If you can see a synagogues on fire in England, France, Germany, and Spain. The cowboy mentality may say to hell with all these countries, and to hell with the UN, however, the intellectual thinks about the ramification/the long-range effects on Israel's public image. You nut cases need to tone down the rhetoric a couple of notches. There are one billion angry Moslems on this planet. They are scattered in every damn corner of the world! The Moslem embassies in Washington can bring in explosives in their diplomatic pouches, and cause havoc to our subways/malls/buildings….You cannot corner a dog and keep pestering him with a stick and expect him not to bite back.
Suicide bombers are murderers and stupid, and Israel rightfully kicked their ass; now, can we go back to rational negotiations to calm that mess down a bit?
No
We can't just all get along.
Not after they attacked our Pentagon and WTC.
Not after our mothers had to jump from burning building with their babies.
Not after terrorists defamed a Passover Seder with a bomb.
Never Again
They had a chance for peace and chose war.
Give them war!
I prefer the analogy of a snake, which needs be killed.
Maybe there really is a clash of civilizations. If so, the message that should be delivered to the muslim world is "Don't tread on Me."
And the message should be backed up with muscle.
In this forum, we do raise our voices more than would be appropriate if, say, we were all U.S. ambassadors abroad, or for that matter, the President. So what? I would object to having pro-Israel folks called "nut cases," but, as I said, we're not working for the State Department (or if any of us are, we're not here in an official capacity).
. . . can we go back to rational negotiations to calm that mess down a bit?
Diplomatic negotiations can only work when both sides are pretty close to agreement from the start. (I got that idea from something Kissinger wrote--forget what.) Perhaps separate negotiations on something like the Golan Heights, where Syrian and Israeli positions are fairly close, makes sense. But negotiations that create a process which is supposed to lead to a utopian end to all Arab-Israeli conflict will not work; their failure, as with the Oslo process, will just inflame the situation more. If what I am saying here is at odds with administration policy, I sure hope they know what fire they are playing with. But avoidance of overbroad negotiations may be consistent Bush's longer term plans.
Somehow this sentence struck me as inadvertantly humorous.
I'm picturing a swarm of stinging insects, angry stinging insects, oblivious to the presence of a rolled-up newspaper. LOL!
You stupid Arabs pissed in the punch bowl...now drink up!
GOOD THINKING!!! You know, there untold billions of mosquitoes too. We have infestations of Fire Ants, and I hear Killer Bees are on their way up from Mexico!
Using your logic, we need to scramble, and fast!!!
Top strategies:
1. Recruit and train special human donors to free the rest of the population from the pests.
2. Accept a "flesh tax" of 15%/year for every man, woman and child.
3. Care to add your own???
I don't know about you, Phil... but your argument of a billion angry moslems smacks too much of paying ransom as hostages. You can do what you want, but I am not going to be held hostage by the animals. Otherwise, you will then need to pay off every other blood sucking angry constituency on the planet.
I wish you luck, but don't get in my way.
Once again, the apologists for wanton murder start with the not-too-subtle extortion racket.Frankly, I'm long past weary of hearing this threat. If you, and those suicidally inclined whack-jobs known as jye-had jumpers want to start something, make sure you're able to successfully complete it!
Remember, o merciful, compassionate one, that jye-had can work two ways! While I don't desire things to come to that, I am willing to leave these bozoes in posession of nothing but pure scorched earth, rather than see my grandkids as "dhimmi" slaves to hatemongering tribalists perpetuially mired in the tenth century, when it is in reality, the twenty-first....
the infowarrior