Posted on 07/31/2006 5:09:06 AM PDT by SJackson
America and Israel are going to lose the war in Lebanon, and the American Left will have a lot to answer for.
The United States and Israel and every sentient being in the path of the Islamist crusade are teetering on the brink of a massive defeat in Lebanon and thus in the war on terror. Lest it be forgotten, this is a war that began with the Ayatollahs’ revolution in Iran in 1979 which established the first radical Islamic state whose masters’ war cry was “Death to America” and the establishment of a global Islamic empire. Nearly thirty years later, Iran is on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons and its imperial war is now being waged on Iran’s Lebanese frontier by its Hezbollah proxy. One month into the fighting which began with the attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah on the state of Israel, the scenario for the West’s defeat in this phase of the war is quite obvious and quite simple.
The appeasers of Islamofascism, who have been calling for a ceasefire and bewailing “civilian casualties” in Lebanon and Gaza, will succeed. Hezbollah will agree to turn over its arms to the pro-Hezbollah Lebanese army. The pro-Hezbollah UN will establish a security zone on Lebanon’s southern border to keep the area clear of non-government militias, of which the Hezbollah “militia” is the only one. The credulous in the Western camp will greet this as a victory for the peacemakers. But exactly the opposite will be the case.
According to a recent poll in Lebanon eighty percent of the Lebanese Arabs support Hezbollah. In other words, just as Hamas, which was created by the same Muslim Brotherhood that spawned al-Qaeda, is now the Palestinian government, so Hezbollah will emerge as the government of Lebanon. The Lebanese army will become the new Hezbollah “militia.” Only it won’t be a militia. It will be the terrorist army of a sovereign power, with the right to openly negotiate its arms deals with Syria and Iran. The next battle with Iran, in other words, will be World War III.
In fact, the next battleground in the spread of Shi’ia fascism is already in progress and aflame. It is Iraq, where Iran’s Shi’ia armies are already in the field under the command of the sheik of Sadr City, the America-hating cleric Moqtadar al-Sadr. 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.
But the first battle of Fallujah is only one of many defeats inflicted by the appeasers and abettors of Islamic imperialism in the West. The aid to the enemy within the Western camp has taken many forms, beginning with the hysterical and reckless attacks on the commander-in-chief of America’s forces as a liar and murderer, and the source of the terror that the Islamists create. Are there terrorists in Iraq? There were none there before George Bush created them. Is Hezbollah a Nazi army? It’s because the Jews “occupied” Palestinian lands. Of course, this is two lies in one. All Israeli “occupation” is the product of four aggressive Arab wars against Israel. When Israel withdraws – as in Lebanon – it is attacked. The source of the terror in Lebanon, as in Iraq, is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle East. But the appeasement camp cannot face the reality that its enemy is implacable and its hatred uncaused by anything its targets – Jews, Christians, “infidels” – have done.
The division of America is the greatest threat to our ability to prevail in the War on Terror – and the Left knows this and is incited by it. America is not divided enough for the American Left, which is now in full purge mode in Connecticut, where it is attempting to bring down the one statesman in the Democratic Party who might re-unite this country in the face of its enemies.
Those who in the midst of these wars clamor for ceasefires with an implacable foe, those who call for withdrawals that would leave sovereign states in the hands of the terrorist forces, those who decry civilian casualties caused by the only forces in this war who do not target civilians, those Blame-America-Firsters who exploit the Abu Ghraibs on our side and not their atrocities, those whose hysterical fear of the conflict we face takes the form of pathological denial and projects the rabid hatred of the enemy for us onto our own commander in the war, are destined to have a lot to answer for before this conflict is over.
With all due respect, there was already an "armed military UN backed buffer force" in South Lebanon -- UNIFIL -- which was there to "guarantee security" for Israel.
However, UNIFIL saw Hezbollah arming itself and building fortified strong points...and did absolutely nothing about it. UNIFIL was still "in place" when this war began!
Any multi-national force cannot be a UN operation.
Yes, he is mixing up Al-Sadr with what happened in Fallujah, but they were distinct events -- though if IIRC it all went down about the same time, April 2004??, when the Sunni terrorists in Fallujah were going nuts and Mookie tried to take advantage of the situation by pushing in Najaf, etc. I think, IIRC, that Horowitz is wrong to conflate Fallujah with what Mookie was up to, but still correct in the overall point that it was political correctness that caused us to restrain our forces in both situations. One thing we still don't know (or at least I don't) is what the internal discussions were like between the interim Iraqi leaders and US officers and officials in-country, i.e., maybe a lot of the restrain came from Iraqi leaders who said they would break with the USA if we came down hard on Fallujah and Mookie, etc. That's not to say we shouldn't have done it, but we may not be talking only about our domestic left causing the restraint........
Israel is locked into a generational war of attrition,
Western civilization, not just Israel
No. UNIFIL was essentially an unarmed observer mission.
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, UNIFIL, is one of the UN’s oldest peacekeeping operations. Its nearly 2,000 troops and 50 unarmed military observers are tasked with seeking to maintain a ceasefire along the 70-mile (121 km) United Nations “Blue Line” between Israel and Lebanon, by patrolling, observing, reporting violations and liaising with the parties.
UNIFIL was established in 1978 by the United Nations Security Council (Resolution 425). The Council authorized “a United Nations interim force for Southern Lebanon for the purpose of confirming the withdrawal of Israeli forces, restoring international peace and security and assisting the Government of Lebanon in ensuring the return of its effective authority in the area….”
See, a pasive force, no military enforcement at all.
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/unifil/factsheet.pdf
I've been reading a book called 'The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam' and it seems that history with respect to Islam has been repeating itself for the past 13 centuries. Deals and cease-fires just don't work. When Ann Coulter joked about invading their countries, killing their leaders and converting them to Christianity, she was making a pretty good point.
My mistake; they weren't armed. But the rest of my response was correct.
Any other UN force, armed or not, will prove just as useless.
Maybe we can build a stairway to the moon also.
I say it wont.
You say the IFD has the means and capability to carry it out I say they don't.
But what ever we say will have no effect on the situation.
So thanks for the debate it was interesting.
God Willing will be back in six months time to maybe continue
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