Comments on: Caroline Glick on Israel and the flotilla attack

By: Bob From Virginia

Bob From Virginia — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:49:38 +0000

Everyone has got to see this video, and email it to whoever you can.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/03/video-we-con-the-world/

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:04:25 +0000

Somebody, perhaps at Belmont Club, speculated that Iran may dare us to do something so horrible we would not do it and thus lose whatever was at issue.
One possibility would be as in the Iran-Iraq war.
Picture a battlefield with the US forces dug in on a line. Out front are minefields of scatterable mines.
The Iranians send 100,000 young boys with plastic keys (symbolizing the key to heaven) into the minefields to clear them by stepping on them.
Following that are a hundred thousand adult soldiers, trained only to move forward and fire an AK 47.
What would be the American political impact of our troops killing those helpless chumps over the space of, say, half a day in a space of, say, half a mile wide by five miles long? With our weaponry, it would be easy.
Point is, Iran has already done that. The guys in charge can certainly do it again, given the power within the country (which is not guaranteed at this date but you’d not have thought they had it back then, either).
More to the point, what would be the backlash against Israel if they did it?

By: Bob from Virginia

Bob from Virginia — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:01:12 +0000

Can anyone speculate what the world will look like in 2012 if this is what happens after 16 months of Obama’s incompetent weakness?

By: Bob from Virginia

Bob from Virginia — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:45:49 +0000

Try proffreeding when you’re Add.

By: Sergey

Sergey — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:43:32 +0000

Armchair, almost nobody is good at proofreading. It took me 2 years of very hard work, 8 hours every weekday in this trade before I became more or less professional in it.

By: armchair pessimist

armchair pessimist — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:35:56 +0000

Bob,

Good one! I can’t even proofread my proof reading

By: Bob from Virginia

Bob from Virginia — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:15:21 +0000

armchair pessimist what’s proofreading?

By: Sergey

Sergey — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:52:44 +0000

What really fuels irrational hatred of modernity in Arab countries is a growing feeling of ultimate failure. Their culture is dying, incapable both to cope with modernity and to modernize. So all these paranoid fantasies and inability to tell reality from fairy tales. To see right before their noses successfull modern Jewish country is something they can not tolerate anymore, a sore wound to their “honor”.

By: armchair pessimist

armchair pessimist — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:59:25 +0000

Damn my proof reading! Make that:

I’ll play the American optimist and turn the threat into an opportunity.

By: armchair pessimist

armchair pessimist — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:58:29 +0000

“Arabs have oil, but we have matches”. A wise man with a powerful message.

I’ll play the American optimist and turn the treat into an opportunity. If Israel could establish herself as the protector of the world’s oil deliveries out of the middle east against all threats and mad men, then she would enjoy the support, however cynical, of the governments of 3 or 4 billion people. Jews have a good sense of humor, and would likely chuckle at becoming the new Knights of Malta!