Posted on 04/09/2002 7:58:36 AM PDT by Edward Watson
It pains me to see President Bush acting like a hypocrite. All Israel is doing is following his advice in the war against terrorism. If suicide bombings, drive-by shootings and mortal and missile attacks against civilian populations aren't terrorism, what in the world is?
Why is it ok for the US to go half-way around the world, bomb the hell out of the Afghans, kill thousands of terrorists AND innocent civilians and STILL occupy Afghanistan six months later; but it's not ok for Israel to go in its back yard, kill several hundred terrorists and a few dozen innocent civilians and occupy the land for a few weeks????
Isn't this the height of hypocrisy?
Here's the United States, placing multi-million dollar bounties on Mullar Omar and Osama bin Laden's heads and repeatedly trying to get them, DEAD or alive; but at the same time demand Israel not harm a hair on a similar terrorist criminal's (Yasser Arafat) head???
In case anyone's forgotten, Israel seems to be the only nation not allowed to defend itself. It's 400+ dead are comparable to over 20,000 American lives due to a Jewish population 50 times smaller than the total US population. Frankly, Israel has a greater right to destroy the Palestinian terrorists than the United States has of destroying the Al Queda terrorists.
Why is President Bush appeasing the Arabs? Does he need another Sept 11 before waking up from this fantasy that Islamist Arabs are our friends? What are the excuses for his demands on Israel? The "Arab Street" will explode; a new Arab-Israeli war will break out; our 'friendly' Arab allies are going to be overthrown; we won't be able to overthrow Saddam.
Each of these threats are merely paper tigers. There's no real teeth to them.
We've seen the same so-called "Arab Street" during the beginning of the war in Afghanistan. They riot for a few days and then go home and watch their favorite Steven Seagal movie while drinking Coke and eating Pizza Hut.
No Arab country is stupid enough to risk war with Israel. They remember the routs of the past and Israel's military is so much stronger and better these days while theirs are weaker.
As for the overthrowing of our "Friendly Arab Allies"; this is perhaps the biggest piece of horse manure. Our so-called allies, primarily, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, are responsible for producing the largest number of Islamic terrorists in the world. The Saudis build Islamic schools and mosques all over the world, where hatred against America and Israel are taught. The Saudi-financed schools and mosques are the primary source of religious intolerance in the world and have distorted the minds of millions of Muslim men, making them susceptible to recruitment as terrorists. Saudi Arabia is also one of the most anti-Christian nations in the world. One can be flogged for merely having a cross on one's necklace. One can't even bring a Bible or have non-Islamic religious services in the privacy of one's home. Any Muslim who converts to Christianity is beheaded. Finally, 16 of the 19 Sept 11 hijackers were Saudis. Egypt is a cesspool of misery, hatred and corruption. Its media is probably the world's premiere source of anti-Semitism. Kuwaitis are ingrates, who would sooner spit in the eyes of visiting Americans than thank them for giving them back their country a mere decade ago. With friends like these; who needs enemies? Why not let these regimes be overthrown? Perhaps democracy and freedom will get a chance to flourish. After all, what could other Islamist radicals say or do against us that can exceed the propaganda and actions of our current "friendly Arab allies"?
The claim that the US needs Arab allies for any assault against Saddam is absurd. There are already vast areas within Iraq itself that are under US control. Even if there weren't, the US has numerous aircraft carriers from which to launch airstrikes. The US can easily conduct amphibious or paratroop landings on Iraq. Did the Allies in WWII need allies in continental Europe before attempting D-Day in Normandy? Did the US need allies on location before General MacAuthur landed in Leyte?
If the war on terrorism has taught us anything, it has taught us the Islamist Arabs are masters of propaganda and rhetoric. The US should just "Do what is right, let the consequences follow, battle for freedom in spirit and might!"
What do you mean by "tolerate"? Sharon doesn't seem to be in a very "tolerant" state of mind.
Only because he got away with it longer. Did we do the world a net good by removing Hitler and keeping Stalin? Should we make a similiar decision in today's world?
You are way wrong on this -- way off and here's why:
- We need arab ports for resupply and to get tanks into Iraq--Yes there will be tanks needed
- We need arab all the countries surrounding Iraq to approve us flying over their air space
- We need arab support to base troops because we don't have anyplace big enough
- We need someplace to base A10's and Apache Helos.. We need these tank killers close by !
- We need arab support to conduct rescue missions when some of our aircraft get shot down (We do this with helos)
- We don't have enough aircraft carriers to sustain bombing forever..We need to base F117, F22 fighters etc.
- We need refueling ports (Arab) to refuel ships because Clinton de-funded refueling ships
- We will need staging areas for our airborne or whoever we decide to send in
I can go on and on but the fact is we need the arabs to take on Iraq and the more
we piss the arabs off the less likely it will be we can take on Saddam. What Israel is doing now is counter
to the USA getting all of the above. It's not about Bush doing a reversal or backtracking.
It's his military planners telling him what they need to go in to Iraq and the State Dept telling him what the arab countries
want in order for us to use their air space, bases, ports etc. to go in after Saddam.
You all can support Israel all you want and stomp your conservative chests all you want but the fact
remains we need the arabs to do what we have to do and after that we can tell the arabs to go to hell !
It's pure LOGISTICS !
No you're wrong.
Saddam is the main threat to both the Israel and the USA. It's not Rag Bag Yasser that threatens Israel it's the money and support behind the scenes. Take Yasser out along with his cronies and more will keep pooping up as long as there is pressure from the outside. Taking out Saddam removes most of this pressure !
There are many Arabs living in Israel that aren't terrorists and they live free - why ?
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