Posted on 08/10/2006 8:58:48 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
Love is a Battlefield
IDF soldier received heart shaped cookie somewhere near the Lebanon border...
WOW....and John Gibson just said that Bush talked for the FIRST TIME since the war started to Olmert a few minutes ago...
Bush must be mad...he even talks to Putin more often than that.
I'm sad to say, Euro, that the EU and other parts of the world are reminding me very much of the 1930's as Churchill warned all who would listen to the danger of the Nazi, and no one listened.
Thank you.
I agree with your comments on Europe. However, as an American, there is little I can do about Europe's decline. I do feel responsible in the international context for the actions of my own government which is why I am deeply disappointed in how we (the US) reacted to Israel's war.
Are you saying we should send U.S. soldiers into Lebanon?
We helped Israel with armaments and political clout. It is not up to us to pick up Israel's fight when Israel chooses not to use the tools they are given to win.
PILLAR of FIRE is the IDF name .
Probably (sigh)
Anchor women now chiding the Israeli ambassador to the US for not defeating Hezbollah.
Lost for words...
Why would Bush be mad? The US could have vetoed this resolution.
So if IDF drops in on the Lit, and then has to leave, are they allowed to shoot their way out?
Or is Hezzie going to line up beside the road in Tux and Tails and yield over a sweeping bow as each IDF unit passes?
LOL...riiiiiiiight.
I guess we'll have to rename this thread to something like (Olmert's coming collapse) because there will now be a fight in the government to decapitate his place of leadership.
Well you'd have to figure someone would have to cave for any sort of a deal to come out the U.N. these days, and somehow I doubt it was France.
What didn't we do that we should have? Would you please articulate that.
Okay, maybe not all possible, but more frankly than I thought we would.
He used it to describe how Israel has fought this war.
"Is that because the resolution does not require the return of Israel's kidnapped soldiers?"
I keep wondering if they know that it is only bodies that will be returned.
Back..had to walk away for a bit:)
I've read a couple of Rosenberg's books..they're good..and realistic. Russia and Iran..no doubt.
I don't agree with you...
I think much of the world thought that Israel had an impressive military force...what do they think now?
And if they don't consider them impressive...why would Hezbollah or Syria worry about about shelling the heck out of them.
I think Irsael has also lost good soldiers that deserved better than the political GAME that Olmert played.
Hez is weaker, just from being beat up for weeks but it's not a permanent sort of thing. Israel will come out weaker because they let a myth be punctured, but they are not our puppet. They are our allies, and if they didn't play their cards right, we couldn't make them.
Hopefully the next government there will have the fortitude to recapture some of that will to survive that the current government lacks.
But until we clean our own political house here and get the left in this country to stop sabotaging the efforts on the WOT and behaving like a fifth column, we are going to have to live with that lack of will to fight hard enough.
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