Posted on 09/28/2024 5:45:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Friday evening in the Levant, Israel targeted buildings in the southern suburbs of Beirut killing Hezbollah General Secretary Hassan Nasrallah. This operation represents a dramatic shift in Israeli strategy. Not only have they finally liquidated an adversary they’ve long been capable of killing, they’ve also turned a deaf ear to their superpower patron of more than half a century. But at this stage, heeding Washington’s advice in war is like taking counsel from the angel of death. Just as the U.S. is no longer willing or able to win the wars it commits Americans to fight, the Joe Biden administration won’t let U.S. allies win wars either.
By ordering the strike on Nasrallah while attending the U.N. General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underscored the Jewish state’s independence from the global consensus that has resolved not to confront terrorists but rather to appease them, whether they’re plotting in the Middle East or living among the local populations of Western nations, including the United States. Israel’s attack also shows that almost everything U.S. and other Western civilian and military leaders have believed about the Middle East for the last 20 years was simply a collection of excuses for losing wars. The questions that senior policymakers and Pentagon officials, think-tank experts and journalists have deliberated over since the invasion of Iraq—questions about the nature of modern warfare and the proper conduct of international relations in a multipolar world, etc.—can now be set aside for good because they have been resolved definitively.
The answers are as they ever were—at least before the start of the “global war on terror.” Contrary to the convictions of George W. Bush-era neoconservatives and the pro-Iran progressives in Barack Obama’s camp, securing a nation’s peace has nothing to do with winning narratives, or nation-building, or balancing U.S. allies against your mutual enemies for the sake of regional equilibrium, or any of the other academic theories generated to mask a generation’s worth of failure. Rather, it means killing your enemies, above all those who advocate and embody the causes that inspire others to exhaust their murderous energies against you. Thus, killing Nasrallah was essential.
Taking down officers demoralizes a force. Wiping out its chain of command cripples it. Hezbollah is a function of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, and if allowed to survive the Lebanese militia will be replenished and trained by the IRGC to replace the fallen. Nasrallah issued from a different source. He was the protégé of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. Their tenures—until now—were roughly coterminous: Khamenei replaced the founder of the Islamic Republic Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989 and chose Nasrallah to lead Hezbollah in 1992. The Iranians built around Nasrallah not only a network of proxies stretching from the eastern Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf but also a comprehensive worldview—permanent resistance. Killing him marks a defining moment capping the end of a 30-year reign of terror.....SNIP
“Yallah ya Nasrallah” with Lyrics and translation
by Frishman and The Strikers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PTdNeOMXno
From the article: “But since the delay coincided with unprecedented developments in the U.S. domestic arena—a president retired from active duty and a vice president campaigning for the top spot by hiding from the press—the Israelis seized the opportunity to lay siege to Hezbollah while the Oval Office was effectively vacant.”
Once again, it takes a niche publication to point out what is obvious to most on the Right but unable to earn mention by the Dem-enablers in the lickspittle press: that the Oval Office is effectively vacant (much like the Democrat candidate’s brain pan).
You only have to question, what if there’s no war and what would the impact be to existing companies? Then follow the money....and the politicians.
How do you move old inventory? How do you justify the development of new weapons? How do you justify an entire industry if there’s no wars?
Hopefully he transitioned into a pink mist. May he rest in pieces. Tiny pieces.
And you just keep killing the new ones as soon as they appear. You must also track down the sponsors and kill them too.
"If you kill enough of them, they will stop fighting" (Gen Curtis LeMay)
That may indeed mean killing all of them. As in genocide. Expulsion of an entire population works too. It has been done successfully in the Middle East region and more than once. It is the ultimate "solution" to intractable conflict.
Nobody should expect that this is easy. It is brutal, ugly work that permanently and unfavorably changes the people who resist terrorist incursions. It changes their society as well.
Is America still fighting Nazis and Imperial Japanese? Didn’t killing them just make more of them?
I would say one difference is that Nazis and Imperial Japanese were confined to one country.
Muslims are everywhere.
New York Times says:
Mr. Nasrallah played a peripheral role in the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983, killing 241 U.S. servicemen
LASER FOCUSED.... IDF IS AMAZING
The Israelis are doing The Lord’s work, plain and simple.
Right on.
OK, thanks for that info.
We killed enough of them, and they stopped fighting.
A worked example of the LeMay proposition.
BTW, genocide was most definitely on the table, especially with reference to the Japanese. Fortunately for us, we did not need to take things that far.
If they intend an us or them proposition, let it be them.
I think the author was referencing legitimate, declared enemies during a shooting war, not political and idea opponents within a republic.
The russians started having commies infiltrate US government in the stalin years through WWII which was pretty easy for them since we were allying with them. McCarthy wised up to it, but not enough came of that and we haven’t really won a war since. Chinese have been following suit since viet nam.
I wish the IDF were guarding President Trump.
Americas military knows how to win wars.We just need politicians to take the leash off of them and stop the political interference.
no. Israel *reminds* America how they won wars and won the peace.
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