Posted on 03/31/2002 5:51:54 PM PST by Colorado Doug
87% Palestinians support martyrdom operations
Nablus- An opinion poll organized by the press department at the Najah University in Nablus yesterday revealed that majority of the Palestinian people supported martyrdom operations against Zionist occupiers.
The poll that included 327 persons from various affiliations pointed out that 87.4% of them supported continuation of Palestinian martyrdom operations.
72.4% even supported expansion of those operations to cover all areas within the Zionist entity and not only in the West Bank or Gaza Strip.
The poll showed that 64% also backed martyrdom operations launched by women commandos.
Another 79.5% expressed belief that the only solution to the conflict with the Zionist entity was continuation of resistance and intifada.
The poll displayed Palestinian pessimism towards future of the Middle East conflict and the American role as 64.5% objected to American envoy Anthony Zinnis demands while 62% said that the Saudi initiative did not serve as a suitable foundation for setting the Palestine cause.
Yes, that means genocide.
Genocide means murdering all of them: the deluded, the innocent, the friendly and the guilty. Not something the U.S. should do and if with the development of smart weaponry not something that is even necessary.
During the Cold War, Soviet cities were held hostage until during the Reagan administration, when the target list was changed (thanks to more precise warheads and clearer heads than McNamara's) to simply wipe out the Communist party, period (still remember the Time magazine comment that targeting some Communists was OK, but the whole party was simply unacceptable).
Using even better conventional weaponry, a related strategy can be implemented today. Start with the problem ruler and his party and work your way down to the local block chief and his informants.
That would be 87% of 327 people.
On other threads, there is discussion of wiping out the families of terrorists.
I fail to see how you could deincentivize a suicide bomber other than by making the entire family a suicide bomber, by killing mom, pop, sis, bro, son, daughter, grandma, grandpa, aunt, uncle, cuz, etc.
My guess is the family may not be as enthusiastic about little Al-Johnny becoming a cruise missile, if they knew that within the month, they would have their tongues hanging out of the middle of their necks. If the families and community did not encourage this behavior, my guess is that it would wane in a very noticable manner.
It would also save innocent lives, although "innocent" would have to die to make it so.
No one in politics has the stones to see it through.
but the visual image of putting a gun to the head of an infant or 4-year-old child discouraged me from supporting such a view.
True. Contrast the image to the children and mothers and fathers that were sitting peacefully in their seats on AA11, AA77, and the UAL planes on 9/11/02. The parents knew they were going to die, and that their childrens' lives were going to end within a few minutes. We don't have video, so it didn't happen. Right? Wrong!!! Picture all the orphans who were created the instant when the WTC collapsed.
Sorry, but we can't stop Islamic terrorists, communists, nazis, or any other bad guys by surgical strikes and clean wars. If 300 innocent Muslims having their throats slit and left on display stopped suicide bombers, would you think it was worth it?
Other options include...wholescale war (starvation, disease, misery, death, etc) of which, the "innocent" children and women would bear the brunt. There are 250Million arabs, what are you going to do?
This insane idea that we only have to find all those who are members of Al-Queida, and then it's Peace, Love, Kumbaya, is as stupid as GWB thinks we are. We have a nation of 250 million arabs that can't get along with their neighbors, or those 8000 miles away. It's not just one or two percent...it's an overwhelming majority and they are not going away. When GWB finishes his undeclared war (if he ever does), new terror cells will sprout up. When the DEA kills a drug kingpin, and takes down a cartel, a dozen ambitious folks look upon that as an opportunity, and the cycle repeats. You must kill this enemy by the roots.
Sorry to tell you that.
Warfighting is dirty business. It has to be so, otherwise we all would suffer.
Obviously they consider everybody to be combatants. But I think it's more likely the result of the indoctrination they've always received that makes them such animals. Take terror home to them as we did with the Germans in Dresden and other cities, and the Japanese in their cities and they might be ready to join civilization (at least any that survive).
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