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August 03, 2006

GUESS WHAT? ISRAEL MAY BE WINNING

        Horsefeathers has shared the worry of many friends of Israel concerning the progress of the war. We regretted the early hesitancy and waffling by Israel's political leaders. Yet we also noticed an early disturbing defeatist tendency on the part of real friends of Israel. After less than a week, the various armchair generals and ex-Colonels were all over the media proclaiming that Israel had lost, that their reliance on air power was a mistake, that they should have immediately gone into Lebanon and/or Syria with overwhelming ground force. Ralph Peters and others assured us that, had Israel followed their approach, the war could have been wrapped up in a few days. This troubled us for a number of reasons, one being that a quick war doesn't provide time to inflict sufficient pain to convince the enemy he has lost. The pounding of Japan and Germany inflicted immense pain over a long period of time. We've had no problems from either country in 60+ years. Hezbollah needs to feel a world of hurt and it takes time to construct such a world and confine them within it. Given the paucity of information about what was actually happening, plus the overwhelming anti-Israel bias of the MSM, we wondered how the pundits could be so certain. What happened to the fog of war, the uncertainty of battle, the fallibility of journalists? One thing seemed clear, this is not the Six Day war, fought mainly out in the desert against armies moving as massed units. After all, Israel and the UN looked away for 6 years while the Hezbos turned Southern Lebanon into Okinawa.
        Now that the hand wringing has subsided, we are beginning to see hints that Israeli military strategy may be working. It seems to be inflicting more pain than the Hezbos anticipated. Iran coupled its latest bloodcurdling genocidal threats with a pathetic plea for a cease fire: "Ahmadinejad says that while main solution for conflict in region is 'elimination of Zionist regime,' at this stage immediate ceasefire was needed to end fighting between Israel, Lebanon.."
        Why would the fire breathing Hitlerian ask for a cease fire if things were going as well as the media and the brain dead Muslim street thinks? Is it not reasonable to suspect that the IDF is systematically applying air power to 1)destroy command and control structures, thereby cutting off the jihadis from their leadership while, 2)fixing the Hezbos in their tunnels, cutting off resupply preparatory to turning those tunnels into tombs. To do so requires the use of all tools at the IDF's disposal, including regular infantry, special forces and smart bomb equivalents of WWII flame throwers. Early talk of clearing only a small area of Southern Lebanon looks like disinformation, as large numbers of infantry are operating far north of the border, effectively cutting off and encircling Hezbos in the South.
        Meanwhile, the daring commando raid on Baalbeck sent a message to Nasrallah and the rest of the Hezbo leadership: you are dead men walking and we'll track you to the ends of the earth, as we did the Olympic terrorists. Get ready to live a life of endless pain, culminating in death inflicted by Jews. All the brave talk about martyrdom omits one important element: death at the hands of the IDF is very different from choosing to blow oneself up while killing hundreds of innocents. Cowards who hide behind the skirts of innocent civilians are frightened by strength and best dealt with by taking away the control they possess over the way in which they die.
        Horsefeathers recalls the words of a man who understood human nature, the nature of war, and the importance and uses of time, Karl Von Clausewitz: "If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on him to make. The hardships of the situation must not be merely transient -at least not in appearance. Otherwise, the enemy would not give in, but would wait for things to improve." Putting the enemy in such an unpleasant situation requires time and the repetition of that unpleasantness "must not be transient".
        In past wars launched by Arabs against Israel, the Arab losers were always bailed out of their predicament in order to save them from utter humiliation.The wars were not long enough to inflict more than transient pain. There was never a truly decisive ending, the necessary prerequisite for peace. Another truth stated by Von Clausewitz: "There is just one decisive battle: the last." Let us hope the IDF presses on to that last decisive battle.
        Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.





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Amen, PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION....

can you believe a Dem like John Dingle (D-Michigan) who DOES NOT TAKE SIDES????

The IDF did not pick this fight but they need to emasculate the Hezbo's and cull this murder cult to the root. Heard a rumor today BIN LADEN's SON is in the thick of the ACTION IN LEBANON.

I AGREE THE DARING COMMANDO RAID ON Baalbeck SCARED, if I may say the bejesus out of the Hezbo leadership......I hope they raid and capture a few more Hezbos.....two can play the hostage game....

