So What's the Take?

[Army_of_One]

I'll take sides...I wish we were more like Isreal. We are too politically correct and that is why we are having a hard time in Iraq. If Hezbollah is firing rockets from civilian churches...oh well..Isreal takes out the church. They are on a mission to rid the earth of the Hezbollah cockroaches. If we had that fervor in our battle on terrorism we MIGHT be a little more successful. They are justified in what they are doing. Think about this...what if mexico grabbed a couple of our soldiers and then started lobbing rockets on Tex, NM, Cal and Az border towns targeting civilians. Do you think we would stand by? Only way that would happen is if we had a democrap...errr democrat in the White House.... GO ISREAL GO.......

[Bubba]

I also feel that Israel has turned the other cheek for quite sometime and I applaud their patience. You can only take it for so long. I feel they are more than justified in their attacks.

[Outofdodge]

Originally Posted by Army_of_One

I'll take sides...I wish we were more like Isreal. We are too politically correct and that is why we are having a hard time in Iraq.

We're having a hard time in Iraq because:

a. we never should have been in there in the first place and
b. the people who pushed this thing did not have a clue what being an occupying force was going to be like and....
c. apparently were a little naive (and I am being polite here) in thinking that centuries of hatred between various factions was not going to end with the removal of their dictator. and
d. too many strings were tied around the military and it was under manned it in the beginning whcich combined with b and c, allowed this trouble to sow.

But this thread deals with Israel so back to the show...

Originally Posted by Army_of_One

If we had that fervor in our battle on terrorism we MIGHT be a little more successful.

In spite of all their bravo and retalliation, have terrorist attacks on Israel ever really stopped? No. When and if this one ends, it will only be a matter of time before they endure another attack. The incesant retalliation does not stop the attacks, it does however make them a bit more painful and makes the Israelis' more "manly".

In my feeble mind, I think it shows the folly of one sided "peace" accords where one country (Israel) gave up territory under the guise of peace and it wasn't enough for their enemies eventually. While I think their policies and tactics sometimes make a bad situation worse, zero sum games and logic will not work in that region with warring factions. But alas, while there will probably be some kind of cease fire and peace accord, the seeds of further hatred and attacks are being sown and the cycle repeats itself.

I'll ignore the democrat comment for now.

[notyoubob]

I just wish we, the US of A, had learned the hard lessons of the 1970s when OPAC held us and the world hostage by turning down the oil taps and the federal government and private energy companies had poured a ton of money into R&D to tap alternative energy sources and told the Middle East to peddle their only wares elsewhere.
Then we wouldn't have to dance when some other country pulled the oil strings.
Ah, to dream of what might have been.
But, alas, reality has a way of popping its ugly head up at the most inopportune moment.