Posted on 07/31/2006 5:09:06 AM PDT by SJackson
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
It's interesting that Mr Horowitz already has Israel losing the "war". I don't think I agree with him other that the part about a divided America.
Israel is locked into a generational war of attrition, neither side has the means to win decisively.
There is only one place where this war is to be decided and that is Iraq.
If we can build a stable democratic relatively peaceful Iraq, then we will send a real message to the other two rogue states Syria and Iran.
At the moment they see us bogged down in Iraq, and if we cannot create a stable Iraq we are less inclined to go for a direct regime change in Syria and Iran, but if we do declare a victory there it will have the following benefits.
1) It is possible to directly enact regime change .
2)It will free up resources for the next stage.
And with the experience we have garnered we will not make as many of the same mistakes.
I would target Iran next, Syria will fall without Iran, and without Iran and Syria, the Palestinians Hezzballa and other terrorist organistions will have to come to the conclusion that the armed struggle is not going to last and they will have to find peaceful means with dealing with Israel
If true, this is worrying me no end.
Unfortunately Horowitz is wrong. If we fail in Iraq and Israel fails in Lebanon the left will be able to claim victory. The sheeple won't take the time or devote the intellectual energy required to sort out the details. They will simply assume Bush and the conservatives were in charge and they failed.
The Jewish left in America is also responsible for the left having any say in American politics. Sad, really..
Al-Sadr, it should be noted, is alive and in the field because the appeasers in this country, beginning with the Democratic Party but extending into the Bush State Department, stymied the first battle of Fallujah when al-Sadr was trapped and could have been killed and his militia destroyed. The Bush administration had to delay the attack until after Kerry’s defeat in the November 2004 elections in order to avoid the political complications that would have attended the battle in the midst of an election campaign.
I hope I'm not giving away any secrets, but I see it a different way.
There will be war with Syria and Iran.
This operation is the first part of it, and it's objective is to secure Israels northern flank from infantry and Katusha attack from Lebanon.
Ultimately, an armed military UN backed buffer force will be inserted in South Lebanon. Any attacks on it will be seen as an attack on the UN. Hopefully, as many nationalities as possible will contribute. Those Nations will find it very difficult to withdraw their troops from a UN mandated mission. Hopefully Israel will be guaranteed security by the UN as part of it.
When this part is complete, the next stages will be the removal of Assad from the Syrian scene (by one means or another), and military action against Iran.
If we are to believe NPR and the other gleeful pollsters, Bush's effective presidency will end with the November election. Therfore he should take advantage of his time left to inflict maximum damage on our enemies before the cringing Democrats close the spigot.
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They're only going to lose because it appears they are going to allow diplomatic pressure to cause them to stop. It's hard to square the notion that Israel has to fight this war because the Jewish State is in mortal danger with their statements that they will not launch a massive ground invasion.
I hate to say it. but it is starting to appear that Israel has soundly smacked the tar baby.
how many times does Islam have to declare war before people listen?
I'm amazed.
Good grief. The leftist majority is so far left that people like Horowitz are bamboozled into thinking that a lib like Lieberman is a statesman.
You said: "If we can build a stable democratic relatively peaceful Iraq, "
Maybe we can build a stairway to the moon also.
We are dealing with Muslims here, not rational people.
Israel has the means to win decisively, more to the point is do they have the will to make it happen. The so-called world opinion is also something Israel considers when dealing with this. Look at the outcry over a few dead future terrorists and the progenitors of future terrorists.
They've been pulling the strings since Jefferson, a mason.
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