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| 2006-08-20 |
| By BEN STEIN IT’S been a bitter month or so. Mighty Israel, the redeemer of faith in what free men and women can do with arid desert if they are motivated, redeemer of faith that maybe there is a place for the Jews as a sovereign people and technological superpower, has been fought to a standstill by Hezbollah. Can it possibly be that Hezbollah is better motivated, better led, better dug in and better armed than the Israeli army, which is supposed to be the best army, pound for pound, in the world? Can it be that Israel, which used to beat whole armies of countries like Egypt and Syria, has been humbled by a few thousand very well-motivated and well-armed men firing from between apartment buildings? Or could it be that what’s different this time is the trumpet and, specifically, its uncertain sound? Israel geared up for a huge offensive, then called it off, then huffed and puffed, then called it off again, then said, “Watch out, this time we’re really going to blow your house down,” and then called it off again. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #6 terrorists' civil rights File that precious oxymoron along side "Arab Unity", "Islamic Concensus" and "Moderate Muslim™". |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-08-20 21:59 |
| #5 Maybe Alexander Solzhenitsyn put his finger on the problem back in 1978? A snippet: When a government starts an earnest fight against terrorism, public opinion immediately accuses it of violating the terrorists' civil rights. There are many such cases. |
| Posted by: tipper 2006-08-20 20:04 |
| #4 Mighty Israel ... has been fought to a standstill by Hezbollah. No Ben. Actually Israel was stopped --- a week from total victory --- by its |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-08-20 19:18 |
| #3 Whahahaha Tony, don't sugar coat the scones mate. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-08-20 16:28 |
| #2 What a heap of shite. This bloke is obviously not with the programme. This is a Long War Mr Stein. There are going to be setbacks, there are going to be more attacks, and yes some of them are going to be 'mega-attacks'. A lot of innocent people are going to die. But let's look at the other side of the coin, just today we hear of a group of people who leave a plane because they don't like their fellow passengers - a crack in the edifice of PC? I hope so. We also hear from lotp that applicants to West Point are starting to come from more 'elite' backgrounds and have a low attrition rate - these people know what War we're in. The poison dwarf Ahmadinejahd is about to get the mother of all smack-downs, the Soddys are bricking it, the pencil-neck geek Assad is in total denial and the Israelis are very likely to bring in a hard-line government (they're not going to take it any more Mr Stein) which will annihilate Hezbollah when they step out of turn. Sheesh! - do some bloody research man! Read some blogs and stop going to those no-nothing echo-chamber NYT cocktail parties! Twit. |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2006-08-20 13:13 |
| #1 "The fish rots from the head." Old Irish proverb. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-08-20 12:27 |