Posted on 02/03/2006 8:49:21 AM PST by Tolik
The only thing that will work with these people is to start killing them and to keep killing them until they give up. I suspect only extermination will do it.
Fair enough. I have run across people here who claim that we shouldn't have provided the Soviets with assistance since Commies are as bad as Nazis.
I can't argue with the sentiment, except that the Nazis were much more competent economically and militarily than the Soviets and were therefore a greater threat to America. It often makes sense to ally with a lesser threat to defeat a greater. I think that general principle applies to WWII.
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Great piece by Mr. Krauthammer, but avoids the elephant in the room: What do we do with these murderous barbarians, other than not give them checks anymore?
Unfortunately, I am as pessimistic as you are.
Nailed it. Ten-ring.
Let's not make the same mistake we made in Iraq with ANY subsidy. You subsidize people of good will. Nothing comes from subsidizing people of bad will but bad results. The Palestinians are still unsophisticated and thus their choice might be understood, but should not be condoned. The subsidies should be used as a carrot for them to make the transition from bad to good.
Thanks for the ping!
That's enough, right? Just cut them all off 100%, let Israel finish their wall, and then let the Palis rot forever behind it. I've been saying exactly this for years. I'm glad the Palis are "cooperating".
I would not want to make that point, regardless of how evil Stalin was. At their peak in early '43 the Germans had nearly 195 Divisions on the Eastern Front. If the Soviets had collapsed the Germans would have been able to move nearly 100 Divisions back west and the Americans and British would have suffered even greater casualties and D-Day would certainly have been a failure.
Of course in hindsight I'm with Patton, we should have never have stopped. But politically and with the exhausted state of nearly everyones army by '45 that just would not have been feasible.
And that means cutting off Hamas completely: no recognition, no negotiation, no aid, nothing. And not just assistance to a Hamas government, but all assistance. The Bush administration suggests continuing financial support for ``humanitarian'' services. This is a serious mistake.First, because money is fungible. Every dollar we spend for Palestinian social services is a dollar freed up for a Hamas government to purchase rockets, guns and suicide belts for the ``Palestinian army'' that Meshal has already declared he intends to build.
Second, because it sends the Palestinians precisely the wrong message. If they were under a dictatorship that imposed rejectionism upon them, there would be a case for helping a disenfranchised Palestinian people. But they just held the most open and honest exercise of democracy in Palestinian history. The Palestinian people chose. However much they love victimhood, they are not victims here. They are actors. And historical actors have to take responsibility.
They want blood and death and romance? They will get nothing. They choose peace and coexistence? Then, as President Bush pledged in June 2002, they will get everything: world recognition, financial assistance, their own state with independence and dignity.
In August 2001, Hamas sent a suicide bomber into a Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem. He killed 15 innocent Israelis, mutilating many dozens more. A month later, Hamas student activists at al-Najah University in Nablus celebrated the attack with an exhibit, a mockup of the smashed Sbarro shop strewn with blood and fake body parts -- a severed leg, still dressed in jeans; a human hand dangling from the ceiling. The inscription (with a reference to the Qassam military wing of Hamas) read: ``Qassami Pizza is more delicious.''
The correct term for such a mentality is not militance, not extremism, but moral depravity. The world must advise the Palestinian people that if their national will is to embrace Hamas -- its methods and its madness -- then their national will is simply too murderous and, yes, too depraved for the world to countenance, let alone subsidize.
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