I feel exactly the way my father did in 1940, as an American citizen, HE WAS NOT NEUTRAL IN NORTH AFRICA ...he hoped the Fascists would be whipped they were and he dreaded the arrived of the fierce Afrika Korps. He didn't wait for Dec 7 1941 to 'take sides' . He knew who the badjins were.

The HEZBOS and Al QAIDA are the Badjins nae doot aboot it!!!

HEZBOS DELENDA EST
AL QAIDA DELENDA EST

One historic note.....in 1943 the captured Afrika Corps was desembarked in New Orleans en route to POW camps in Texas, Arizona and California (one in Bakersfield. My father, at that time a Sergeant in the Military Police greeted them in GERMAN with a fully loaded Thompson with the SAFETY OFF. He said they looked like monsters they were big, lean and mean. But too his surpise most were very happy the war was over for them and that they were in America.....

PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION...
we are going to need plenty of both....

Posted by: Richard "Ricardo" Munro [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 4, 2006 02:38 AM

Amen. And mention of Ahmedinajad, who is not currently a direct belligerant (though many of his "advisers" to his Hezbollah sockpuppets have died), brings out a related point: a long war is necessary not only to force the Arabs to feel the pain they called on themselves, but also to silence, and possibly even neutralize, the horrible horde of third-party sympathizers, undeclared allies and useful idiots who are currently being mobilized by the public relations arms of Iran/Hezbollah and Hamas/Islamic Brotherhood. Case in point: if Israel had ceased fire after the Qana accident, the Hezbollah version of events, vigorously promoted by all the old media in America and most European countries (good news: the Italian press and TV are not enamoured of the Islamist side), would have become Vulgate. As the war goes on, however, the repetition of Hezbollah propaganda loses force. I don't remember which poet said that a lie can only be young but once. There is something about cliched expression, stereotyped and repetitious charges, ever-repeated complaints, that shows their emptiness and makes space for answers. And in the modern world, answers tend to come fast. A shoal of bloggers has ripped the official account of the Qana incident to pieces, and the new version has become sufficiently widely known for the Washington Pissed to try the last desperate resort of the arguer with no points - lofty dismissal. In other words, Hezbollah's useful idiots across the world are in trouble. In a truly free exchange of opinions, not limited by access to oligarchic media and subterranean agreements, they are not only not able to silence their opponents, but are less in tune with the natural and instinctive attitude of Western people. Western people naturally and instinctively feel that there is something wrong with Muslim countries; and they have to be kept under the constant pressure of emotional blackmail, with loaded concepts such as racism, colonialism, cultural imperialism and so on everlastingly pointed at them like wagging fingers, not to fall right back into a posture of more-or-less tolerant contempt, and a feeling that we have nothing to learn from Islam. As indeed we have not. Also, free men are naturally pugnacious. The music of their culture is Beethoven: the voice itself of self-assertion against all obstacles and all enemies. Pacifism, I mean extreme pacifism, is unnatural to a free person; and again, it can only be supported by the complete demonization of all opponents, which is of all things the least peaceful. All these mechanisms of marginalization and demonization of opposing views, however, lose power the longer they are used, and the longer the West has to face the reality of opposition and hatred. The longer the war lasts, therefore, the worse the prospects for appeasers and traitors. "Abide a bit, and the wind turns; there is no blessing in this work." (From Kipling's Kim.)

Posted by: Paolo [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 4, 2006 04:34 AM

Israel is winning. Go by this: the louder the calls for a ceasfire means that the Jews are winning. I too was disgusted by these armchair Colonels who are not on the ground, proferring their adivce to Israel, declaring that the Israelis are failing. Israel needed to soften the enemy up first by a massive aerial bombardment and then send in the ground forces. Israel needs to demonstrably punish its enemies since the power of delusional reasoning is so prevalent in the Islamic world.

Posted by: Ripper [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 4, 2006 08:47 AM

What a coincidence! My father was a M.P. in World War II and guarded German POW's captrued from North Africa and the Mediterannean theaters in POW camps in Mississippi and Alabama. He was a blond headed guy and the Germans thought he was one of them and they were taken aback when he told them in German "Ich bin ein Jude."!

Posted by: Ripper [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 4, 2006 08:50 AM

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