[Jameison]

"This is why the "war on terror" is an abject failure, like the "war on drugs".

Apples to oranges.


"Absent a clear definition of the enemy state, it is impossible to wage and decisively win a war."


That will come as a surprise to General Franco, and all those who have won hundreds of civil wars all over the world against enemies who did not fit "a clear definition of the enemy state".
You got any more sweeping statements to make?

[new yorker 77]

Another festering LIB Douche.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

That will come as a surprise to General Franco, and all those who have won hundreds of civil wars all over the world against enemies who did not fit "a clear definition of the enemy state".

Great to see you revere a man that committed unspeakable atrocities. The lack of a concise statement of a position on the Israeli/Lebanon conflict leaves many of us with the impression that you are a rabble-rouser. Enjoy your brief stay.

[cake_crumb]

"That will come as a surprise to General Franco, and all those who have won hundreds of civil wars all over the world against enemies who did not fit ' clear definition of the enemy state'."

This is not a civil war. A civil war requires a country. No such country as "Palestine" has ever existed in all of history. "Palestine" is a Roman insult to the Jews they failed to annihilate; a take on "Philistine". No such country as "Palestine"has ever existed. There have been no coins, no official language, no system of government, none of the things which a country requires to be a country, in all of history. Even when Yasser wrote the Pali constitution, which vows nothing but the destruction of Israel, which historical HAS BEEN A SIGNIFICANT country in the past two thousand years of human history, the creation of a state called "Palestine" with Jerusalem as it's capital - after the Jews are "driven into the sea" goes so far as to pretend such a notion was anything other than a sick fiction written by Hitler' Arab allies. Hezbollah fights for this fiction - at least according to them they do - while also fighting (allegedly) for Israel to withdraw to her pre-1967 (Arab war of conquest and destruction, remember that?) borders.

The notion of "Palestinian refugees" and the equally fictitious notion of Israel as an Imperialist power for taking ground in an Arab war of conquest and daring to hold it is what gives credence to Hezbollah, the PLO, the PLA, etc.

All of the so-called "Arab world" has a political stake in wanting the destruction of Israel: to give their oppressed masses a Great Great Satan to hate, besides the Great Satan (the US) in order to get their minds off unimportant things like where their next meal is coming from and stuff like that. They can just blame the two scapegoats of Israel and the US.

Nobody has thought far enough to figure out whom will be to blame after Israel and the US are destroyed and their lands cowering under the banner of the Khalifah.

Just a note to make sure the record is historically accurate.