America’s Self-Defense Entails Crushing Islamic Totalitarianism
By Elan Journo
In response to the Hamas bombardment of Israel, Washington must encourage and help Israel to annihilate that Islamist group, once and for all.
The failure to wipe out Hamas on previous occasions has encouraged Palestinian terror groups. It teaches Islamists that their terrorist war will be rewarded, that their quest to destroy Israel--and ultimately America--is achievable.
In fact, the acts of war by Hamas against Israel are precisely what people should expect from Bush’s so-called democracy strategy in the Middle East.
The administration campaigned for elections in the strongholds of various Islamist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, groups that it should have worked to destroy. In the Palestinian territories, Bush insisted that Hamas be allowed to participate in the 2006 elections--and the jihadist group won a landslide. Thanks to that political victory, Hamas gained an unearned legitimacy for its vicious war to exterminate Israelis and Westerners. Winning power with the aid of their enemy confirmed for these Islamists that the West will abet its own destroyers.
America’s self-defense entails crushing Islamic totalitarianism--not ushering its jihadists into political office and galvanizing them to redouble their war against us.
To put an end to Hamas’s brazen aggression, the jihadist group must be defeated. It is proper and necessary for America to aid and bolster Israel, its one true ally in the Middle East, in the face of a common enemy.
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Why is "Rescue Palestine" an option? Is the bias on this issue not blatant enough?
If the crusing defense is so useful, I suggest the US crush everyone from the Transals to Morocco, Pakistan, and North Korea. Then everyone is equally an insurgent freedom fighter and only we have the "fighting" back excuse for blowing up children and such.
People who form strong opinions on this thread need to seriously look at the individuals on each side of the conflict.
On the one hand, the Jews have been migrating to Palestine since 1881 in the hopes of finding their own state. But we know that the largest migration of Jews to Palestine occurred during WWII, when Eastern European countries refused to give Jews sanctuary from the Nazis (nice job, Europe). So largely the migration of Jews to Palestine was out of an attempt at survival.
But imagine what it must have felt like being Palestinian in the year 1967 when the Jews finally decided that Palestine would now be known as Israel. It wouldn't be like someone moving into your house and taking everything from you. It would be like someone moving into your house that you inherited from your father, and his father before him, etc, for the last THOUSAND years...and taking everything from you. You try to get it back, but then the big kid on the block (America) goes ahead and hands your enemies nuclear warheads to defend your land from you (great job, America). You can see why the Palestinians would be a bit peeved.
So Hamas isn't exactly a terrorist faction in my mind. We handed Israel nukes, but not the Palestinians and didn't expect asymmetric warfare...why? I'm not saying it's ALL America's fault - Europe certainly had a hand in promising the Palestinians everything and giving them nothing. I do think it's a bit hypocritical for us to point fingers at who's wrong and who's right when we had a hand in the whole mess.
Sorry, but there's never been a tooth fairy, Santa Claus or a place called " palestine ."
I suppose you would tell me Wyoming did not exist till invaders came, wiped a nation or two, and gave it an "official" name, capitalized with machinery of war ...
I entirely agree with this argument. How can Israel reach a peace treaty with Hamas when Hamas is not interested in peace? Hamas is only interested in destroying Israel and, ultimately, Western Civilization. Anyone who supports peace and human rights must support the annihilation of the enemies of peace and human rights -- Hamas. It is morally proper for Israel to use whatever military force it needs to accomplish this goal as quickly and as decicively as possible. Whatever civilian casualties occur can only be blamed on Hamas. They are the ones who initiated this conflict.
Hamas is a terrorist organization that calls for genocide according to his Islamo-Fascist ideology. (See The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS): http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp ).
The HAMAS is part of the Moslem Brotherhood global Movement which is seeking to rule the world under the Islamic law. Hamas’ aggression toward Israel is merely part of totalitarian Islam’s broader war against the West.
It is not only the willingness to use rockets and grad missiles to target Israeli cities; it is also the indoctrination of children to hate and the glorifying of death of his subjects in order to achieve the regime political goals.
Falling to take a stand for the Human liberty and Individual rights, for life and property as we know it in the west, will only bring the threat of this theocratic Ideology and the missiles and terror that accompanies it closet to our cities and our doors steps…
Anochi
"Failing to take a stand for the Human liberty and individual rights, for life and property as we know it in the west....."
???
Failing to take a stand against *all* injustice is appropriate. One wrong action doesn't justify another.
