Proportionality?
"Proportionality means perpetuity". Not my statement but one I heard from a caller to Rush's show. It's excellent. Those who call for "proportionality" at the same time as they call for "an end to the cycle of violence" are intellectually just stupid. Of course that's a stupidity that follows on moral confusion, it's a refusal to recognize "Good" versus "Evil", and it's a refusal to accept that our enemy is evil, a refusal to accept that the conflict will end only when the enemy is destroyed. Or perhaps it's a refusal to accept that we even have an implacable enemy? It doesn't seem to me it would be hard to define people who want to kill you as evil. Maybe you don't want to accept that they want to kill you? That they would want to kill you would be unpleasant. Or maybe you think they can't kill you, they're far away, they're only killing other people, and if you can pretend things should just be "proportional" then you can pretend there's not a war?
But just now this sort of debate in Europe or the US isn't what's important, what's important is the apparent loss of will within Israel. That's the nation now under attack, that's the nation within the sea of hatred, that's the nation that can not doubt it's justification, that's the nation that must not spare its blood. And there are no boots on the ground.
Tough talk from a man sitting in Minnesota. But I want Israel to survive, I want Europe to survive, I want the US to survive, I want Minnesota to survive. This is the 9/11 War, that's when we knew it was war, and Israel right now is the spear point in the most present battle.
This battle can not be won without the absolute conviction of justification, and the courage respondent to that conviction. If Israel has lost that conviction, even while under assault, what hope is there for the rest of us? This is the human spirit, is that spirit under assault in collapse? The spirit of the West in collapse? It matters if Israel fights. Their fight is our substantiation that we can yet struggle...
This is over-writing. It suffers fvapors. But it's just that I really don't want Israel to "let me down". If Israel doesn't fight then this is a very unhappy day indeed. A nation under attack, within the context of a global war, the justification clearly absolute (if there ever is to be justification), and no boots on the ground?
Israel is being given time. The international community of the West sees their justification, they've left the window open, Hizbollah is blamed, and where's Israel? They're dropping bombs. Absolutely anybody who has an airforce against an enemy who has none can drop bombs. As moral force it means nothing.
And of itself, militarily, it means nothing. To destroy ordinance that can be replaced without destroying the force that plies that ordinance is nothing. It's defeat. Without ground troops this is defeat.
Military judgment can vary. To prep the battlefield makes sense. Perhaps the Israelis feel they have time...? But I know a land force isn't destroyed without land troops, and if Hizbollah isn't destroyed they've won. And this would be an Israeli failure of will, a failure of conviction. It would mean Israel is dead.
These are two blog posts that consider some of the military difficulties:
Chester & The Counter Terrorism Blog
But just now this sort of debate in Europe or the US isn't what's important, what's important is the apparent loss of will within Israel. That's the nation now under attack, that's the nation within the sea of hatred, that's the nation that can not doubt it's justification, that's the nation that must not spare its blood. And there are no boots on the ground.
Tough talk from a man sitting in Minnesota. But I want Israel to survive, I want Europe to survive, I want the US to survive, I want Minnesota to survive. This is the 9/11 War, that's when we knew it was war, and Israel right now is the spear point in the most present battle.
This battle can not be won without the absolute conviction of justification, and the courage respondent to that conviction. If Israel has lost that conviction, even while under assault, what hope is there for the rest of us? This is the human spirit, is that spirit under assault in collapse? The spirit of the West in collapse? It matters if Israel fights. Their fight is our substantiation that we can yet struggle...
This is over-writing. It suffers fvapors. But it's just that I really don't want Israel to "let me down". If Israel doesn't fight then this is a very unhappy day indeed. A nation under attack, within the context of a global war, the justification clearly absolute (if there ever is to be justification), and no boots on the ground?
Israel is being given time. The international community of the West sees their justification, they've left the window open, Hizbollah is blamed, and where's Israel? They're dropping bombs. Absolutely anybody who has an airforce against an enemy who has none can drop bombs. As moral force it means nothing.
And of itself, militarily, it means nothing. To destroy ordinance that can be replaced without destroying the force that plies that ordinance is nothing. It's defeat. Without ground troops this is defeat.
Military judgment can vary. To prep the battlefield makes sense. Perhaps the Israelis feel they have time...? But I know a land force isn't destroyed without land troops, and if Hizbollah isn't destroyed they've won. And this would be an Israeli failure of will, a failure of conviction. It would mean Israel is dead.
These are two blog posts that consider some of the military difficulties:
Chester & The Counter Terrorism Blog
posted by mouse at 4:18 PM
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