Will the last real Republican to leave this administration please turn off the lights?
Oh, crap, here we go; all aboard for one more looong, pointless ride on the UN Train to Nowhere:
For the past month the United States has worked urgently to end the violence that Hezbollah and its sponsors have imposed on the people of Lebanon and Israel. At the same time, we have insisted that a truly effective cease-fire requires a decisive change from the status quo that produced this war. Last Friday we took an important step toward that goal with the unanimous passage of U.N. Resolution 1701. Now the difficult, critical task of implementation begins.
No word on what the fripping frack ever happened to Meaningless UN Resolution 1701’s predecessor, Meaningless UN Resolution 1559, which “demanded” the disarming of Hezbollah a couple years ago, and which had no more teeth or practical utility than any of the other ones. But then, these One-World asshelmets prefer not to fritter any of their oh-so-precious time away trying to learn from their past failures — or, for that matter, in any way acknowledging them. They just blunder on, attempting the same stupid nonsense over and over and over, blindly asserting that this time — THIS TIME! — things will be different.
The agreement we reached has three essential components:
First, it puts in place a full cessation of hostilities. We also insisted on the unconditional release of the abducted Israeli soldiers.
Uh-huh. And how’s that working out for ya so far? Any small sign of even the slightest whiff of a hint of a ghost of a chance of cooperation from the terrorists? No? Why, by golly, we’re just gonna have to get tough with them, then. Somebody draft up another resolution, stat!
Idiots. No point in continuing with a fisking of this barren blather; for anyone who has even a nodding acquaintance with ME history, it sort of fisks itself anyway.
Update! Via Bryan, a sharp reminder of who really won this whole scrap, in case you needed one beyond Israel’s obvious surrender to UN fecklessness at RINO George’s behest:
SYRIA has warned Israel that the occupation of the Golan Heights “cannot last forever” and said Syrians will emulate Hizbollah to recover their land.
“We say to the forces occupying our land that our people warn you that they will not allow our land to be occupied forever,” the government’s daily Ath-Thawra said.
“You must understand that our people will fight the way the Lebanese resistance (Hizbollah) fought you,” it added.
Syria has repeatedly demanded the return of the Golan Heights which Israel conquered in the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war and annexed in 1981.
Which war, just like the recent one, was initiated (and lost) by the self-same tyrannical pan-Arabist assholes that are complaining about Israeli “expansionism” now. Which, according to liberal dunderheads, somehow makes it all Israel’s fault. Bryan says it well:
That last part is just a cynical play to the Israeli left which, like the American left, is mostly full of narcisstic dolts who don’t believe the world is dangerous as long their own country keeps its sword in the sheath. And it’s likely to work to some extent. You can’t overestimate the weakness and gullibility of the left. You just can’t.
Ain’t it the truth. Too bad there’s no way to cut the dimwit Left loose and let it steer the runaway train of their own droolcase strategy to its inevitable derailment, but I don’t see how we can manage it without going along for the ride ourselves. Bryan follows up with some good — if bleak — analysis, but meanwhile these self-contradictory, nonsensical cretins are starting to make my head hurt.
- Entries
For instance:
Resolution 1: Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria, and Iran have exactly 24 hours to offer their unconditional surrender, or we will level Damascus, Tehran, and Mecca with some of that Fine American Sunshine.
Resolution 2: Any nation, even current allies, that offer any criticism whatever of Resolution 1 shall get their own dose of Fine American Sunshine first.
Resolution 3: Democracy! Whiskey! Sexy!
Josh Marshall sums up my own feelings nicely:
It'll happen...but only after both sides cast out the mullahs and the neocons.
"And then everyone will have a chicken in their pot every Sunday! And all the pot they can smoke! And, and, and, a flying Unicorn to ride down to the Community Center where we'll all join hands and sing Kumbayah!"
Dream on.
This is going to be good.
As opposed to the leftists way of dealing with the middle east...kinda like a game of Magic-- Stack the deck completely against the US and Israel with rules of engagement so convoluted that it defies logic, then tap an endless supply mana (tax dollars) to bribe and pamper the islamo-fascists.
I'd imagine that in his DnD games, he probably doesn't actually fight dragons or orcs...he sits down with them and dialogues until an agreement can be met. Any j00ish elves in the group are to be killed...then everyone rolls their save vs. common sense...scratch that, no one rolls...that would entail competition...everyone AUTOMATICALLY makes their save!
I’d imagine that in his DnD games, he probably doesn’t actually fight dragons or orcs…he sits down with them and dialogues until an agreement can be met. Any j00ish elves in the group are to be killed…then everyone rolls their save vs. common sense…scratch that, no one rolls…that would entail competition…everyone AUTOMATICALLY makes their save!"
...doesn't this place have a kiddie section where the gamers can play, and quit annoying the adults?
"Huck Finn, do you mean to tell me you don't know what a crusade is?"
"No," says I, "I don't.
"A crusade is a war to recover the Holy Land from the paynim."
"Which Holy Land?"
"Why, the Holy Land -- there ain't but one."
"What do we want of it?"
"Why, can't you understand? It's in the hands of the paynim, and it's our duty to take it away from them."
