Messy democracy still the best course
Posted on 08/31/2006 5:43:06 AM PDT by SJackson
Messy democracy still the best course
The Palestinian prime minister, Hamas' Ismail Haniyeh, is shocked. He claims that without his government's knowledge, the until-now unknown terrorist group Holy Jihad Brigades kidnapped two Western journalists (who have since been released) in Gaza.
Have Haniyeh and Hamas forgotten their own terrorist habits? When they were out of power, Hamas "militants" kidnapped and bombed without permission from the Palestinian Authority. That irony of wanting it both ways recalls the ancient historian Thucydides' warning not "to annul those common laws of humanity to which all trust for their own hope of deliverance should they ever be overtaken by calamity; forgetting that in their own hour of need they will look for them in vain."
The same freelance terrorism goes on in Lebanon despite the grumbles of the country's "government." Who, if anyone, is responsible for disarming Hezbollah terrorists? And what faction in Lebanon can officially make peace — or even war — with the Israelis?
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During WWII, essentially ALL of America's resources and manpower were dedicated to the war effort. We have been fighting this war for the past five years with almost no inconvenience to ordinary life -- there is no draft, there is no reallocation of resources. What Pelosi and the others fail to understand is that this war never would have needed to be fought if we had addressed terrorism previously. If Jimmy Carter had stood by the Shah of Iran in 1978-79 and not allowed the jihadists to take over there, most of what we have now would have been avoided. BJ Klintoon ignored terrorism for eight years because it interfered with his "legacy"/sex life.
But if Pelosi would like, we could end this war today if we do to the Islamofascist world exactly what we did to the Japanese. Perhaps someone should clarify that for her.
...............it took 4 years to defeat Nazism..........
And they wore uniforms, didn't hide behind womens skirts, and weren't training their children to become suicide bombers!
I am certain she will test us with more stupidity...just be patient.
Nancy's understanding of things ( if you can call it understanding ) seems to be something she arrived at without even a cursory regard for the political, historical or material realities of the situation.
I think the thing that a lot of us don't really comprehend (unless we were old enough during WWII to be aware of what was going on) is the utterly massive war effort that was underway starting in the late 1930s. If you talk to your parents, grandparents, etc. it's staggering to realize that EVERYONE was working toward victory, nothing else was being manufactured. But the biggest thing back then was that there was ZERO politicizing of the war. There were GOP isolationists who were trying to avoid war, but they didn't obstruct the "lend-lease" program with Britain, and their isolationist rhetoric stopped completely on December 7, 1941.
If Pelosi wants to compare the war on Islamic terror to WWII, that's fine, it's an accurate comparison in terms of its importance to our future freedom and well-being. But she should also be willing to stop politicizing this war, if she and her ilk had said these things during WWII, they would have been arrested for treason.
Good article!
Also, it went on long after the war was officially over.
Nazi guerrillas kept fighting for an additional three or four years.
Nancy girl has Really big eyes and a Really small mind.
Don't forget she's also UGLY!
That's been my position for some time now - the crux of the matter is convincing the skeptical that our current delicate watering of the seeds of democracy is, in fact, a less bad policy than simply letting the whole area go. Given an expansionist and aggressive Iran that is soon to be a nuclear power, that isn't as difficult as it used to be. Now the challenge is to prove that it's a less bad policy than a pre-emptive war with Iran. That turns out to be less easy to show than it used to be.
I agree with your headline.
My verbal barrage peeled some paint off the walls once I found out that the U.S. is committing hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild southern Lebanon.
Why are we stuck with the bill?
we could end this war today if we do to the Islamofascist world exactly what we did to the Japanese.
Well it's never too late to admit you made a mistake and take the necessary actions to correct it!
For the same reason we're providing the palestinians with $240 million. Supposedly it promotes peace. Besides, the roads have to be rebuilt if Hizbollah is to be resupplied
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