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Victor Davis Hanson Strange War. Israel is at last being given an opportunity to unload on jihadists
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| July 21, 2006
| Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on 07/21/2006 4:31:21 AM PDT by Tolik
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posted on
07/21/2006 4:31:28 AM PDT
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Tolik
To: neverdem; Lando Lincoln; quidnunc; .cnI redruM; yonif; SJackson; dennisw; monkeyshine; Alouette; ...
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posted on
07/21/2006 4:32:54 AM PDT
by
Tolik
To: Tolik
You know, every time I read another Victor Davis Hanson piece, I can't help thinking,
Pat Buchanon must hate this guy with a white-hot passion.
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posted on
07/21/2006 4:36:54 AM PDT
by
A Balrog of Morgoth
(With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the RINOs in terror before me.)
To: Tolik
Thank you President Bush for running political interference to keep the various Leftists in Europe and the UN off Israels back.
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posted on
07/21/2006 4:39:47 AM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
(Fire Murtha Now! Spread the word. Support Diana Irey. http://www.irey.com/)
To: Tolik
The one thing VDH does not mention is that the nuts are tribal, going back a 1000 years.
Killing 10 to 1 will slow them in the short term.
The long term is how to stop them.
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posted on
07/21/2006 4:44:31 AM PDT
by
llevrok
(Born a ham and never cured.)
To: Tolik
To: Tolik
...a disgusted world secretly wants these terrorists to get what they deserve. And who knows: This time they just might.Extremely hopeful thinking by Prof. Hanson. He makes a good point. Why IS Iran hiding and pretending they aren't involved? Why aren't they piling on since they are so eager to wipe Israel off the map? Hanson's explanations make sense.
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posted on
07/21/2006 4:45:07 AM PDT
by
rhombus
To: Tolik
Let's pray Iran doesn't already have a nuke acquired from Pakistan or Russia and are using all this as a pretext to deploy it. I'm not suggesting they would be stupid enough to launch a missile from Iran to use it. They'd sneak it in by land with no one claiming responsibility for the results. They would simply say it was the will of Allah...
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posted on
07/21/2006 4:46:58 AM PDT
by
DB
(©)
To: rhombus
Perhaps it is because they have been planning this for some time and have brought in WMD into the war zone and don't want to take the reprisals after they are used.
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posted on
07/21/2006 4:49:34 AM PDT
by
DB
(©)
To: llevrok
Killing 10 to 1 will slow them in the short term. The long term is how to stop them.
Repeat line 1 as often as needed.
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posted on
07/21/2006 4:52:35 AM PDT
by
Chuck54
(Ann Coulter was right: Liberals - Born to Run)
To: A Balrog of Morgoth
"What good did you do in your life if you did not earn any enemies?"
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posted on
07/21/2006 4:56:57 AM PDT
by
Tolik
To: Chuck54
But they are ourbreeding Jews and Western democracies 20 to 1. Because of Islamic bloodlust, they are out populating us with future dumbass martyrs.....
My solution...combine ammunition depots with pig farms and create bacon-laden munitions.
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posted on
07/21/2006 5:02:15 AM PDT
by
DCBryan1
( HeadOFF Apply directly to the neck! HeadOFF Apply directly to the neck !(Avail. only from Muslims))
To: Tolik
And for all the efforts of the BBC, Reuters, Western academics, and the horde of appeasers and apologists that usually bail these terrorist killers out when their rhetoric finally outruns their muscle, this time they cant.
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posted on
07/21/2006 5:16:05 AM PDT
by
Obadiah
(I wanted to play Mousetrap. You roll the dice, you move your mice. Nobody gets hurt.)
To: Tolik
Exactly. Terrific summation of the current state of play in the Lebanon Theater from Victor Davis Hanson. Hezbollah thought Israel would probably capitulate as she did in the past or if she struck back hard, they could count on the rest of the world to ride to their rescue. On both counts they miscalculated and their extremism has prevented the West's Islamofascist apologists from helping them out with a ceasefire. The Israelis know this an enemy that does not have the word "compromise" in its lexicon. So it will be a fight to the finish.
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em, Down Hezbullies.)
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posted on
07/21/2006 5:26:25 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: A Balrog of Morgoth
"Pat Buchanan must hate this guy with a white-hot passion."
Not necessarily. They exist in different dimensions.
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posted on
07/21/2006 5:29:12 AM PDT
by
GSlob
To: llevrok
"The long term is how to stop them."
Kill 500 or more to 1.
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posted on
07/21/2006 5:30:31 AM PDT
by
GSlob
To: Tolik
I hope he's right..but I suspect that in the end Israel will be held up short of total victory again. They will beat Hezbollah bloody but instead of being allowed to finish them they be leashed again and have to do it all over again in teh future.
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posted on
07/21/2006 5:50:33 AM PDT
by
Prysson
To: Tolik
Israel is at last being given an opportunity to unload on jihadistsBut they won't. Political forces will probably keep that from happening to any significant extent. I wouldn't pretend to know the mind of God, other what he has inspired his prophets to teach: He made a covenant with the 12 tribes of Isreal, which included blessings if they kept it and curses if they broke it. They broke it and wouldn't relent over a period of 1200 years, culminating in the Crucifixion. The nation was destroyed as promised. They are now a mixed race, their are no priests, no temple, no religion as prescribed in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, no covenant with them as a chosen people (except those who are in Christ just like other Christians-- the spiritual Isreal or remant described in Hosea, Joel, Jeremiah, etc.), and that area now inhabited by their descendants will never know peace as long as they are there. There is no final solution for the modern nation of Isreal with respect to the Arabs, and there will always be turmoil in our lifetimes.
I would prefer we didn't get mixed up in it.
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posted on
07/21/2006 5:52:30 AM PDT
by
mikeus_maximus
(Hey George! Read OUR lips: Build the wall!)
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posted on
07/21/2006 5:59:59 AM PDT
by
SJackson
(The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do!)
To: Prysson
Hey, we just have to adopt the Rwanda/Sudan model of peace negotiations that the UN is a master at. Talk and talk until the events on the ground end the conversation. I believe Bolton is capable of parsing the words of the worlds body ad nausem. Think how much time was spent talking about the Oslo Accords? I think it was in excess of six years.
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posted on
07/21/2006 6:02:34 AM PDT
by
tigtog
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