Worse Than I Thought
The release of the Iraq Study Group's report produced items far worse than I thought. When Hezbollah and Hamas began applauding the report, I knew we were in for even more trouble. It's not exactly been a secret in Washington that James Baker hates Israel. The whole lot of country club liberal Republicans that Bush Sr. had operating in his stall weren't keen on them, especially after they failed to make a working peace plan during 41's administration. But to see what came out of Baker's committee's report is shocking. James, Lee and company have advocated throwing Israel to the wolves while handing over Free Iraq to the two remaining biggest terror sponsors in the region, Iran and Syria (followed closely by the Saudis).
I'm not quite sure where to begin. We were in a war against Saddam's Iraq that we've won, and now are having to battle a mixed bag of Baathist/Sunni loyalists with a liberal sprinkling of foreign fighters (which we're kid gloving, unfortunately). This means we, the United States, possessor of the most powerful military in the world, are in danger of losing? To them??? I'd think it was just a really poor joke if I hadn't seen Baker's face when he read the punchline. They actually believe this crap.
And the only way to "win with honor" (man, Vietnam Vets should be screaming NO right about now) is to diplomatically engage the two terrorist nations who are sponsoring and arming most of the fighters coming into Iraq to kill both Americans and Iraqi's? What inmates made it out of the asylum? Can we check the cages? That's like us asking in 1945 the mostly defeated Germans and Japanese to sit at the table with the USSR and make sure we could exit honorably with no more American lives lost. There is zero difference. It is assinine and a bit insane to advocate this plan and to think anything other than more dead Americans, civillian and military, will be the result is equally delusional. Consider the quotes of the leaders of the terrorist organizations who are apparently open for interviews.
"The report proves that this is the era of Islam and of jihad," said Abu Ayman, a senior leader of Islamic Jihad in the northern West Bank town of Jenin.
"It is not just a simple victory. It is a great one. The big superpower of the world is defeated by a small group of mujahedeen (fighters). Did you see the mujahedeens' clothes and weapons in comparison with the huge individual military arsenal and supply that was carrying every American soldier?" exclaimed Abu Abdullah, who is considered one of the most important operational members of Hamas' Izzedine al-Qassam Martyrs Brigades, Hamas' declared "resistance" department.
"America must understand that with anti-American governments in Latin America and with Islam growing and reinforcing, including in the U.S. itself, the next step would be a total defeat on their (American) land, not a relative one like they are facing in Iraq," he said.
That's not just my ranting or predictions. That's not some conservative pundit or the President telling you that if we don't fight them there, we'll be fighting them here. That's them. That's the enemy and make no mistake the views they express are not in the minority. This has been the plan of such groups going back to the Muslim Brotherhood in the early part of the last century, and now they're getting the money, resources and followers to carry it out. Don't so naively accept the reformed Marxist view that everything in the world that's wrong is America's fault. There are plenty of monsters in the world ready to devour entire nations without one American having to set one foot outside the country or influence one other country.
And speaking of these particular monsters, Baker, the anti-Israeli, wants Israel to give up the Golan and the West Bank in order to play Neville Chamberlain and appease the terrorist nations of Syria, Iran and Arabia. I lump the Saudis in because most of the Wahhabist schools in the world and the most radical madrassah's are funded by the Saudi Royal family. That pretty much says it all about them.
It's unclear why the Palestinian problem is being lumped into the Iraqi conflict, but consider this. In light of all that's been done to Israel even in the last decade, it's hard to understand Baker's reasoning (other than his hatred for Israel) that Israel must be the one to give in, yet again and fall back once more before what really is evil in our time.
The current Hamas-led P.A. government had refused to recognize Israel, halt terrorism or abide by existing, signed agreements between Israel and the P.A., Steinitz noted.
According to the Oslo Accords, signed between Israel and the PLO in 1993, the Palestinians undertook to give up terrorism as a means of achieving their political goals.But terrorism never stopped, and P.A. security forces - established and armed under Oslo - were themselves frequently implicated in the violence against Israel, particularly over the past six years.
The Oslo Accords arose out of the process initiated with the Madrid peace conference in 1991 - a conference at which Baker played a key role and which the ISG wants to emulate: The report calls for "unconditional" meetings between Israel, Lebanon and Syria, and between Israel and the Palestinians "to negotiate peace as was done at the Madrid Conference."
Israel offered to give the Palestinians all that they wanted, and Arafat walked away, despite the revisionist history that is now spewed by the Left, because the Palestinian Arabs wanted Israel's destruction, and a small bit of land isn't going to be enough for them. This whole idea of "we'll give them a little more and a little more and a little more and eventually they'll be appeased" is how Constantinople fell to the Ottoman's and how Vienna almost fell. It's also how Israel will die and the United States, according to James Baker, should and will be the one to slit its throat. Who needs enemies when you have friends like the United States, eh?
Madness is all i can truly consider this as. There's no easier explanation. I hear Bush is defeated and stunned since November and that he's out of the loop. I hear these things will happen regardless now that the ISG has proposed them because they have a complicit Congress, an absentee President who has lost the will to fight and a willing, sleeping and ill-informed public. I'm going to have to try for being the optimist on this one and hoping none of that comes to pass and that the world steps back from the brink yet again. There's always faith to sustain us when reason can no longer and this time certainly does not show the mark of reason.
