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So, we sit on the edge of an outright real life war in the middle east and no word from yours truly?

Well, as I said before - Im not blogging much right now, I'm working. I'm all over the place as of late and will be for the next few weeks, so the Israeli-Syria-Iran War will just have to wait.

But here's a few quick thoughts:

1. Imagine how this would all be playing out if we hadnt taken the time to go into Iraq. Imagine having Saddam in this process. Imagine Syria in greater control of Lebanon. Imagine SCUDS coming in from the western Iraqi Desert to Jerusalem. Sounds like a hoot doesnt it.

2. This is Iran in action in the world with small simple solid fuel missiles. Now imagine the said same Iran with an atomic bomb.

3. Michael Totten was right when he wrote this post in April.

4. If Hezbollah is allowed to fire missiles into a sovereign state with impunity, what nation is free from this threat from any agrieved party?

5. Firing missiles over a border to kill civilians is no different than flying a bomber over borders to do the same. It is not an act of protest, it is an act of war. Feel free to respond accordingly.

6. Hiding behind intermediaries changes nothing. You allow mischief in your borders, you are as bad as the mischief makers. Fail to secure your borders and someone is likely to secure them for you.

7. Kalishnikovs and Katyushas. Gee, those are Russian words arent they? I dont know the Russian word for "Murdering Death Merchant" but I wish someone would look it up and then shout it at Mr. Putin.

8. If Mexico had crashed jets into the World Trade Center, can anyone guess what our response would have been? Do you think France would have cautioned us and asked for our "restriant"? Ok, Imagine that Belgium decided to get even with France and started firing WWII vintage V-1 'buzz bombs' into Paris. "Surrendering cheese eating monkey" jokes aside, how long would it take for France to send in "the legion" to fix a little annoying cartographic anomoly previously known as the "Belgium"?

9. You know what I like about this? Try and figure exactly what the official Hezbollahs position is here for a second. That they have the right to fire weapons into a soverign nation without fear of reprisal? They asked for that with a straight face? We should just look the other way while they slaughter people right? Fire missiles at will Ali, youre an agrieved party, you have a right to fire missiles at people...

10. The missiles prove that the wall works.


Ok, go enjoy wall-to-wall coverage of the Israeli "Hammer and Anvil" doing its thing to good old Damascus steel. Right I'm off to find out if I can sue Valerie Plame and Ambassador "Munchausen" for wasting my time. I think I've got atleast as good a case as they do.

Posted @ July 13, 2006 08:13 PM | Current Events

Comments

We should allow Palistine to form a state immediately.

If only so that Isreal can then declare war on them and force an unconditional surrender....

Posted by: _Jon at July 13, 2006 09:32 PM


btw, your comment filter will not allow me to use my hyspeed_games@yahoo[dot]com e-mail address.

Posted by: _Jon at July 13, 2006 09:33 PM

My own question is, "what is the difference between murder, and hiring a hitman to kill someone, and how does this relate to Iran and Syria, and their relationship with the terrorists."

It seems that the both Iran and Syria supply both money and instructions to the terrorist groups. How is this different from a country hiring a mercenary army to attack another country. Maybe we should take a lesson from this. We could have just hired a mercenary company to attack Iraq, and then claimed that it wasn't us that did it.

Oh wait we already tried that with Cuba once. Strangely none believed we were just a disinterested third party. Why are both Syria and Iran giving a pass now?

Posted by: barogner at July 14, 2006 04:57 AM

> 4. If Hezbollah is allowed to fire missiles into a sovereign state with impunity, what nation is free from this threat from any agrieved party?

What, you mean that Israel should take a ship out off the coasts of the whining EU places the and fire off *ONE* missle into each of them, telling those nations that their response should be more "proportionate" and telling them that they won't take it personally as long as the response of those EU nations is "proportionate" -- that they each get to fire ONE missle back into Israel?

...We'll see how long their idea of "proportionate" holds when THEY are the targets.

Then the USA can finish the discussion with OUR "proportionate" response to their disproportionate response to Israel's missles. ONE of OUR, ummm, "missles". You know -- one of those old Titans or something.


"Hey, it's JUST a li'l ol' missle, innit?"

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Two bit rat bastards.

Posted by: Vootie at July 16, 2006 10:55 AM