Suicide of the West?

Hat tip to Cox and Forkum for the cartoon. You can read their related commentary and links HERE. An excerpt:

...according such rights to terrorists who murder women and children gives them moral legitimacy that will make winning this war that much harder. It elevates terrorists nearly to the level of GIs who obey formal rules of engagement and who can be, and as we've seen often are, punished severely for harming innocents.

I've posted quite abit about Suicide Bombers and the cult of death that makes it possible. Most sane people think it's crazy. But how sane is it to help an enemy who is trying to destroy you?

That is exactly what we are doing when we treat terrorists by the standards of the Geneva Convention, even though they do not meet it's qualifications.

Do they apply the standards of the Geneva Convention to us? We already know the answer:



If we apply the Geneva convention to these animals, it will cease to have any meaning at all; it just becomes another weapon for our enemies to use against us. One that WE gave to them.

Is it any wonder they are emboldened to kill us? They would never do anything so stupid, and such actions encourage them to believe we are weak, vulnerable and ripe for destruction. It's time we wake up and deal with reality - or be destroyed.




Related links:

Hezbollah is Here

...You think Hezbollah is only Israel's headache? Wake up. Iranian Hezbollah's spokesman Mojtaba Bigdeli's threat on Tuesday to dispatch 2,000 operatives "to every corner of the world to jeopardize Israel and America's interests" is more than just idle Islamic heavy breathing.

The Jew-hating terrorists of Hezbollah who call themselves the "party of God" are already here. In America. Plotting attacks. Raising money. Slipping through the cracks...

Hezbollah Among Us

...This is one example where everyone at this rally carrying signs calling for Israel's destruction and are sympathetic to Hezbollah should be considered supporters of the enemy, arrested and interrogated. And then, of course, either jailed or deported. And if they have somehow managed to become citizens of the United States, they should be stripped of that honor and then deported back to the pit from whence they came.

The Only Exit Strategy

... In a stunning development, the 22-member Arab League criticized Hezbollah for provoking the current crisis. It is unprecedented for the Arab League to criticize any Arab party while it is actively engaged in hostilities with Israel. But the Arab states know that Hezbollah, a Shiite militia in the service of Persian Iran, is a threat not just to Lebanon but to them as well. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan have openly criticized Hezbollah for starting a war on what is essentially Iran's timetable (to distract attention from Iran's pending referral to the Security Council for sanctions over its nuclear program). They are far more worried about Iran and its proxies than about Israel. They are therefore eager to see Hezbollah disarmed and defanged.

Fine. Everyone agrees it must be done. But who to do it? No one. The Lebanese are too weak. The Europeans don't invade anyone. After its bitter experience of 20 years ago, the U.S. has a Lebanon allergy. And Israel could not act out of the blue because it would immediately have been branded the aggressor and forced to retreat.

Hence the golden, unprecedented opportunity...

Patience is Wearing Thin

...Yet for all their threats, what the Islamists -- from Hezbollah in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley to the Iranian government in Tehran to the jihadists in Iraq's Sunni Triangle -- don't understand is that they are slowly pushing tired Westerners into a corner. If diplomacy, or aid, or support for democracy, or multiculturalism, or withdrawal from contested lands, does not satisfy radical Islamists, what would?

Perhaps nothing.

What then would be the new Western approach to terrorism? Hard and quick retaliation -- but without our past concern for nation-building, or offering a democratic alternative to theocracy and autocracy, or even worrying about whether other Muslims are unfairly lumped in with Islamists who operate freely in their midst.

Any new policy of retaliation -- in light both of Sept. 11 and the messy efforts to birth democracies in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon and the West Bank -- would be something of an exasperated return to the old cruise-missile payback. Yet in the new world of Iranian nukes and Hezbollah missiles, the West would hit back with something far greater than a cruise missile...

Hat tip to Chatterbox Chronicles for the cartoon. Be sure and check out Dee's post: The War on Terror--Expanding!!!


A 'cycle' on nonsense

... Of all the Western democracies, only two have no choice but to depend on their own military forces for their survival -- the United States and Israel. The rest have for more than half a century had the luxury of depending on American military forces in general and the American nuclear deterrent in particular.

People who have long been sheltered from mortal dangers can indulge themselves in the belief that there are no mortal dangers. Nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran or North Korea -- and, through them, in the hands of hate-filled terrorists -- may be all that will finally wake up such people. But that may be tragically too late.

Those who keep calling for an end to the "cycle of violence" are what make such violence more likely. "World opinion" in general and the United Nations in particular can always be counted on to counsel "restraint" in response to attacks and "negotiations" in response to lethal threats.

What that means is that those who start trouble will have a lower price to pay than if those they attacked were free to go all out in their counter-attack. Lowering the price to be paid by aggressors virtually guarantees more aggression.

(bold emphasis mine) Many of the things the west sees as virtues - restraint, humanitarian aid, multiculturalism - are seen as weaknesses by our enemies. The methods and the madness of the death cult that has been allowed to flourish in the Palestinian territories (while we have supported it with financial aid, and the "restraint" of ourselves and Israel) has now spread throughout the Islamic world, like a cancer. The patient will not recover from this madness if we keep supporting the illness.

As a final reference, I'm pleased to link to this well researched article at the Chatterbox Chronicles:

Who is Hezbollah?

Miss Chatterbox has done her homework, provided links to her sources and the result is a concise article that should answer most peoples questions on the subject.