Posted on 03/22/2004 4:44:03 AM PST by SJackson
His father was killed in a terrorist attack in the mid 1970s. If his father's death didn't direct him into a different line of work, it's unlikely his son's death will.
Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of that little factoid. I reckon there weren't really any lessons in this episode, then.
I think that this was a 'dumb' move. Not sure how this takes them one step closer to eliminating the problem. It will only make more terrorists out of that rat hole over there.
What are they going to do? Kill Israeli civilians and political leaders? Kidnap soldiers and torture them to death? Would they call for genocide? Would they attack Jewish targets oversees? They will do all these things. However, they already do these things!
I don't think that Sharon is all the bright. He's the one who got them in the mess in Lebanon, by invading all the way to Beirut.
1. Had Sharon not been stopped by the US, the PLO would have been destroyed and Lebanon freed from Syria.
2. Sharon led divisions in 1967 and 1973 that encircled and destroyed Egyptian armies. He is one of the best armor generals in the last century.
Sharon was also the one to ignite the most recent debacle facing Israel when he led that march onto that holy place in Jerusalem.
The first attacks occured before Sharon got PLO permission to go to the Temple Mount.
This 'assasination' only points to their lack of any credible military option on the table, which is what they should be considering.
I agree. Expell all of Gaza to Egypt.
Don't be so quick to jump to such a stretch. I'm on your side on the important issue (eliminating them). My only objection is one of 'tactic' not on 'objective'.
It seems like such a 'pin-prick' move, more of the 'tit-for-tat' tactic they've been doing against these terrorists, doing nothing more than getting them more riled up, when they should be taking a more 'total war' against the entire Palestinian terrorist command structure, i.e, the entire Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Alhksa Martyrs, etc..., a total daily attack against them, dawn to dusk and thru the night until they have the entire structure eliminated.
I don't know...I think this Yassin guy was a pretty important terrorist, which makes it a lot more than pin prick.
your quote: "I don't know...I think this Yassin guy was a pretty important terrorist, which makes it a lot more than pin prick."
I am VINDICATED!
Here is a new post/article exactly CONFIRMING what the point I was trying to make...
"When will Israel launch an "Operation End Of Story"? When will enough Jews have been killed to justify militarily defeating the likes of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa Brigades?"
"The kind of pinpoint, nitpick response the cabinet approved following Ashdod is not a whole lot better than the nothing the PA was doing. The terrorists are still there, still operating, still plotting the slaughter of Israel's Jews.
Just posted HERE
Yeah, I think I agree with this. Would the Israelis have already done it if we hadn't held them back all these years? If they had, would we be having a problem with Al Qaeda today I wonder. I think we wouldn't. If one group is allowed to survive, then another can also take life.
My impression is that GW himself wants to pretty much treat the terrorists as you describe, but he seems to want Israel to hold back a little. Although that is maybe just what he shows for public consumption.
Meanwhile the Left, and even some on the Right, seem to think you can separate the terror groups, go after just Al Qaeda for instance, and not worry so much about the ones that aren't bothering us. Which is very wrong, IMO, let one live and it lets the others know that terrorism can work. Not to mention that all the Islamic terrorists are cut from the same bolt of cloth anyway, and are brothers in arms, so to speak. If one group is allowed to survive, others will also spring up and take life. When you want to stamp out a disease, you get it all, not just one case of it.
The truth is, I think, that we have allowed the existence of terror in order to stay on the good side of the oil producing monarchies, elements of which either sympathize with the terrorists or are willing to finance them in an attempt at appeasement. The whole thing is an exercise in folly and corruption.
Yeah, doing nothing, I think, is a choice as well. One that's guaranteed to keep us in danger. Not sure if the Europeans don't see this or don't care, or are just sticking their heads in the sand.
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