An Alternate Road Map

The Conning Tower ^ | Aug. 25, 2003 | Trentino

[Optimist]

Israel has offensive capabilities that haven't been seen in decades ... and new tactics and equipment to be utilized way before the threat, let alone use, of nuclear weapons. Short of the Samson Option, I don't expect Israel to be nuking any time soon.

[Valin]

A. Trentino
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

[Paul_B]

What a complete idiot. Period.

[section9]

This is bilge.

It is appropriate to point out the weaknesses of the Road Map to hell.

It is beyond foolishness to propose that Israel use nuclear weapons against Arab cities without cause.

And please don't pretend to tell us that Palestinian terrorism is due cause to use nuclear weapons.

Trentino wins three Batboys for the sheer, unadulterated idiocy of this article:

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Mackey]

The third most important historical site, this place? It's importance is a recent phenom.

The third most important holy site, made so by anti-Israeli arabs building up the importance of the so-called "Furthest Mosque" referred to in Mohammed's Night Journey fantasy (which did not actually exist at the time of the imagined journey).

[hrhdave]

You guys think name-calling is a substitute for argument" You think posting ghoulish picture is the equivalent of rational conversation?

Even since its founding in the seventh century, Islam has been at war with the West, with Christianity. You can look it up, you know. The history books will tell you why Bosnia is Muslim and that the Ottoman Turks were stopped from enslaving Europe--forcibly converting Christians to Islam at the gates of Vienna in 1653. Islam is on the warpath again.

The blasts of explosives in Bali, Africa, at the Marine Barracks in Beirut, at the WTC in New York and the Pentagon, and the USS Cole aren't mythical. We are at war with Islam, and we better win.

There's nothing flaky about Trentino's scenario--which is probably why you people resort to name-calling. It's time to be serious.

[Valin]

I can't speak for the oyhers but when I see something as world-class stupid as this piece of rambleing tripe I am forced to fall back on name calling.

[Paul_B]

His prescription is completely flakey because there are lower-level solutions he skips over - namely, dealing more definitively with the Pals themselves. It's irresponsible and immoral to drag in other nations unless necessary. By doing so, Israel would lose the moral high ground, and world opinion with it. Even her friends, few as they are, would be hard-pressed to defend her actions. Much ground would be lost.

[hrhdave]

>>It's irresponsible and immoral to drag in other nations unless necessary. <<

Those other nationas are the suppliers, moneybags, aiders and abettors of the bus-bombers. Time to strike them--hard.

It's imperative that Israel not let the "moral high ground" you speak seve as a graveyard. You don't lose your moral high ground by killing your mortal enemies. You affirm it.

[hrhdave]

Here's are some of many Arab-Muslim declarations of the War of Extermination.

Earlier this summer, Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi declared, "By G-d, we will not leave one Jew in Palestine (meaning Israel as well as the territories)," justifying his pledge by claiming, "This is our land, not the Jews'." Last year, the leader of Hizbollah, Hassan Nassrallah, mused, "If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide." And Hizbollah's protector, the Syrian government, is no less open about its desire to kill all Jews. Syria's Minister of Defense, Mustapha Tlass, opined in a television interview two years ago that if "every Arab killed a Jew, no Jews would remain," and added that he personally wanted "to kill any Jew he faced."

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0803/mowbray_2003_08_28.php3

The appropriate response of Israel is to kill their enemy before the enemy gathers the strength to match his murderous intentions. It's called "self-defence."

[Desecrated]

If the situation was reversed and the Arab countries had the nukes, do you think they would be bound by the moral "high ground?" Since they flat out say NO, the answer is clear.