Dreaming of diplomacy
Another good response to notorious idiot Gleen Grenwald’s latest false assertion:
Greenwald has a point. After all we all remember how successfully we used diplomacy to bring an end to causes of terrorism back in…
…well, I mean sometime we must have…
…nope, on second thought, diplomacy has never brought an end to terrorism.
Greenwald tries to sell the myth that terrorism represents the desperate acts of desperate people. In fact, terrorism is the tool of power-crazed sociopaths who exploit any pretext in order to murder their way to wealth and power. Terrorists stop only when their leadership is directly threatened, killed or stripped of the ability to attack. When terrorist groups show up at the bargaining table it is only after they have been pushed to the brink of extinction.
Yep. Another good point certain “serious thinkers” would rather you forget:
We should remember that for nearly three decades people like Greenwald claimed that if Israel merely ended the occupation of the Palestinian territories it would get peace. Instead it got human bombs and rocket attacks. Ditto for the withdrawal from Lebanon.
Terrorists stop for only two reasons: (1) They win and graduate to despotic rule (Mugabe), or (2) they’re physically prevented from acting. Israel has decided to go for reason (2). The rest of us should hope it succeeds.
Well, those of us who, unlike Grenwald and his craven ilk, think of Israel as a legitimate state with a right to defend itself against genocidal assault, that is. And here’s a notion I really hadn’t thought of before:
Those quick to point out how Olmert’s miscalculations have hurt the people he governs will typically suggest that military incursions “radicalize” Arab sentiment, leading to more suicide bombers and more dead Israelis.
Assuming this is true, why is it that the corollary is never asked: namely, how does Hamas radicalize Israeli sentiment?
Precisely. If Muslim terrorism is caused by the radicalization of poor and disenfranchised people due to unjust violence against them — people who otherwise would be ordinary, peaceable types, or, in the liberal fantasy, “just like us” — then when will we see the Jewish suicide bombers that will and must be created by Hamas rockets? And why aren’t liberals concerned about that prospect too, or about the suffering in Israeli towns that have so long been under perpetual threat of attack, suffering that leads inexorably to retaliatory terrorism? They can’t be wrong about this too, can they? Do they not believe their own rhetoric?
Uhh, no need to answer that one. No, really.
Lastly — for now — looks like I wasn’t the only one mulling over the Tom and Jerry analogy I mentioned yesterday.
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Also, Israel is something more than a chained rabid mindless animal. Perhaps the cartoon should have showed a peaceful family restraining their angry dog while Hamas threw rocks at their children and taunted them.
I’m sorry if this makes anyone feel like I don’t have a sense of humor (I do). But they murdered six million of my people while they were helpless, and they’d murder six million more if we let them. So you can understand if I’m a little twitchy on the subject.