Posted on 07/15/2006 11:24:32 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
:) I can't believe they would even bother to issue the statement. They know we don't believe them.
That's gotta be about two minutes worth of oil production...
I'm surprised they could say it with a straight face.
This is what the jihadists count on...the world community will immediately demand an end to conflict as soon as one side (especially Israel) dominates the terrain.
We're always told how---after the Beirut, Cole and Mogadishu disasters---the islamofascists concluded we wouldn't fight.
But I've always believed there was a more relevant and significant incident that gave them solace. Remember the "Highway of Death" at the end of the Persian Gulf War? We had Saddam's Republican Guard bottled up on the highway out of Kuwait. Our pilots were picking them off like fish in a barrel. It would have taken only a couple of days to eliminate them entirely.
But Bush the elder anticipated the world's horror at such a show of force and knew there would be condemnations---even though no Iraqi surrender had been tendered. At best, the world will only tolerate U.S. and Israeli power as long as we're losing or at a draw. As soon as it's clear we're dominating (and on the verge of destroying the threat), then the world says it must stop.
The jihadists reasonably concluded the world will always step in to save them from a total loss. And they were right...up til now. Though such mutterings are heard this time, there's really no heart behind the demands that Israel restrain its attacks. The jihadists are now realizing, too late, that the appeasers have run out of moral authority. Unlike Papa Bush, I think the IDF intends to shoot all those fish in the barrel...once and for all. And the appeasers will privately cheer.
Thanks, Karl!
Latest from Vlad! (Eye Roll Please!)
Putin Thinks Israel 'Pursuing Wider Goals' President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that he thinks Israel is pursuing wider goals in its military campaign against Lebanon than the return of its captured soldiers. "However complicated the questions are, maximum efforts must be applied to resolve the situation in a peaceful way and I think all efforts have not been exhausted," Putin said. "However, it is our impression that aside from seeking to return the abducted soldiers, Israel is pursuing wider goals."
When even Hillary Clinton is on record as saying yesterday that Israel has a right to defend herself, I think the jihadists can't count on the appeasers this time.
ROFLOL!
Hillary knows to stay away from the moonbats on this one.
Call me cynical, but she has a lot of Jewish constituents. Besides wait until her husband opens his big fat mouth.
A few minutes ago CNN posted a headline that US evacuation wasn't imminent.
Putin of course has no ulterior motives in anything he does.
CNN is giving an overview of the situation since it's so "confusing". Hezbollah means "Hand of God" (or something like that. No mention, not one, that they are a terrorist group.
Remember all the grief she got for the kiss with Mrs. Arafat?
Well of course not. /s ;)
CNN doesn't want to offend it's overseas viewers.
Next thing you know someone will claim he tried to fix the Ukrainian elections.
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