Posted on 07/24/2006 6:06:30 AM PDT by Dark Skies
Hezbollah delenda est. And that goes for its handler, enabler, and patron saint, Iran.
Dear Mr. Meyer: It was none other than Jack Murtha that advised Reagan NOT to retalliate!! And yellow Jack Murtha is VERY proud of that.
ping.
He had me at "Hello"!
I heard Hellzbollah had two or three story underground bunkers. How the hell is Israel supposed to get rid of those? They're going to have to go in man to man unless they can get lots and lots of bunker busters.
How do you obliterate Hezbollah? How can you tell if they're all gone? They aren't a country, they have no borders or cities or infrastructure that you can level. They don't wear uniforms or announce their presence with flags or banners. Cut off the head of the snake and the head just growns right back. Kill everyone who looks suspicious and you just increase their recruiting. Israel can blow up everything standing in southern Lebanon and within 6 months Hezbollah will be back in the area, shelling the northern border as if nothing ever happened.
I liked most of it. Except for the excuse for not paying back Hezbollah for killing our Marines. Naval gunfire would have done the trick nicely, or several dozen fuel air bombs dropped on Hezzie targets. Could have been done in a week or two and the Iran would have got a message that we weren't going to take any cr@p from them. We did similar with Kahdafi.
Luckily, we have a president who will give Israel what it needs.
Hezbollah hides in the middle of women and children. The answer is total war. Think Dresden. Think Curtis LeMay's incindiary campaign against Japan.
Great article, except for the apology for President Reagan's decision not to retaliate.
Coming on the heals of President Carter's failure in Iran, this marked the US as a country that was afraid to confront militant Islam, and today we are paying the consequences.
Ronald Reagan was a great president, but this may have been the single worst Presidential decision of the last quarter-century.
This is the best excuse he can come up with after twenty five years!? Geez, don't even bother.
I agree...big mistake in retrospect.
1) Locate air vent.
2) Pump in generous amounts of JP - 4 (jet fuel).
3) Drop timed ignition device down air vent.
3) Wait at a safe distance until smoke stops pouring out of air vent.
4) Bulldoze over all access points in and out of bunker.
Sometimes, the old tried and true methods perfected by our own beloved USMC in the big one are a handy solution. What worked on Tarawa, Iwo, and Okinawa will work on the Hizbollah scum.
To kill the snake that grows more heads, you have to aim for the heart.
I have always believed that a public statement of the cowardice on the part of these people who refuse to wear uniforms, form up and fight like men would be effective. They are hiding behind women and children, and the world needs to hear that day after day.
Unless you deal death-blows to Iran and their pi$$-boy, Syria... Hezbollah will rise from the ashes again and again.
The problem is not obliterating Hezbollah but the aftermath of such an operation.
Israel can track down the leaders and kill them, but new ones take there place, for every fighter killed a new one takes there place.
Hezbollah was formed after the first Israel invasion of Lebanon, the amount of military action that will be required to eliminate Hezbollah will only breed new recruits or even a new organisation.
What a good read. And what good analogies to other wars. Thanks for the ping.
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