The F-16 Solution........... by George Will

WASH POST ^ | 11 2 2001 | George Will

[dennisw]

When Israel's foreign minister, Shimon Peres, accompanied by Ambassador David Ivry, recently visited the Oval Office, President Bush remarked that Israel certainly has the right ambassador for the moment. He said this because Ivry has shown that he understands how preventive action is pertinent to the problem of weapons of mass destruction in dangerous hands. Bush's remark, pregnant with implications, revealed that the president as well as the vice president remembers and admires a bold Israeli action for which Israel was roundly condemned 20 years ago. On the afternoon of June 7, 1981, Jordan's King Hussein, yachting in the Gulf ...

[JD86]

There is a lesson we could learn from the Israelis. They always operate from the self-interest of their country. We should do the same.

[RKBA_Champ]

... exactly

[MyDogDaisy]

I love the way the Israelis respond to things. I wonder if we could interest any of them in a little "spelunking" over in Afghanystan...

[RLK]

It was a no-nonsense master stroke by Israel.

[stylin_geek]

Actually, the masterstroke of the whole operation was Israel constantly threatening to take out some Chineses Silkworm missiles that had been put in place by an Arab country. I do not remember which country had the missiles, but I do remember the Israeli press screaming about them...and they then went in and destroyed the reactor. Brilliant piece of deception.

[D-fendr]

a Willing BUMP

[Imperial Warrior]

You only need to look at the videotape of the Palestinians wildly celebrating at the sight of thousands of helpless American civilians jumping from the WTC towers on fire, being crushed to death, and being torn apart to see which group over there is asking to be annihilated by us. My solution to the Palestinian state "problem" is to turn the whole damned thing into Israel after nuking the Palestinian cockroach ratbastards into oblivion.

[malarski]

And neither lawyers citing "international law" nor diplomats invoking "world opinion" will prevent America from acting as Israel did, pre-emptively in self-defense.

By George it is Will with his advise to kill more and more people.

[Fulbright]

This was the threat 20 years ago. Anybody want to take a guess as to what it is now?

[Fulbright]

And neither lawyers citing "international law" nor diplomats invoking "world opinion" will prevent America from acting as Israel did, pre-emptively in self-defense.

Don't bet on it. This entire system has been degraded by PC, as we saw on the first night of the war.

Too many lawyers, too much Prozac, too much PC. Write that on America's headstone.

[GeronL]

Its not just Iraq now, and even Saddam learns from past mistakes and hides his activities.

[GeronL]

Today on Ivry's embassy office wall is a large black-and-white photograph taken by satellite 10 years after the raid, at the time of the Gulf War. It shows the wreckage of the reactor complex, which is still surrounded by a high, thick wall that was supposed to protect it. Trees are growing where the reactor dome had been.

The picture has this handwritten inscription. "For Gen. David Ivry, with thanks and appreciation for the outstanding job he did on the Iraqi nuclear program in 1981 -- which made our job much easier in Desert Storm." The author of the inscription signed it: "Dick Cheney, Sec. of Defense 1989-93."

Sounds good.

[American in Israel]

Better to suffer the condemnation of the world, then to face millions burned alive in cities by Islamic Jihad.

But politicians are all about public opinion. So instead of doing what we have to do to survive, we make fake friends with murderers, and condemn our true friends for PC. You can have peace, or you can have PC, not both. 5000 American dead was not enough to stop the PC negotiations. We did NOT wake up.

I have a verrrry bad feeling about this...

[Cobra64]

I think it will take another 5-6000 Americans dieing before this country wakes up. Sad, but true.

I agree. Too many people just "don't get it" until it hits them in Chicago or California. I'm a business analyst who was in Detroit when the 9/11 attack occured. Sitting in a 30 million dollar headquarters building for the world's largest wheel manufacturer, when the attacks occurred, these people didn't even turn on the tv to track the atocities. I went out and bought one a tv and put it in my office..

Throughout the day and the remaining part of the week, no friggin interest. At lunch Fox and CNN were showing the Trade Center Center Towers burning and imploding. No one in the restaurant bothered to register an acknowledgement of what had occurred.

I was so friggin pissed, I grabbed the tv remote from the waiter and turned up the volume. And yelled at these dopes, "You're next pals! Sears Tower about six airline minutes from here. Let's think about your mfr. plants here in Ann Arbor, Dearborn, Flint, Pontiac. You people just don't get it. Untold thousands of Americans have been slaughtered,"

Their response, "yeah, shut up and sit down. You must be from New York."

My wife accuses me of being too committed to America. "Just let it be, Mark." Then I turned to Karen and said, "Well, Minnesota (Karen is from St. Paul), You've proved my point. If these bastards hit Indian Point (nke facility), we're dust!"

Sorry guys, I'm just one guy who can't stand American apathy. We've had it too good for too long. If I were thirty years younger, I'd be loading bombs on the F-14s and 18s.... no charge

Let's rip the enemy! If I were a Marine, I'd say, "Semper Fi."

[Terrorista Nada]

Too bad Slick Willie, the former president who pardons terrorists, let the al-Qaeda, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, and every other outlaw state have nukes. But that was his policy. He believed the balance made for a safer world.

[Terrorista Nada]

It will take one million dead and one U.S. city sacrificed before we consider using nukes. And we'll probably let it happen to get favorable world public opinion.

If you live in a blue area on that November 11th, 2000, USA Today Bush-Gore election map, I'd be thinking about leaving town soon.

[Republic of Texas]

The only good thing about your post, which I agree with, is that the blue areas ARE the most likely targets. The people that got us into this mess, should be the first to be nuked.