What the World Needs Now

[ibrodsky]

"What the world needs now
is war, sweet war
it's the only thing
that there's just too little of
What the world needs now
is war, sweet war,
no not just for some
but for all of militant Islam.
Lord, we don't need
another peace conference,
there are peace conferences
and treaties enough to puke
There are diplomats
and bureaucrats enough to talk,
enough to last
'til the end of time.
What the world needs now
is war, sweet war
it's the only thing
that there's just too little of
What the world needs now
is war, sweet war,
no, not just for some
but for all of militant Islam.
Lord, we don't need
another cease fire
there are terrorists
and dictators enough to kill
There are tactical nukes
and daisy cutters enough to use
oh listen, lord,
if you want to know.
What the world needs now
is war, sweet war
it's the only thing
that there's just too little of
What the world needs now
is war, sweet war,
no, not just for some
but for all of militant Islam.
No, not just for some,
oh, but just for militant Islam."

[L@mplighterM]

Been celebrating Purim early or late have we? LOL

India sure doesn’t screw around when it comes to Islamic Fundamentalism. I wonder if we’ll all glow in the dark sometime soon perhaps its time to clean up the fall out shelters and stock up on iodine pills.

Seriously if Israel started shelling WB or GS Pell Mel a UN Force would most likely show up on its doorstep within weeks and arrest the principals.

The Palestinians are fully aware that they have the backing of the Muslim backed UN and they are using that fact to their full advantage.

If indeed India and Pakistan engage in an all out conflict Israel might as well follow suit.

[ibrodsky]

I wish the world did not need war, but at the moment it does.

Some things are worth fighting for. Today, both Israelis and Americans live in fear of terrorist attacks. This is a new form of enslavement. Freedom is worth defending.

The U.S. position seems to have morphed into acceptance that terrorism is inevitable and can't be stopped.

I beg to differ. Perhaps not every terrorist attack can be stopped, but terrorism as a trend can and must be stopped.

Unfortunately, it requires a real war -- not just remote control bombing of remote Afghanistan.

The U.S. has in a sense surrendered by insisting that Israel must negotiate with Arafat and that, per the latest State Dept report, Israel is partly to blame for Palestinian terrorism.

What the US should be doing is hitting Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and their state sponsors right now. The fear that things will "boil over" is foolish. Really, what we are doing is telling the terrorists that a certain amount of terror, against certain targets, is acceptable. Thus, they are able to buy the time they need to plot their next, even bigger, attack against the U.S.

While a real war against terrorism would result in more civilian casualties and some increase in enimity towards the US, it would have the far more beneficial result of frightening the tinpot dictators into arresting or killing terrorists instead of paying them, commending them, and supporting them.

[L@mplighterM]

You have expressed my sentiment much better than I would have been able to present it.

For whatever reason Bush and his administration is not willing and able to tackle Islamic Fanatics and Fundamentalists in a sustained manner. As a matter of fact it’s crystal clear to me that all Islamic terrorists organizations are one of the same. Part of a whole would be a good way to put it.

The stance that the US has taken favoring the Palestinians is shameful in my opinions. There’s a comic strip in India that portrays Bush as a dimwit and in my opinion they aren’t far from the truth. In my eyes Bush has a long way to go before he redeems himself in my eyes.

Initially (post 9/11) when he was making his fiery speeches telling the world how he was going to form a coalition to fight terrorism I believed he was a man that would die attempting to rid the world of terrorism. Now with his double standard I have lost all respect for the man.

[ibrodsky]

One more very big reason why the world needs war:

Notice that more and more brutal dictators are on the threshold of acquiring nuclear weapons.

Do we want to live in a world where one or two rogue states can blackmail the entire world? Do we want to live in a world in which madmen actually use nuclear weapons just to see how many victims they can kill?

If only there were a handful of powerful democracies with the will to ensure that despots don't develop nuclear weapons. Instead of trying to convince Russia not to aid Iran in developing nukes, the U.S. should be telling Iran that if it does not halt its nuke program immediately it will be halted by force.

It may be evitable that countries like Iran develop nukes. But it is not inevitable that they live under the illusion that that is their right and no one will do anything about it. Right now, the people who should be quaking in their boots over Iran's nuclear program should be the Iranian people. They should be told in no uncertain terms that if Iran even threatens another country with nukes that their country is in mortal danger. This will provide them with the motivation to resist their fascist (a.k.a. militant Islam) gov't.

[Mediocrates]

http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson053102.asp

By Victor Davis Hanson -

excerpted from the article

"The world is changing as we speak. Recent history teaches us that those societies that elect their own representatives are less likely to murder their own people, threaten nuclear exchanges — or butcher Americans. In contrast, supporting unfree nations brings us only short-term aid — a closed border here or a base there — but marginal advantages not worth the commensurate cost of alienating millions who otherwise look to us for material and increasingly psychosocial succor.

If there was democracy in Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, and Libya, we would be now squabbling with them at inane and irritating U.N. conferences over trade agreements, global warming, "racism" — and thus less likely sending them bribe money or troops. And the problem is not just with our enemies like Saddam Hussein or the mullahs in Iran, but our purported friends as well — who need extremists in their neighborhood to convince us that unelected sheiks, censored media, and secret police are "moderate" because they do not shoot advisers in meetings, stockpile anthrax, or blow up Americans. "


Read the rest - it is classic Victor Davis Hanson.

[cerulean]

Another good article by Victor David Hanson:

a short excerpt:
...

We are in a similar dilemma — in our hesitation about Iraq, our pressure on Israel, and our worries about mission creep in pursuing the killers. Can't the Jews and Arabs just get along? If Israel would just give back all of the West Bank, wouldn't there be peace? Didn't we just fight in the Gulf a mere decade ago? How do we know that Saddam Hussein really has such dreadful weapons? Shouldn't our allies get involved too? Do these undemocratic Muslim countries really dislike us all that much? Who can trust polls anyway? Why are these saber-rattlers trying to get us into a war?

And so we Americans, like those 70 years ago who so wanted a perpetual peace, pray for a return of sanity in the Middle East. We chose to ignore horrific stories of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia — the embryo of 9/11. We are more amused than shocked that madrassas have taught a generation to hate us. When mullahs in Iran speak of destroying Israel we wince, but also shrug. We want to see no real connection between madmen blowing themselves up to kill us in New York and the like-minded doing the same in Tel-Aviv. We put our trust in peace with a killer like Mr. Arafat, who packs a gun and whips up volatile crowds in Arabic. All the while, no American statesman has the guts to tell the Arab leadership that statism, tribalism, fundamentalism, gender apartheid, and autocracy — not America, not Israel — make their people poor, angry, and dangerous.

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Check out the archive link also:
http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp