Dream On, My Friend
Posted by: Emperor Misha I in Blogs and Blogging, Middle East12:49 pm
LC & IB Jeff G. is beginning to lean towards the optimistic Rope-a-Dope theory regarding the colossal clusterfuck that is the Hezbollah-Israel “ceasefire”, and he’s far from alone.
The idea is that Olmert’s abject surrender, dropping trou and asking Nasrallah and the anti-Semitic “world community (led by the U.S.)” to be gentle is really just a huge trick, designed to prove, once and for all, that Hezbollah’s intentions aren’t honorable when they turn down this offer and resume hostilities.
Right.
It’s funny that every single damn time that Israel caves in and plays Neville Chamberlain (with the difference being that their Chamberlain happens to live in the Sudetenland) it’s “the last chance” and that “the next time Israel, having proven that terrorists can’t be trusted, will finish the job with the world community’s approval.”
How many times have we heard this tearily optimistic and pathetically naive theory advanced now?
It’s always “the last time” and “the next time” is always supposed to be the ultimate smack-down and yet, every single damn time “the next time” ends the same way as the last time: Israel is stopped short of victory, the terrorists re-arm and we get to do it all over again.
Besides, if there are anybody living in this world today that still need another terrorist betrayal of peace deals to be convinced that you can’t negotiate with them, that you can’t trust them, their hudnas, their taqqiya or anything else that they spew forth any further than you can throw them (hopefully off a cliff), then those morons need to be cleansed out of the gene pool or, at the very least, be sent to the toddlers’ table and told to shut the fuck up until spoken to.
I understand completely the urge, the need to somehow locate a silver lining to this cosmically colossal cumulonimbus of fetid appeasenik feces, but I’m here to tell you that it isn’t there.
Deal with it.
The West has lost its collective nerve in an avalanche of post-modernist idiocy and it is currently very much in doubt whether we’ll ever locate it again.
So spare me the pious hopes for a Machiavellian scheme that will never be.
There simply aren’t any “leaders” left in the world capable of getting past, much less comprehending, the first few pages of “The Prince.”
And that’s a fact.
Prove me wrong.
PLEASE!
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I am not holding my breath, but I do certainly hope that Dr. Rice and the other cease-fire brokers made it clear to both parties that if the hezzbos so much as fire a paintball gun into Israeli territory, that Israel was justified in responding with as much disproportionate force as they could possibly muster.
August 13th, 2006 at 1:48 pmAlong the same lines, by way of RealClearPolitics.com and the New York Post, Ralph Peters gives us some “Hard Truths” learned in this latest conflict between Israel and our collective enemy.
After analyzing the half-hearted attempt by Israel to fight the war “on the cheap” - and drawing unfavorable parallels with what our performance in Iraq - and examining the Hezbos’ manipulation of the media, Peters draws the following conclusion: “We’ll have to fight (the War on Terror) by Hezbollah’s rules, and learn to like it.”
Give it a read. And remember: in just over a week, on August 22, Mahmoud Almendinajad and Iran are vowing to “light up the sky” and ignite a world-wide conflagaration of some sort.
August 13th, 2006 at 2:01 pmI’m glad you’re not holding your breath, because I’d truly hate to lose you as a reader
Yes, I know, you’d resume breathing when you passed out from hypoxia, but you get my drift, I’m sure.
If “both parties” need further proof that negotiating with terrorists is futile and only serves to embolden them further, then “both parties” are quite frankly too terminally clueless to be in charge of anything more complicated than a lemonade stand, and I’m not sure that they’d have the required skills for that either.
Not that it matters. They’ll never learn until the Jihadis set off a nuke in the U.S. or some other western city, and I’m not exactly sure that they’ll learn even then.
They’re too fucking dumb and wilfully ignorant of the facts to be in charge of anything, and the best thing that could happen for mankind would be for them to be sterilized so that we could at least hold on to the hope that future generations won’t be as impaired by the Stoopid Gene™ as this one obviously is.
August 13th, 2006 at 2:12 pmWell again Misha shows us why he’s the Emperor…
From Gateway Pundit:
August 13th, 2006 at 3:34 pmWe’ve had enough already of this nonsense.
Sorry Sire, can’t help you there. I agree, no need to bluff when you’re holding a flush.
I’ll draw a short parallel. A plot much like a crime requires three elements.
Motive, Means, Opportunity.
The opportunity exists as the “international outrage” will indeed become more shrill over time, in spite of blatant manipulation by Hezebollah and their puppet-masters.
The means are obviously there as it’s just a low-hanging fruit to pluck. Accept a Lose-Lose deal and walk away to status quo ante conditions, with an obvious victory for the terrorists.
But the machiavellian theory fails to pass the smell test in order to meet the motive element. What motive would Israel (and by association) the U.S. have to once again play the card. That play didn’t work out well for Team Bush in the Iraq run-up. We still drew heat for acting unilaterally and Saddam was given adequate time to spirit away the majority of his WMD.
Israel and the US will still face the same bullshit “the next time”, it’s insane to think otherwise.
By definition, a play of this caliber has a shelf-life of exactly ONCE.
To make this work, one would need to believe that Olmert is willing to concede for purely political motivations. With an inevitable failure of the agreement his governing party collapse would be assured.
This only works if he is even MORE stupid and weak-kneed than it appears at this juncture.
Just a quasi-cogent thought.
August 13th, 2006 at 4:10 pmI don’t think there is any great Machiavellian plan. I don’t doubt that we have convinced Israel to stop. But when the Hezbo’s break the cease fire - if it ever actually starts - what choice will Israel have then? They have the troops in country. They will use them.
August 13th, 2006 at 4:30 pmRight.
Up until the point where we tell them to stop again.
No worse “friend”.
August 13th, 2006 at 4:40 pmPunto di non ritorno…
Secondo il Jerusalem Post (via Captain’s Quarters), il cessate-il-fuoco negoziato dall’ONU e approvato all’unanimità dal governo israeliano ha provocato una profonda crisi all’interno del governo libanese, che ha rinviato una riunione di gabinetto…
August 13th, 2006 at 5:03 pmLegga questo articolo nell’alberino de Gerusalemme: Analisi: Vittoria negata eccedenza dei vapori dell’IDF
August 13th, 2006 at 5:08 pmImpossible to on this one.
August 13th, 2006 at 5:29 pmNeither Iran nor Syria possess the technology to build a bicycle let alone a suitcase nuke (or a rifle or even a bullet for that matter). Why not use those to take the terror war to them. Let their cities and facilities blow up unexpectedly for no reason. Let us walk among them in their own clothes and strike stealthily as they have done. Have we not learned well their methods and tecniques? Let no mosque or public building be safe from the terror that comes in the night and let no mullah be safe from the sharp knife drawn in the dark. Let the agora run deep with the blood of their innocents. Lay minarets flat in the streets and silence the call to prayer. Let this be done relentlessly day and night, somewhere every hour, until the muslims rise up against the terrorists, their theocratic leaders and the despots that rule them and hang them, but not before these brutal men see their wives and children beheaded and burned before their eyes. When the evil has been excised then we must kill the rest to prevent this pestilence from ever rising up again and soiling the earth with innocent blood in the name of a satanic and pagan god.
Am I being too harsh?
August 14th, 2006 at 11:18 pm