Where was your voice when Israel started building The Wall? Where is your voice now? Where is your voice to say "Yo, Israel... re-open the borders that you've somehow managed to gain control of, okay? People are hungry and in need of supplies in there."
We (the U.S.) pick and choose what's "right" and what's "wrong".... or rather we pick and choose who. Then we change these definitions based on whether or not the "who" benefits us. Palestine has nothing to offer us, so we ignore what we need to. The fact that life and liberty is at stake here means little, so please leave the illusion of grandeur at home today.
Note: When I say Israel, I refer to the government.
The whole thing is like saying, 'Who is right: Catholics or Protestants?' A bit ridiculous to even take sides. Neither is right, but not breaking up the fight when it gets bloody? Not appropriate.
"Boys are stupid. Throw interstates at them." - Reggie A. Foote
Moral relativism, such as you express, serves only the side of evil.
When the murderous side is bent on your murder, and rejects every peaceful agreement, it is sheer folly to expect them to peacefully lay down their arms, because you have. You will be dead or forced into dhimmitude along with its jizyah. The latter is nothing short of extortion.
More on their insanity:
http://www.opposingviews.com/comments/don-t-investigate-follies-ask-what-they-seek-to-achieve
You agreed with me and didn't even realize you did so. That's how little you comprehend.
However, I'll bite, for fun. What have I missed. BTW, yes, the link was to my own earlier comment. It describes widely known facts, so why need I repeat them or cite sources. There is no shame in that, so your 'cough' remark is uncalled for. You can so easily grasp the facts just from following the news, let alone the wealth of information on the Internet.
Thus far, I think it demonstrable that you have no facts of reality to contest the fact that the Muslims of the Middle East are the primary aggressors, and have been for much longer than the last 100 yrs. It appears to me, that with no such facts for your case, you attack the speaker (me) and ignore or smear facts that actually challenge your position. Technically, it is a form of ad hominem .
Nice link to your own posting. *coughbullshitcough* I like how you call your own link craziness. That was an unintended, but decidedly funny tough.
Individual rights, eh? It's funny you should mention that when you completely ignore the individual rights of Palestinians.
The denizens of Gaza should be extremely happy that I wasn't running things in Israel. There have been many calls for a proportional response to the constant rocket launches and provocations by Hamas. I don't believe in proportional responses. I believe in a total annihilating response. If you kill 1 of mine I kill 100 of yours. If you lob 50 rockets at me, I level a city. If 100's of years of warfare have shown anything, it is that proportional responses accomplish nothing. Ask the Japanese about Hiroshima & Nagasaki. That is how you end a conflict.
Want to go out to lunch sometime? I'll pay for it I'm sure we could discuss a lot
Wow. Clearly tkjunkmail has no regard for life. Ayn Rand Center and this person are total sociopaths. I wish Opposing views would do a better job of picking 'experts'.
While I agree with you in while, simply dismissing a person or groups' statements as "sociopathic" is counterproductive. We need to bring opinions like these out in the open where they can be countered and fought against, not brush them off and relegate them to a dark corner where they can continue to do damage.
Sorry, that should have read:
"While I agree with you in whole..."
The first refuge of the left when bereft of actual intellectual ammunition is to call someone a perjorative name and move on as this has proven their case ipso facto.
I speak as the veteran of decades worth of the discussions with self-anointed enlightened.
The first refuge of the right when bereft of any reasonable action that might actually force them to behave in accordance to their OWN moral and ethical standards: BOMB and move on as this proves that the Right is correct ipso facto.
I speak as a Veteran.
Another tactic of the left is to answer assertions of fact by dragging in unrelated issues without ever addressing the assertions in question.
Even if your comment is correct (which it is to some extent in some cases), it still doesn't speak one way or the other on the whether mine was.
Which only reinforces my point.
Sincere thanks for your service by the way. I have a Master Sergeant nephew who's done tours in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Middle East. Our vets bleed not left or right blood, rather human blood.
I agree with SocialistBetty that this position is anything but a reasonable one or one that acknowledges human rights.
Israel and Hamas' GOVERNMENTS are equally responsible for this conflict: not their people. But it is the innocent civilians that are suffering and dying simply because of where they were born. It is insane to suggest that we should 'crush' a nation full of these innocent people.
Apparently, the Ayn Rand Institute doesn't believe in those things and toes the line when it comes to the Pro-Israeli policies that have created the shituation in the first place. Not surprising since very little the Ayn Rand institute has to say follows observation and reason.