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Proportional Response

US Marine Corp Barracks (Beirut) October 23, 1983.

In the last few days the call we’ve seen the rise of a new phenomenon in the world press. Israel is not being criticized for its need to attack Hezbollah, but rather that it needs to take a “proportional response” to the attacks.

Let me just say this about that. Oh, and if your kids read this blog or if you are sensitive to language of the nautical culture in which I was raised, please move your browser ahead past the next paragraph.

I'm afraid it’s going to get a little salty.

Ok, kids out of the room? Fine. So here goes.

Of all the chickensh*t moronic crap ideas that the left has ever shoveled out of its half mad henhouse of illogical nonsense and somnambulic concepts that make up most of what serves as the core of what is known as “leftists idealism” I have never – EVER – heard anything so damn head-up-your-a** dumb in all my life.

And I know from chickenshit moronic crap. Ive seen it shoveled by the very best in the business. And I’ve lived through Carter, Dukakis, Gore, Kerry and Dean, but this is just beyond the pale.

Ok, the kids can come back in now.

Proportional response? PROPORTIONAL RESPONSE?

Do you have any idea who it is we are talking about here? Hezbollah. HEZBOLLAH. This is not the ‘Jaycees of Lebanon’ you wet-noodle dope smoking freaks. These are murdering bloodthrirsty and I do mean BLOODTHIRSTY thugs. You notice al-Qaeda hasn’t spoke a word in support of these corpse loving, coprophagic freaks? That’s because they are too far out even for good old Osama himself. Even that freak has standards and these guys aren’t on even their mailing lists for his annual holiday Ramadan Cards.

Compared to Hassan Nasrallah, Osama is like Barney Fife.

You do not set terms of moral authority with these animals to those of us in the West who love life and human diversity. You do not talk to their “Press attaché” like they were just some local political party.

Are you out of your mind CNN? What next? Are we going to see CNN meet with the “Charles Manson press attaché” so they can take us through the Sharon Tate murder site so the “press attaché” can tell us it was really just a poorly interpreted piece of performance art that was interrupted by the mean old police, and that the phrase “kill the pigs” is just a result of years of police brutality.

Oh if only the mean old police would learn to love the murdering hippies there would be 'peace on earth' now wouldn’t there?

Proportional Response? Hezbollah is firing missiles into civilian populace across an internationally recognized and maintained border. Hezbollah is killing people in a sovereign UN nation, not that anyone cares. Hezbollah is capturing uniformed soldiers of an organized Army, and violating the Geneva Convention, again not that anyone cares.

And who is it who is calling for a “Cease Fire’? That’s right the same animals who’ve started the war, the same ones who are calling for the destruction of Israel out of one side of their mouths are saying “ oh please don’t hurt us” out of the other. “Oh the poor little things, how could Israel just pop up all of a sudden and attack those nice little misunderstood people” seems to be what the press undercurrent is in their coverage of this little event.

Maybe, just maybe people should consider that Israel is fully aware of who these animals are and just what they want to do.

Yet somehow, Israel is always supposed to be the ‘adult in the room’. Somehow the teensy weensy little old political parties who just want what’s right for their families are always just like poorly misunderstood kids who soaped a few car windows or tied a tin can to the cat’s tail. Precocious little scamps, they just have bingo games at the mosque on Fridays, they are beloved by the people, they only want to negotiate with Israel for the return of what is rightfully theirs, right?

I do not know what it is, but there is some collective loss of memory on just who Hezbollah is. Hezbollah is Iran. Iran is Hezbollah. Hezbollah is to Iran what the Nazi “Das Reich’ Division was to the Wehrmact. Get this through your heads CNN, Helen Thomas, Patrick J. Buchanan - Israel DOES NOT BORDER IRAN! IRAN HAS HAD NO CLAIM ON WHAT IS TODAY ISRAEL, SINCE CYRUS THE GREAT!

Hezbollah had to INVADE another country just to be able to fight with Israel! They now control the lower half of that country. That country, is the poor people of Lebanon who had managed to live in peace with the Israeli neighbors, until they were chewed into paste by their lovely Arab brothers who turned it into a charnel house instead of what was once the “Paris of the Mediterranean’.

And when you and your goat humping, three fingered leaders go screaming at the camera and get all hot and bothered by “occupation” why don’t any of you talk about the occupation of Lebanon by Syria and Hezbollah?