The release of the Iraq Study Group's report produced items far worse than I thought. When Hezbollah and Hamas began applauding the report, I knew we were in for even more trouble. It's not exactly been a secret in Washington that James Baker hates Israel. The whole lot of country club liberal Republicans that Bush Sr. had operating in his stall weren't keen on them, especially after they failed to make a working peace plan during 41's administration. But to see what came out of Baker's committee's report is shocking. James, Lee and company have advocated throwing Israel to the wolves while handing over Free Iraq to the two remaining biggest terror sponsors in the region, Iran and Syria (followed closely by the Saudis).
I'm not quite sure where to begin. We were in a war against Saddam's Iraq that we've won, and now are having to battle a mixed bag of Baathist/Sunni loyalists with a liberal sprinkling of foreign fighters (which we're kid gloving, unfortunately). This means we, the United States, possessor of the most powerful military in the world, are in danger of losing? To them??? I'd think it was just a really poor joke if I hadn't seen Baker's face when he read the punchline. They actually believe this crap.
And the only way to "win with honor" (man, Vietnam Vets should be screaming NO right about now) is to diplomatically engage the two terrorist nations who are sponsoring and arming most of the fighters coming into Iraq to kill both Americans and Iraqi's? What inmates made it out of the asylum? Can we check the cages? That's like us asking in 1945 the mostly defeated Germans and Japanese to sit at the table with the USSR and make sure we could exit honorably with no more American lives lost. There is zero difference. It is assinine and a bit insane to advocate this plan and to think anything other than more dead Americans, civillian and military, will be the result is equally delusional. Consider the quotes of the leaders of the terrorist organizations who are apparently open for interviews.
"The report proves that this is the era of Islam and of jihad," said Abu Ayman, a senior leader of Islamic Jihad in the northern West Bank town of Jenin.
"It is not just a simple victory. It is a great one. The big superpower of the world is defeated by a small group of mujahedeen (fighters). Did you see the mujahedeens' clothes and weapons in comparison with the huge individual military arsenal and supply that was carrying every American soldier?" exclaimed Abu Abdullah, who is considered one of the most important operational members of Hamas' Izzedine al-Qassam Martyrs Brigades, Hamas' declared "resistance" department.
"America must understand that with anti-American governments in Latin America and with Islam growing and reinforcing, including in the U.S. itself, the next step would be a total defeat on their (American) land, not a relative one like they are facing in Iraq," he said.
That's not just my ranting or predictions. That's not some conservative pundit or the President telling you that if we don't fight them there, we'll be fighting them here. That's them. That's the enemy and make no mistake the views they express are not in the minority. This has been the plan of such groups going back to the Muslim Brotherhood in the early part of the last century, and now they're getting the money, resources and followers to carry it out. Don't so naively accept the reformed Marxist view that everything in the world that's wrong is America's fault. There are plenty of monsters in the world ready to devour entire nations without one American having to set one foot outside the country or influence one other country.
And speaking of these particular monsters, Baker, the anti-Israeli, wants Israel to give up the Golan and the West Bank in order to play Neville Chamberlain and appease the terrorist nations of Syria, Iran and Arabia. I lump the Saudis in because most of the Wahhabist schools in the world and the most radical madrassah's are funded by the Saudi Royal family. That pretty much says it all about them.
It's unclear why the Palestinian problem is being lumped into the Iraqi conflict, but consider this. In light of all that's been done to Israel even in the last decade, it's hard to understand Baker's reasoning (other than his hatred for Israel) that Israel must be the one to give in, yet again and fall back once more before what really is evil in our time.
The current Hamas-led P.A. government had refused to recognize Israel, halt terrorism or abide by existing, signed agreements between Israel and the P.A., Steinitz noted.
According to the Oslo Accords, signed between Israel and the PLO in 1993, the Palestinians undertook to give up terrorism as a means of achieving their political goals.But terrorism never stopped, and P.A. security forces - established and armed under Oslo - were themselves frequently implicated in the violence against Israel, particularly over the past six years.
The Oslo Accords arose out of the process initiated with the Madrid peace conference in 1991 - a conference at which Baker played a key role and which the ISG wants to emulate: The report calls for "unconditional" meetings between Israel, Lebanon and Syria, and between Israel and the Palestinians "to negotiate peace as was done at the Madrid Conference."
Israel offered to give the Palestinians all that they wanted, and Arafat walked away, despite the revisionist history that is now spewed by the Left, because the Palestinian Arabs wanted Israel's destruction, and a small bit of land isn't going to be enough for them. This whole idea of "we'll give them a little more and a little more and a little more and eventually they'll be appeased" is how Constantinople fell to the Ottoman's and how Vienna almost fell. It's also how Israel will die and the United States, according to James Baker, should and will be the one to slit its throat. Who needs enemies when you have friends like the United States, eh?
Madness is all i can truly consider this as. There's no easier explanation. I hear Bush is defeated and stunned since November and that he's out of the loop. I hear these things will happen regardless now that the ISG has proposed them because they have a complicit Congress, an absentee President who has lost the will to fight and a willing, sleeping and ill-informed public. I'm going to have to try for being the optimist on this one and hoping none of that comes to pass and that the world steps back from the brink yet again. There's always faith to sustain us when reason can no longer and this time certainly does not show the mark of reason.
posted by Rob Beck | 7:42 AM
1 Comments:
There were many predictions that surrendering Gaza would not produce the sort of satisfied 'go home and live in peace' effect promised by appeasers.
If Israel isn't wary of the USA as an ally, I would be shocked.
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