Posted on 07/30/2006 5:23:00 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, July 30th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns; L. Paul Bremer, former head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq; Dr. Steven Rosenberg, chief surgeon at the National Cancer Institute.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Israeli U.N. Ambassador Dan Gillerman; Lebanese special envoy Nouhad Mahmoud.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora; Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Burns; Israeli Ambassador Daniel Ayalon; cyclist and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Burns; Syrian Cabinet Minister Bouthaina Shaaban; Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
Nic Burns on FNS saying that there are lots of countries that would be willing to send peacekeepers to southern Lebanon! Do you have to park your brains at the door to work in the State Dept?
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From an article in the Toronto Sun:
So, who in the world's up for that job? Canada? Not with our military already stretched to the limit in Afghanistan.
The United States? Great Britain? Australia?
Impossible. Any of those forces acting as peacemakers in southern Lebanon would become prized terrorist targets themselves, perhaps even more so than Israeli soldiers.
The European Union?
How effective have most members of that alliance been in fighting terrorism since 9/11?
The Arab League? The only thing its members might ever conceivably agree on, if they thought for a moment they could actually win, would be to attack Israel. Fighting Hezbollah in southern Lebanon simply isn't on their radar.
Russia? Japan? China?
Okay, now it's getting silly, isn't it?
MTP
Tim apparently didn't read the memo of the Canadian UN official who was killed, but Tim did reference the Irish UN official.
Gillerman reminds Tim of the contents of the Canadian's email that said Hiz was using the UN outpost as a shield. [IIRC, the Canadian email said that Hiz would be a close as 10 feet in front of the UN outpost while firing rockets into Israel.]
EXACTLY!
it is the HATE of Israel that is the DRIVING force.. the VERY CAUSE for war, terrorism, and the deaths of "civilians"...
the left and the media will wimper and whine about these deaths and call them civilians....
the big difference is that the terrorist are dancing and celebrating these deaths- calling them MARTYRS...and Heroes....
and so the world continues to spin upside down......
I'm getting ready to leave shortly but am mostly listening in the other room and posting occasionally.
Israeli Ambassador Gillerman just said, regarding the UN outpost that was hit by Israel the other day, that they have aerial photographs showing that missiles were launched by Hezbollah from the building right near the UN outpost.
I'm appalled that very few reporters think it's worth noting that UN Resolution 1559 required the UN to disarm the militias in Lebanon and the UN never took ONE SINGLE STEP to follow their own resolution. Not one.
And now they are condemning Israel for defending herself.
May God bless Israel and all who love her; I pray for her protection every day and her military victory over the evil people who want to kill every Jew in Israel and beyond.
Tim Russert may be very good an internalizing the DNC talking points, but all in all, he is really a very bad interviewer.
I too saw that movie yesterday it's probably not for the faint at heart but it is truly eye-opening about just how serious the Jihadis really are. It's scary to think that possibly 100-200 million think like they do and even more sympathize with them.
The muslim communities worldwide have an interesting choice to make in the coming years. With the jihadists/terrorists basically saying "be on our side or be dead," which side will all those moderate muslims we keep hearing aboutchoose?
If they chose our side they better be ready to stop letting the terror types use their mosques for bad guy hideouts world wide and they sure as hell better start turning in the bad guys to law enforcement.
Otherwise as GW has said so many times if you aid and abet a terrorist, then in effect.......and if you want a perfect example, look at what is going on in Lebanon right now, the non-terror types in Lebanon better stand up and soon.
First of all, consider the song Have You Forgotten?, by Darryl Whorley. Fact is, about 1/3 of Americans have. They saw 9/11 as terrible, but then saw the removal of the Taliban from Afghanistan as the answer, initially supported the Iraq invasion but because it got so "hard" they blame the President for continuing that war, as if we had a choice, and surprisingly blame him for it now, even though, they, like Congress (including the Democrats) were for it to begin with!
The liberals/leftists, about 1/3 of our countrymen, and that very much includes the media, ACTED as if they thought 9/11 was horrible, but many of them, most I'd say, saw it as punishment for America's support of Israel and our American "imperialism", especially under a right-of-center Republican administration. They could not voice this in the months immediately after 9/11, though, as the rest of us would have skewered them.
Of course, the last 1/3 of Americans saw 9/11 as an attack by a very evil and dangerous enemy, one that needs to be eliminated from the face of the Earth for peace loving nations to live. We realized this would be a difficult and lengthy struggle, but still, if we persevered, a struggle we would no doubt win. We are that third.
Immediately after 9/11, President Bush went before Congress and said:
We will direct every resource at our command -- every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence, and every necessary weapon of war -- to the destruction and to the defeat of the global terror network.
Now, this war will not be like the war against Iraq a decade ago, with a decisive liberation of territory and a swift conclusion. It will not look like the air war above Kosovo two years ago, where no ground troops were used and not a single American was lost in combat.
Our response involves far more than instant retaliation and isolated strikes. Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes visible on TV and covert operations secret even in success.
We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place until there is no refuge or no rest.
And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation in every region now has a decision to make: Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.
From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime. Our nation has been put on notice, we're not immune from attack. We will take defensive measures against terrorism to protect Americans."
Has any of this changed? Has this not been exactly the way we have fought this war up to this time? What about the people who heard this then, applauding George Bush for it then, complaining now how he has caused the terrorists by continuing to fight in Iraq and the Middle East? Are they that stupid?
No. As Darryl so eloquently sang, THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN!
Good morning and as ever thanks for the thread
AMEN!
PREACH ON BROTHER!
That is a marvelous post, Alas.
Paul Bremer is making a lot of sense on FNS.
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TREMENDOUS POST!
THANK YOU!
Unfortunately in time of war there are no civilians and we forget this at our peril.
The MSM buy into this myth and IMHO hamper the resolution of such wars Iraq and now this Israeli/Lebanese conflict is a prime example.
Most Excellent AB.
Breakfast time on MTP. Lebanese Foreign Minister Mahmoud is serving up waffles all over the place. He has said plainly he supports Nasrallah, yet doesn't agree with the Hezbollah stated aim to eliminate Israel as a nation.
I'm still trying to pin down just when "expert" became a synonym for "asshole".
Did ever occur to you that Burns has already received confirmations from governments indicating that they are willing to send troops as part of the peacekeeping mission? Do you really think that Burns would make such a statement without having any basis to make it?
I will wager that come next week you will learn the learn the names of the countries willing to participate. One of them will be France.
I guess he would have said the same thing about our bombing of Germany.
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