[knighthawk]

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[Paloma_55]

As much as I hate to say it, Israel will not *win* the war because it is like trying to kill cockroaches with a hammer.

There are too many of them and they breed too fast and there are too many cracks and crevices to hide in.

Israel can reduce their numbers, make it harder for them to inflict injury upon Israelis, and secure the border areas, but they can't win without the same level of force that we used against Japan in 1945.

They will need to shock these guys into realizing that a continuous state of war is bad for them...the only way to do that is to hit them so hard they don't know their own names.

[Dark Skies]

bttt

[Eagles6]

Very well put.

[C210N]

There is a big problem with a cease fire: It gives Iran "Safe Harbor" for their nuclear weapons program. Its hard to imagine the strike by Israel or the US, hinted at over the past year or two as a possibility, occurring AFTER a UN Cease fire in Lebanon.

[yoe]

"Those who have visited any Hezbollah installation in Lebanon over the years always remark on the fact that there are families, women and children, in and around the place. "Secret" bases are usually hidden in plain site. Houses or apartment buildings become weapons storage or even operations centers. An innocent shed or garage may contain a Toyota or a missile launcher."

"Seldom, if ever, has a guerrilla movement been able to so openly and exquisitely weave itself into the fabric of a society as Hezbollah has done in Lebanon."

Second Amendment? I don't think so.............

[Tolik]

Nailed It!
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[Personal Responsibility]

This new war strategy of dropping leaflets broadcasting attacks has to be the dumbest thing ever thought up. The people who are against whatever military action the leaflets are about disregard it and complain anyway.

All they do is provide the enemy time to duck and cover, or worse setup ambushes. It needs to stop. War needs to be violent, messy and destructive otherwise it will never end. Once war is declared the only way to win it is to kill all of the enemy or break their will so that they surrender. Being kind to them flies in the face of both objectives.


Whichever Clintonoid thought up that idea needs to be put behind a desk in the remotest outpost we have.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

"The perversity of today's international outcry lies in the fact that there is indeed a disproportion in this war, a radical moral asymmetry between Hezbollah and Israel: Hezbollah is deliberately trying to create civilian casualties on both sides while Israel is deliberately trying to minimize civilian casualties, also on both sides."

BINGO.
There is no moral equivalence. Proportionality is for losers. There is no substitute for victory.

[poobear]

Thank you for posting this knighthawk. I ran across this a minute ago and almost posted it myself. Charles nails it (again)!

[sinkspur]

Brilliant.

[Gritty]

[FlyVet]

I watch a different Alphabet Network newscast every night and the message is the same. It might start out showing that Katushas fell on Israeli neighborhood, and then show a casualty or two. Then, it switches to a neighborhood in Lebanon, and spends a great deal more time showing Israeli bomb damage and "civilian" casualties. The message with which we are to be brainwashed is "disproportionate response," and that Israel is the bad guy because it is defending itself with too much vigor. The mediots are now obsessed with it. They want to see more proportionate response, and endless Peace Process. It will never solve anything, but it gives them enough steady tragedy to keep their ratings adequate, which is more important than a few thousand Jewish or Lebanese lives.

[Real Cynic No More]

When one is wantonly attacked by an aggressor, one has every right - legal and moral - to carry the fight until the aggressor is disarmed and so disabled that it cannot threaten one's security again.

All the pro-Israel pundits and authors scream that Israel has the legal and moral right to respond appropriately. But where is the hue and cry that they also have an obligation to do so, so as to prevent having to do so again and again and again?

[NYC Republican]

Excellent analysis!

[bitt]

best on today's stack of stuff.