*Updates below* The more I hear in the news about the battle in southern Lebanon, the more I think back to World War II. I wonder if there are any significant similarities between: 1) Hezbollah’s……

Yer an idiot. The liberal mime that Israel is just making more terrorists by killing terrorists, is as logical as saying that we make more criminals by putting criminals in jail. Yea, there maybe an uptick in people wanting revenge on Israel, but you can add that to a long list of gripes that the ragheads have against joooos (most are invented anyway)but once enough of these people are killed, FEAR will keep them away. Yea. you can’t negotiate with people who’s only purpose to exist is to kill joooos. Also, did you happen to miss the warm hugs and kissess that the Lebonese prez gave to Hizbolla? Did you happen to miss the Hizbolla luvfest that is going on between them and the Leboneese army?

So, as much as you liberals hate it, we need to kill more people. Maybe a lot more people. Hundreds maybe. Maybe a few thousand. We need to kill them, their friends, their pet goats and their children. You stop a war be defeating the enemy. You defeat them by killing them.

Oh, and we’ve done it before, in Germany and Japan. Both worked out pretty well for them and for us.

Pablo on July 25, 2006 at 10:20 AM

I grow so weary…listen up 1) we were at war with Japan and Germany–both of these nations declared war on us 2) both of these nations had a history of democratic institutions–you’ve heard of the Weimar republic? the Japanese enjoyed a more localized version of democracy in the 18th and 19th centuries; 3) we were supported by the the rest of the world in these basically humanitarian efforts, and jointly occupied Germany with 3 of our WW2 allies. 4) Germany and Japan were real countries, not one that had been drawn up for the convenience of the “imperialists” by grouping together 3 factions with a long history of animosity.

Sweet mother of God, when did we stop teaching history???

Pablo: you’re not serious? We started a civil war in Iraq–nobody wants to use that word but when you have Shiite militias fighting Sunni militias, what word would you use? And I can only guess you haven’t been keeping up with the news from Afghanistan. They’re baaaaacccckkkk…..You are taking my reference to Brits/French too literally. We are attempting to hold together a country by force of traditional military power–with little understanding of the culture of that country–and are being “quagmired”–if that’s not a word, it should be–by guerillas. Remember Algiers? (Little bit of history: when asked about negotiating with the Algierian rebels, Mitterand responded: “the only possible negotiation is war”. Sound familiar? France’s losses here and in Vietnam marked the beginning of the end for them as a significant world power. What is that expression about those who don’t know history being to….)

Back to the issue at hand, the conundrum for Israel is this: can they kill more terrorists than they are creating?

Can the terrorists kill more Zionists than they’re creating? Do either of us have any sort of data to support such a foolish premise?

Why do we think we will succeed where the Brits and French did not?

We’re not doing what the British and the French did. They colonized. We’ve taken out two especially nasty regimes and handed those nations back over to the people who live in them.

LegendHasIt on July 24, 2006 at 8:10 PM

Leave it to someone who can’t address the issue to resort to labeling people. And am I the only person on this blog who uses profanity? (If this situation doesn’t warrant it, I don’t know what does.) I’ll tell you what: you don’t read my posts and I won’t address them to you.

Back to the issue at hand, the conundrum for Israel is this: can they kill more terrorists than they are creating? History would suggest not. Interesting read with some relavance to this is Maggie Thatcher autobio. She discusses her reasons for not bombing Dublin, for taking the negotiation route with the IRA.

Of course history would have told us not to invade Iraq; and what’s deeply troubling is that there is an argument that the real root cause of the decline of Europe was imperialism. Why do we think we will succeed where the Brits and French did not? The sectarian chasms were there before the Europeans set up shop; the same ones are still there. Oh wait, I forgot, we have the Bush Doctrine.

After working three in a row (which I hadn’t done since the doc said not to) and being rather worn out, I did little today except go with my kid to the repair shop so she could drop off her car to get fixed (AC died and in this heat that’s…

Please continue with the war news, and links. It isn’t as if we can get the facts from the MSM.

As for the sock puppet issue, keep us informed but my preferrence is slanted towards the war news.

http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/can_israel_win__opedcolumnists_ralph_peters.htm

I like this author and I believe the pessimism in this article is meant as a wake-up call, rather than a conclusion.

Sock puppets or other light subjects are a great mix with the very serious themes we are privileged to discuss here.

“Talk about a cluster f***”

Leave it to the liberal to inject gratuitous profanity.
This isn’t the DU, girl. I’ll bet if you really tried, you could get your point across even better without resorting to gutter language.

*Updates below* The more I hear in the news about the battle in southern Lebanon, the more I think back to World War II. I wonder if there are any significant similarities between: 1) Hezbollah’s reliance on bunkers and tunnels, and 2) Japan’s island…

Just how many fighters CAN Hez put in the field??? I’ve seen sources that said hundreds… one source 6000… another hundreds with thousands of supporters… any hard intel on this…

Israel could easily throw 30 to 40K of front line armored Inf across the border is needed….