Posted on 05/02/2002 11:31:01 AM PDT by swarthyguy
Most human evolution occurs during war. It's ugly but true that modern humans are the end product of a million years of killing and rape. War is high speed evolution and is the only reason humans are the most genetically advanced animal to ever live.
The problem in the Middle East isn't war, but peace. The Israelis always pull their punches. If the 6 Day War had run its course, the losers wouldn't be alive today to cause trouble. I personally do not want peace. I want the terrorists, which are genetic flunkies, and their mothers to die off and not bother anyone anymore.
Those clauses became a dead letter years ago when the Oslo peace process began and the Palestinian National Authority came into existence. The onus is on Israel now to end its destructive occupation and finally let the Palestinians exercise self-determination.
Not so. Israel started the '67 war with a surprise attack, though you can quibble about earlier hostilities. The only Arab-Israeli war clearly initiated by Arab nations was the '73 war.
Unmitigated Barbara Streisand.
First, 3 of 7, you obviously missed the 1948 war, in which armies from 5 Arab nations attacked Israel the morning after it declared its independence. That is the clearest case of naked aggression that I can think of since World War II.
Second, the 1956 war occurred because Egypt blockaded the Strait of Tiran, thereby cutting off Israel's only southern port, Eilat. This was an act of war, to which any nation similarly situated would have responded (or tried to) as Israel did. Though Israel's armed forces struck first, the war started at the moment the Strait was blocked.
1967: Well, you really seem to have a problem with your neurons firing properly, don't you. This war was a defensive action by Israel, not an act of aggression. Why? First, the Strait of Tiran was, once again, blocked by Egypt - that alone was an act of war, once again justifying an Israeli action. Second, Nasser violated a treaty he had signed in 1957 and ordered the UN out of the Sinai Desert, where there was a nominal buffer force to prevent either side from starting a war. The UN was so dedicated to peace that it left faster than the French usually surrender to the Germans. Third, Nasser immediately moved hundreds of tanks and several divisions of troops into Sinai, and announced that he and the other Arabs were going to "push Israel into the sea." Fourth, Syria, which had used the Golan Heights for most of the prior 19 years to shell Israeli farmers and villages, began shelling again and reinforced its forces there. These 4 very good reasons, each of which was sufficient on its own to justify an Israeli response, combined to make this one of the most justified military strikes (by Israel) in history. By the way, in the middle of the war Jordan, which Israel had begged to stay out, began shelling Israeli positions in Jerusalem and other areas from what is now called the "West Bank" (it was simply called "Jordan" before the war). Israel responded to all of these aggressions by taking away from Egypt, Syria and Jordan the territory from which those nations' forces had committed aggression against Israel. Further, when Israel offered to return all of that territory in return for peace, it received the 3 Nos from the Arab League: No recognition of Israel, No negotiation with Israel and No peace with Israel. You know what really happened here? The Arabs decided to play a high-stakes game of poker, and lost. Instead of blaming the Israelis for winning that hand, Arafat & Co. should blame Egypt, Jordan and Syria for being stupid. They should demand a state from those countries!
1973 - at least you got your neurons firing correctly here and realized that the Arabs (Egypt & Syria) started this war.
Let's go on: How about Lebanon in 1982? You undoubtedly think that this was also a war that Israel started, so I'll fill you in on the facts: Yassir Arafat and his terrorists failed to overthrow Jordan's King Hussein in 1970. Hussein killed about 10,000 of Arafat's terrorists, and kicked Arafat out - and he ended up in Lebanon. By 1982 he and associated terror groups had set up a state-within-a-state in southern Lebanon, an armed camp the sole purpose of which was to harm Israel. Northern Israeli towns were routinely subjected to mortar and Katyusha rocket attack. At some point, Israel had had enough and decided to clean out southern Lebanon. This was no act of aggression, but one of defense on Israel's part.
Why don't you try to peddle your worthless wares elsewhere? No one with any knowledge or sense believes your garbage.
Amazing journalistic technique! Well, duh, pretty much the entire population of the planet did not attend Gissin's talk. What's next, "Joe Dumbass did not attend school and he thinks that 2 plus 2 is..."?
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Forget the wild-eyed hype about China, it has only 18 servicable ICBM's and its main nuclear enemies are India and Taiwan. Forget Russia, as Putin has clearly sided with the U.S. against Islamic terrorists in Chechnya.
As it stands today, no enemy of America can seize and maintain space superiority, air superiority, or naval superiority. Only in the etheral world of computer wars and in the world of the grunt soldier can any coalition of forces credibly oppose the same U.S. forces, and without space, air, and sea superiority, they literally stand no chance against us.
These conditions aren't ripe for a new world war; they are ripe for complete disaster to befall on anyone who opposes the U.S. militarily.
Our economic, technological, and military superiority is more than a generation ahead of the closest potential combination of adversaries. Consider that China has still not managed to orbit its first man around the Earth, something that the U.S. did more than 40 years ago, for instance. In the Middle-East, such technological feats are even less plausible.
What the Islamic Revolution had going for it was unamity of opinion. That solid block of faithful believers made for powerful political statements and potent propaganda.
Their mistake, however, was in digressing from their strong suits above into our strong suits of economic, technological, and military warfare.
But the hilarious part is that they are too macho and too unclever to back down from their current path.
So the Middle-East wants war?!
So be it! Their masses of soldiers can witness firsthand the death and utter destruction that our lowly conventional military forces are capable of delivering at will from space, the air, the sea, and even on the ground.
And should we ever decide to escalate any particular conflict, our non-conventional forces pack a power that no other coalition of nations can hope to equal.
So are we headed straight for a new World War? Not a chance. There is simply no opposition capable of making a real fight of any conflict against us.
That isn't what Bush said. Big difference between that and what Bush said.
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Cain and Abel = first world war.
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