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August 12, 2006

Gingrich's Option

For the "emerging third world war." (WWWIII I thought I decared this last week),

Win!

Newt Gingrich Via Washington Post: This is the most important debate of our time. It rivals both Winston Churchill's argument in the 1930s over the nature of Hitler and the Nazis and Harry Truman's argument in the 1940s about the emerging Soviet empire.
Yet Holbrooke indicates that he would take the wrong path on American national security. He asserts that "containing the violence must be Washington's first priority."
As a goal this is precisely wrong. Defeating the terrorists and thwarting efforts by Iran and North Korea to gain nuclear and biological weapons must be the first goal of American policy. To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, if violence is necessary to defeat the terrorists, the Iranians and the North Koreans, then it is regrettably necessary. If they can be disarmed with less violence, then that is desirable...

At the moment Iran hasn't seemed to need the bomb to make progress. Are we really ready to surrender Lebanon to Hisballah in the name of less violence? Or should I say violence delayed? Also how can a cease fire be agreed to by Lebanon? They clearly do not control Hisballah's fighters? Yes vacation is over. Did I miss anything?

Posted by: Howie at 10:02 PM | Comments (14) | Add Comment
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1 Newt for president.

Posted by: Terry Barker at August 13, 2006 07:35 AM (Q0D3E)

2 Hezbollah says it will honor the cease fire but that this war is not over. THEN WHY HAVE A CEASE FIR. Crazy.

Posted by: greyrooster at August 13, 2006 08:04 AM (AG5IC)

3 Rooster. agreed. I think they also had conditions or qualifications in their acceptance.

Posted by: Howie at August 13, 2006 08:17 AM (D3+20)

4 This is not going to end well for someone.

Posted by: SeeMonk at August 13, 2006 09:41 AM (n4VvM)

5 Lefturds have always espoused "containment", which is a euphamism for inaction, and part of their strategy to allow the enemy to become stronger while we become weaker and weary of the situation. Lefturds have never been pro-America, and have been squarely on the side of America's enemies since 1945.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at August 13, 2006 10:11 AM (v3I+x)

6 Howie,
It's Islam and its demonic spawn the clerical regime of Mullahs that need nuclear weapons not the Iranian people.

Posted by: Garduneh Mehr at August 13, 2006 11:41 AM (Bp6wV)

7 Your vacation must have reset your brain cells.

You ask "how can Lebanon ask for a cease fire?"

Well, first off, Lebanon is being run right now by the Hez, they have everyone scared to death that is not actually an active member of Hez. So, guess what, Hez says 'we need some time to re-group, re-arm and re-inforce, so lets ask for a cease fire.'

Meanwhile back at the UN everyone is making sure the Hez get a break and Lebanon really doesn't have to do anything, since everyone knows that they can't do anything anyway.

Bolton is being hit on the head by Dr. Rice twice daily, telling him to shut up and just go along. Bush doesn't know anything for sure, Dr. Rice is telling him one thing, the CIA is telling him nothing, Rummy is foaming at the mouth, telling him to give the order so he can start the balls rolling to put an end to all this crap....well you get the idea, nothing really has happened that would surprise you.

Or me.

In fact, I predicted that this little scuffle wouldn't last over a month. Of course I also predicted that if stopped, it wouldn't stay stopped for more than a few days.

I'm a little tired of being right.

Papa Ray
West Texas
USA

Posted by: Papa Ray at August 13, 2006 12:10 PM (B6ERo)

8 Regarding the current so-called "cease-fire" Mrs Tzipi Livni the Isreali foreign minister said: "... I am NOT naive! I live in the middle east."
Now, Tzipi is one smart cookie and she has the guts to match. As uncomfortable as this "cease-fire" makes me, the optimist in me wants to think that Isreal has gone along with this sham with a greater strategic plan in mind; hopefully!

Posted by: Garduneh Mehr at August 13, 2006 12:27 PM (Bp6wV)

9 It may yet bring down the current government in Israel if it was just a blunder.

Posted by: SeeMonk at August 13, 2006 02:18 PM (n4VvM)

10 Heck, I'm with Terry, Newt in '08, theres not much else to choose from, and with Newt, you will never have to guess where he stands, He's not only smart, but articulate too.

Posted by: kraussm at August 13, 2006 09:24 PM (Q0B7p)

11 I think I'm getting it ... cease-fire means ramp-up, pull out all the stops, damn the torpedoes full speed ahead and blast away!

Crazy world we live in!

Posted by: Last gasp Larry at August 14, 2006 12:00 AM (gLMre)

12 Well the way I see it, is that Israelis had no fucking idea what they were up against, obviously Hizbullah made sure they didn't. Secondly this operation may have been in the planning from the Israeli side for a couple of years but Hizbullah knew they were going to come back sooner or later hence they planned accordingly. It turns out after getting their asses kicked big time within 4 weeks of combat Israelis decided to pull back, reassess their strategy, which was a smart move but they have already allowed the Hizbullah to advance to a more strategicaly stronger position by engaging and disengaging them in combat without any permanent outcomes. I would predict that now Hizbulla is in a better position to negotiate, demand and excercise a more broader control in political circles and on the ground than they previously were able to do so. Having the credit of standing up to a better armed and trained adversary and coming out of the situation with far lesser losses than anticipated previously. You have managed to make Hizbulla better at war by allowing them to compete and still remain in the game by not totally distryoing their organizational setups. Good luck for future conflicts as it would only serve to improve the Hizbulla standing in technological proficiency and know how of battle tactics and providing them with battle hardened troops and generals to lead their armys.

Posted by: Fallen Idolz at August 14, 2006 03:50 AM (QQqlY)

13 Fallen Idolz: While I agree with 90% of your rant. Israel getting its ass kicked? Get real. Israel not having good intelligence? If you're going to smoke that stuff. Share.
If you go back a month you will see that I was screaming "what the hell is Israel doing" "They should be attacking full strength to get it over with". Their plan was poor. I believe they didn't wish to get stuck in Lebanon and that is the reason they hesitated.

Posted by: greyrooster at August 14, 2006 08:48 AM (N0n43)

14 Idolz' comment showcases perfectly the cowardly strategy of the arabs: make a surprise attack, hide behind women and children, cry like babies when you get your ass kicked, and declare victory when the enemy decides to let you live. Arabs and muslims are a detriment to the gene pool and should be exterminated like the vermin they are.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at August 14, 2006 11:21 AM (v3I+x)

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