Oh yeah, “inconvenient fact”. Sorry about that. I didn’t mean to point out that you were the very worst sort of propagandistic genocidal maniacs.

Wait! that’s not true, that’s EXACTLY what I wanted to do.

Instead of chastising Israel, we should be sending them more arms! We should provide them satellite photos of Syrian tanks, overlaid with graphics that say; “ hit me” on top of each one.

We should thank the Israelis. Not because the Israelis are fighting their enemy, but because Hezbollah – Iran – is and has always been our enemy too!

Hezbollah has killed, and continues to kill Americans. Hezbollah makes no bones about calling us their enemy. Yet, despite all they have done, we continue to look the other way.

So get this through your head;

Hezbollah is like Al-Qaeda, only Hezbollah has a sponsor. It has Iran, it has Syria. Hezbollah is what Al-Qaeda would be if we would have stayed out of Afghanistan. Hezbollah is what Al-Queda would be in Iraq if we had stayed out of there too. Hezbollah is the very definition of State sponsored terrorism. Given the chance, Hezbollah what every terror group hopes to be. Free to move at will, given cover by the local population, who they promptly use as human shields, free to extort the host government for cover from the intrusive international government law enforcement.

Imagine Charles Manson and his gang, The Baader-meinhof gang, The IRA, the Weather Underground, the KKK, the Nazi Party and the “Peoples Temple” all being gathered together. Now, feed them a solid diet of meth and put them in an isolated desert camp for 30 years.

That’s Hezbollah.

Now, some jackass decides to give them a warehouse of Katushya missiles and tells them that all their problems will be solved when you and your neighborhood are removed from the earth.

When this starts to happen, are you going to act “Proportionally” in response? As in, just sit around and do nothing while these animals fire rockets loaded with large caliber buckshot into your kid’s playground? Your grocery store? Your home?

They dont want to negotiate - they want you dead. Theres no peace treaty, theres no trade route to give them, no "common ground" unless its your grave. Thats all they want. You and your family - dead.

The only possible sane act for a decent person to take, the only act that any person interested in justice and peace could consider is to do whatever it takes to end this threat to life and civilization.

Missiles are not forms of protest, they are weapons of war. No more – no less.

Before I conclude this particular screed, I wish to leave behind a sort of ‘Devils Resume’ for Hezbollah for those of you who don’t remember who these animals are. These people are our enemies, not because we choose them to be, but because they have already been killing us for some time. Just to put us all in the proper frame of mind when we hear the worlds “Hezbollah”, I think its time to review their actions towards, not Israelis, but Americans.

This is what Hezbollah has done to us. I can assure you, what they have done to the Israelis is far, far worse. I’ve gathered this information from Wikipedia, and various news sources. These sources go into much more detail on each of these subjects. I’ve simply compiled the list on this post to make it easier to follow for the subject at hand.

Terry Anderson

On March 16, 1985, Anderson had just finished a tennis game when he was abducted from the street in Beirut, placed in the trunk of a car and taken to a secret location where he was imprisoned. For the next six years and nine months he was held captive, being moved periodically to new sites. His captors were Hezbollah.

He filed suit against the Iranian government for his captivity, and in 2002 was awarded a multimillion dollar settlement from frozen Iranian assets since it was the finding of the court that Hezbollah was an entity of the Iranian Government.

Thomas Sutherland

He was the second-longest held captive after Terry Anderson. By the time of his release on November 18, 1991 at the same time as Terry Waite, he had been held hostage for 2354 days. His memories of the experience have been published through his book entitled ‘At Your Own Risk’ which was co-authored by his wife Jean. He claims to have attempted suicide a number of times and to have spent a substantial amount of time in solitary confinement.

In June 2001, the Sutherland family won a $353 million verdict in a lawsuit against the government of Iran.

Father Lawrence Jenco

Was taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah in January 1985, while serving as director of Catholic Relief Services there. He was held for 564 days before being released and allowed to return to the United States.

He was held for 564 days before being released and allowed to return to the United States.

He spent much of his time chained and blindfolded, and was allowed to use the toilet only once a day. Fr. Jenco suffered serious eye infections and other health problems as a result of his captivity. In changing from one hiding place to another, he was bound with tape and placed in stifling hiding places in trucks, lest he be found by soldiers or police inspecting a vehicle. He also suffered beatings by the guards.

