Posted on 08/14/2006 4:24:01 PM PDT by Btrp113Cav
Since you are young we will overlook your mistaken analogy. There is no similiarity between our current situation and the late 1930s other than the willingness of the Left to compromise with evil.
and appeasement by the international community. and jews being under attack.
Attacks on Americans? Why don't we throw some other stuff in there such as attacks on Eskimos? Your post is nonsense and without understanding.
You belong on the DU. You are beyond dialog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LLS
Only if you are trying to match stupidity with stupidity.
Nothing more effective than an armchair general without a clue as to strategy and tactics. Blustering, misrepresenting facts and attacking leaders who have carried the fight to the enemy is not in the playbook for victory.
What the future holds, none of us can accurately predict. We'll just have to see what comes along.
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There is a very long, but encouraging article by Norman Podhoretz, linked on today's Real Clear Politics. He compares President Bush to President Truman, who recognized that communism represented a new kind of threat after WWII and had to be confronted in a new way. Reagan completed what Truman started, and we can only hope that some future president will be on hand to complete what GWB has initiated.
They have been refuted in numerous posts on this thread. Expecting you to understand that is futile since it is beyond your capabilities.
The US is not appeasing anyone and is protecting the Jews.
That makes the analogy completely invalid.
I should have said cooperating.
In April 1983, the U.S. embassy in Beirut was struck by a 400-pound suicide truck bomb, which killed 63 people, including 17 Americans, and wiped out the CIA's Middle East bureau.
On Oct. 23, 1983, terrorists hijacked a water delivery truck on its way to the Beirut International Airport Marine barracks and sent another truck, loaded with explosives, in its place.
Ismalal Ascari, an Iranian, drove the 19-ton truck over the barbed wire fence around the barracks, past two guard posts, and into the center of the compound, according to a federal court order issued earlier this year in a case brought by relatives of the victims.
"The resulting explosion was the largest non-nuclear explosion that had ever been detonated on the face of the Earth," the court order read. It was equal in force to between 15,000 and 21,000 pounds of TNT.
"The force of its impact ripped locked doors from their doorjambs at the nearest building, which was 256 feet away," read the ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth. "Trees located 370 feet away were shredded and completely exfoliated."
All the windows at the airport control tower, half a mile away, shattered. A crater eight feet deep was carved into the earth, and 15 feet of rubble was all that remained of the four-story Marine barracks.
"The force of the explosion ripped the building from its foundation. The building then imploded upon itself," read a Defense Department report on the attack. "Almost all the occupants were crushed or trapped inside the wreckage."
A U.S. investigation blamed lax security for allowing the bomber to get into the Marines' compound.
Lamberth ruled in May than Iran was responsible for the attack because of its support for Hezbollah. "It is beyond question that Hezbollah and its agents received massive material and technical support from the Iranian government," Lamberth wrote.
U.S. troops left Lebanon in February 1984.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/23/world/main579638.shtml
I understand a lot. This UN travesty calls upon 1949 agreements, yet gives no mention of Americans killed.
The personal attacks are tiresome.
Maybe one will land on Olmert and Israel can finally get on with it.
we should cut off all ties with the UN
we should make it clear to the UN that it is either for or against terrorism, and threaten to withdraw all of our funding and support for it should it aid terrorists in any way, directly or indirectly.
Israel never wanted to occupy territory in Lebanon and a long term occupation would be the only way more significant losses by the enemy could have occurred. It was obvious from the beginning that Israel would destroy the infrastructure of the area and the headquarters and offices in Beirut through bombing; send in armour and drive to the River and after punishing the terror group and its enabler, Lebanon, call for an international presence on the border and withdraw.
Events occurred just as I had thought. But it is far from over as everyone knows.
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