Posted on 09/29/2024 1:43:02 PM PDT by Freeleesy
Charismatic doesn’t mean “nice.” Hitler was charismatic. Stalin was as well. They were evil…but they captured a room.
Using words accurately should not come under attack.
Astute observations. After reading it I thought to myself, that read like a thoughtful FR post of days past and sure enough, with a sign up date of 1999, you’re an old time poster. Thanks again for your comments.
The IDF said, 'nuh-uh.'
That could describe many pastors I knew. It’s not a compliment.
What’s the problem with this?
He was both charismatic and shrewd. So was Hitler.
When I read comments here about foreign countries, everything is about the leader of the moment, and if he is “good” or “bad”.
This is a childlike way of thinking about alien peoples and their affairs.
Israel is at war with Palestinians and their friends, just like Ukraine is at war with Russia.
In the fullness of time, one side will win these wars and one side will lose. Believing that killing a leader or leaders is the same as winning a war is being really, really simple.
It’s pretty easy to capture a room if your audience understands they will be shot if they don’t cheer and applaud vigorously.
Yeah, my FR 25th birthday is coming up soon.
Thanks for the compliment!
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Nasrallah has also repeatedly vowed to destroy Israel. “It is an aggressive, illegal and illegitimate entity, which has no future in our land,”
“The US has tried, through its local agents, to persuade the people that those who crushed their arrogance in Lebanon and frustrated their conspiracy against the oppressed were nothing but a bunch of fanatic terrorists whose sole aim is to dynamite bars and destroy slot machines. Such suggestions cannot and will not mislead our umma (community), for the whole world knows that whoever wishes to oppose the US, that arrogant superpower, cannot indulge in marginal acts which may make it deviate from its major objective. We combat abomination and we shall tear out its very roots, its primary roots, which are the US. All attempts made to drive us into marginal actions will fail, especially as our determination to fight the US is solid.”
No one can imagine the importance of our military potential as our military apparatus is not separate from our overall social fabric. Each of us is a fighting soldier.
Our culture is crystal clear. It is not complicated and is accessible to all.
We see in Israel the vanguard of the United States in our Islamic world. It is the hated enemy that must be fought until the hated ones get what they deserve. This enemy is the greatest danger to our future generations and to the destiny of our lands, particularly as it glorifies the ideas of settlement and expansion, initiated in Palestine, and yearning outward to the extension of the Great Israel, from the Euphrates to the Nile. Our primary assumption in our fight against Israel states that the Zionist entity is aggressive from its inception, and built on lands wrested from their owners, at the expense of the rights of the Muslim people. Therefore our struggle will end only when this entity is obliterated. We recognize no treaty with it, no cease fire, and no peace agreements, whether separate or consolidated.
We vigorously condemn all plans for negotiation with Israel, and regard all negotiators as enemies, for the reason that such negotiation is nothing but the recognition of the legitimacy of the Zionist occupation of Palestine.
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/doctrine-hezbollah
That’s true. And if Nasrallah was dumb and low status, then he would never have been in a position to be targeted by Israel. People need a picture of the whole man, to get the full story, IMO.
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