After his death, federal judge Royce C. Lamberth awarded the estate and family of Rev. Lawrence Jenco $314.6 million in damages from Iran for the 18 months he was held hostage in Lebanon in the mid-1980s. The ruling includes $14.6 million in compensatory damages to Jenco and his six siblings or their estates and $300 million in punitive damages. Jenco "was treated little better than a caged animal" said Lamberth in his ruling, which laid the blame upon the Iranian government. The Iranian government defaulted on the lawsuit, declining to answer any of the allegations.

Robert Stethem

Petty Officer Robert Stethem (November 17, 1961 – June 15, 1985) was a United States Navy diver and Steelworker Second Class. He was killed after the commercial airliner he was aboard, TWA Flight 847, was hijacked. In the Navy, he was assigned to the Navy Underwater Construction Team No. 1 at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia. He was returning from an assignment in Nea Makri, Greece aboard TWA Flight 847 when it was hijacked by members of the Lebanese political and terror organization Hizbullah. They demanded the release of 435 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.

When their demands were not met, Stethem was singled out. The hijackers learned he was a member of the U.S. military. They beat him with a chair leg. Then they shot him and dumped his body on the tarmac at the Beirut airport.

Mohammed Ali Hamadi of Hezbollah was convicted in 1989 in Germany for the beating and shooting of Robert Stethem. On December 20, 2005 Hamadi was released and allowed to return to his native Lebanon on the following day. The German government has denied there was any link between Hamadi's release and the freeing of Suzanne Osthoff, a German archaeologist, the week after his release.

William Richard "Rich" Higgins (January 15, 1945 – July 6, 1990) was a United States Marine Corps colonel.

On February 17, 1988, Higgins was captured and held hostage by Hezbollah while he was serving on a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon. He was killed on or before July 6, 1990.

William Francis Buckley (May 30, 1928 – June 3, 1985) was a U.S. Army officer and intelligence agency operative. He was kidnapped by the Islamist group Hezbollah on March 16, 1984, while serving as CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, and was subject to torture and interrogation at the hands of his captors for 444 days; the man overseeing his torture was Imad Mugniyah, a former leader of Hezbollah. Buckley was eventually smuggled to Tehran via Damascus aboard an Iranian plane. He died in captivity in Beirut after illness and torture.

One of his tormentors during his time with Hezbollah was Aziz al-Abub who was a Hezbollah psychiatrist and mind control expert. Aziz was a graduate of the Soviet Union's People's Friendship University. Aziz al-Abub used drugs and physical torture on hostage William Buckley over his captivity.

US Marine Barracks Beirut

On October 23, 1983, around 6:20 am, a yellow Mercedes-Benz delivery truck drove to Beirut International Airport, where the 1st Battalion 8th Marines, under the U.S. 2nd Marine Division of the United States Marines, had set up its local headquarters. The truck turned onto an access road leading to the Marines' compound and circled a parking lot. The driver then accelerated and crashed through a barbed wire fence around the parking lot, passed between two sentry posts, crashed through a gate and barreled into the lobby of the Marine headquarters. The Marine sentries at the gate had loaded pistols but were not able to stop the driver even though they shot at him. According to one Marine, the driver was smiling as he sped past him.

The suicide bomber detonated his explosives, which were equivalent to 12,000 pounds (about 5,400kg) of TNT. The force of the explosion collapsed the four-story cinder-block building into rubble, crushing many inside. The death toll was 241 American servicemen: 220 Marines, 18 Navy personnel and 3 Army soldiers. Sixty Americans were injured.

In May 2003, US District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth declared that the Islamic Republic of Iran was responsible for the 1983 attack, on the grounds that Iran had originally founded Hezbollah and financed the group throughout the years

French Parachute Barracks Beirut

About 20 seconds later from the attack on the US Marine Barracks, an identical attack occurred against the barracks of the French Third Company of the Sixth French Parachute Infantry Regiment. Another suicide bomber drove his truck down a ramp into the building's underground parking garage and detonated his bomb, leveling the headquarters. In the attack on the French barracks, 58 paratroopers were killed and 15 injured

Proportional response? Based on these items and many many more just like them, we are way behind our quota in the removal of Hezbollah and its Iranian zookeepers. Proportional to me means weve got a lot of work to do in killing Hezbollah. Thats not what people mean when the say "proportional" but thats what I take away from it.

You can do what you want, but for me, I stand with Isreal.

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