I think that the war cabinet in Israel held together for so long because they could all see that the end of fighting with hamas would just be the end of the beginning. Any sign at all of weakness or any eagerness to negotiate from anything except a position of towering strength would see the rest of Israel's enemies jump in and start swinging machetes.
I know our politicians don't see beyond the end of their noses and they would instantly poo-poo the idea that Israel has anything to be afraid of, after all, the United States would 'guarantee' the safety of Israel. I also don't have anymore regard for the State Department than I do for the weasels and lickspittles running the U.S. Military.
If the enemy of Israel sees any real weakness at all in Israel they will continue the attack with the next round launching from Lebanon and you will see the contrails of a hundred thousand rockets on their way to cities in Israel. The pundits and elites here will gasp in horror and proclaim that there must be an immediate cease-fire. Yes, yes, how could I know this? Well, it does seem to happen every single time anybody attacks us or Israel doesn't it?
We used to have Statesmen that could see that much of the world is interconnected below the surface and weaknesses shown in one hemisphere are quickly presumed to be universal weaknesses. Nothing our leaders have done in their putrid behavior under our Viceroy and Generals in Iraq or the pusillanimous skedaddle from Afghanistan has done much to strengthen our image as a frightful enemy best left undisturbed and truthfully, watching the Yemenis attack everything that moves in the Red Sea with complete impunity is not helping at all.
The amazing thing is that a handful of people understand what the Israelis are up against and understand that only through the most drastic methods have they culled the enemy from within their own borders. We on the other hand have let in up to 30,000,000 enemies and WE KNOW IT.
Civilizations are difficult to destroy but they can be worn away by time, internal revolt, external enemies or a combination of those. People have no idea how vulnerable their power supplies or water supplies are and won't until it stares them in the face. All that Katrina farce in New Orleans that was meant to tear down President Bush was nothing but a prop for that purpose. However, what they were trying to show us every day in their stupid vicious lying press reports on Katrina can really happen if evil men work to bring it about. It's surprisingly easy to drop a crucial bridge, cause a dam to collapse, poison an aquifer forever or cause a reactor meltdown.
I mean, look at what two guys did with nothing but matches to USS BONHOMME RICHARD and USS MIAMI.
We are not looking at the downstream effects of our actions or inactions and only seem to gut ourselves over the moment and what the next news cycle will say. People controlling the fate of the nation should be forced to think a little harder and act a lot more responsibly.
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SNIP: Civilizations are difficult to destroy but they can be worn away by time, internal revolt, external enemies or a combination of those. People have no idea how vulnerable their power supplies or water supplies are and won't until it stares them in the face.
A pre nuclear weapon comment, sir.
Civilizations can be crippled in a few blindingly bright moments and instant rats eating each other social breakdown soon afterwards.
It's not battleship row protecting America's mighty moats from the troubles OVER THERE anymore.
It's the Cuban missile crisis with a hypersonic less than 3 minutes launch to strike scenario.
And NO Rational Leadership like JFK to use words intelligently.
That NATO (Let's be honest America) struck Russia's ballistic missile early warning radar system what, 3 time with NATO Long range missiles recently.
You reduced an already paranoid Russia's time to decide if it's REAL or False Positive launch from 30 minutes to less than 10 from their poor satellite detection gear.
BRILLIANT. If you want to force them to launch on the possible false data right freaking now.
Use it or lose it nukes. FK'ing jackasses "THINK" just because Putin hasn't nuked us YET, he's SCARED to USE them. Like the drunken kids throwing rocks at the dog on the porch. He hasn't bit us yet...
Michael,
Be sure to thank Mackenderist Britian for their actions in the Great Game.
I think Putin has shown great restraint in the face of every behind the scenes secret rulers of Europe's attempts to get him to actually physically attack any NATO state. They reason that if he does that then we can have a tidy little war. They always think they're going to get just a tidy little war but since they end every war richer and more in control they don't really care.
viz Mackinder and his heartland belief, I studied it in one of my classes in college and thought it was a load of tripe back then. Nothing has changed my mind. It really doesn't matter how much territory a State controls but rather what kind of people it has and so you see why Africa with the other 50% of the worlds resources amounts to nothing and the old Mackinder heartland never amounted to a hill of beans. The casual dismissal of America to some meaningless secondary role is just a reflection of Europe's view of the America that existed in 1904 and it doesn't begin to understand what the Sleeping Giant was capable of with just the manpower and resources it had at hand.
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