"How did we come to let them git hold of it?"
"We didn't come to let them git hold of it. They always had it."
"Why, Tom, then it must belong to them, don't it?"
"Why of course it does. Who said it didn't?"
I studied over it, but couldn't seem to git at the right of it, no way. I says:
"It's too many for me, Tom Sawyer. If I had a farm and it was mine, and another person wanted it, would it be right for him to --"
"Oh, shucks! you don't know enough to come in when it rains, Huck Finn. It ain't a farm, it's entirely different. You see, it's like this. They own the land, just the mere land, and that's all they DO own; but it was our folks, our Jews and Christians, that made it holy, and so they haven't any business to be there defiling it. It's a shame, and we ought not to stand it a minute. We ought to march against them and take it away from them."
"Why, it does seem to me it's the most mixed-up thing I ever see! Now, if I had a farm and another person --"
"Don't I tell you it hasn't got anything to do with farming? Farming is business, just common low-down business: that's all it is, it's all you can say for it; but this is higher, this is religious, and totally different."
"Religious to go and take the land away from people that owns it?"
"Certainly; it's always been considered so."
Funny, you seem to have left out the part about the Holocaust and the Jews being driven out of every Arab country. I mean, the nerve of those people to want to, you know, live. Who the hell do they think they are? Why don't they make all our lives easier by just dropping dead already?
I swear Zorro, some days I can't decide if you're a raving anti-Semite, soul-crushingly stupid, or both.
Z, I actually enjoy the back-and-forth between you and some of the regulars here, but the kind of ludicrous antisemitic smears you've been tossing off lately are simply unacceptable. Mossad responsible for, as you asserted yesterday, repeated terrorist attacks against the US? Even after Osama and al Q cheerfully and willingly admitted to perpetrating them all, and Muslims across the ME danced in the streets in grateful acknowledgment? What's next, a claim that Osama is in reality a *choke* dirty, greedy Jew posing as a noble, downtrodden jihadist hero?
I'm simply not going to tolerate any more of that. You're entitled to your opinion, foolish and misinformed though it is; what you're not entitled to is to turn my site into some kind of platform for bigoted hate speech. Lighten up on the antisemitism, or go find someplace else to hang out.
Being objectively pro-jihadi is one thing (and, whether you're in denial over it or not, your own recent statements make it disgustingly clear that that's precisely what you are); regrettably, plenty of your Lefty brethren are partners with you in that particular self-destructive folly. But I'm not going to allow this site to be used to disseminate a bunch of thinly-masked, unreconstructed Aryan Nation bilge. You can consider this your invitation to take that Jew-hate stuff someplace else. I am not in the least interested in wasting the bandwidth required to post it, nor the disk space required to host it.
-- Colin Powell
Mike, you have swallowed the anti-American neoconservative ploy hook-line-and-sinker.
I am most certainly NOT anti-semitic. I am opposed to the actions of the government of Israel. Strongly opposed. I support the idea of the state of Israel as a democratic and secular nation with it's borders being the Green Line.
Just like I believe has happened in this country, the ultra-rightwing has hijacked the political process and wishes to take as much of the middleeast by force as they can get away with. I believe they will stop at nothing and no action is too outrageous, if it succeeds in achieving the ultimate goal.
The short answer to you is: I am most certainly NOT anti-semitic.
There's nowhere for displaced people to go. The only land on Earth left uninhabited, or sparcely inhabited is hostile to human life...or at the very least extremely difficult to live in.
If the people in the ME cannot find a way to live peacefully, the only alternative is the total destruction of either Israel, or all of it's Arab neighbors. If it comes to that, sheer numbers doom Israel...as King Shef noted, "paper covers rock".
The only way out is for the people of Israel to throw their hard-core revisionist/expansionist leaders out...as we should do here as well.
Of course not...cuz, you see...leftists are allowed to say vile and degrading things about women, asians, blacks, and especially da j00s who don't toe the kostard party line. You're not considered racists because being a leftard means never having to actually follow the same standards you demand of everyone else...
Well...there you go folks...if it comes down to it, we know what side Zorro is on...
Don't let this situation with Jizzballah fool you, Zorro...if Israel decided to open up on the Middle East, your muslim masters would be scattering like cockroaches...hiding behind the nearest woman or child they could find.
See ya...
...for a while. But, if you please, don't delete my user-account. I'll pop back in to discuss events when something interesting happens.
Remember two quotes:
"Oil is too valuable to be left to the Arabs."
-- Henry Kissinger
"Only the impossible always happens."
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
I spoke too soon...seems a note I fired off to AS a couple days ago got him thinking:
...nice to get some air time...even if I'm not directly quoted.
OK- now, I'm outta here for a while!
The Arab way of fighting is tribal: long-term blood feuds that end only if one side is wiped out. That means anything short of utter material destruction and near-extermination is not seen as defeat, but only as demonstration that Allah saved their asses so that they can rearm and try again.
Yeah, this is a disturbing conclusion, but one that must be incorporated in any future discussion of strategy, I think.
You are the idiotic cocksucker that brought up D&D without knowing what the fuck you were talking about, now live with it, you stupid fuckstain.
I ain't holding my breath.