If you don't care for violence, skip this post.
I think what Israel is doing should be applauded, and I think we should be helping them. There are three reasons I feel this way; the first often requires some explanation, the second is pretty straight forward and the third may be a little blasphemous.
I grew up in a large family (very large) and I am the oldest, so I got front row seats for Child Rearing 101. Siblings compete. "I got more candy than you", "I can run faster than you", "Mom likes me better than you", etc. They work hard to prove to the other guy that they are higher on the "food chain". It's called a pecking order and it's absolutely necessary to running a large organization. You can't have five CEO's and expect them to co-operate, as the oldest I couldn't maintain the rules while babysitting unless I was allowed to punish inappropriate behavior and Mom backed me up once she got home. Watch the children of parents that step in and stop every petty squabble their children have; the children never establish who's "on top" and so they fight all the way into adulthood. Someone will always be bigger and stronger than you (that's a hard lesson for oldest children), so you shouldn't push your luck unless you really believe you can win. Hezbollah thinks they shouldn't have to play nice with Israel, Israel fights back, but before Hezbollah learns that Israel could really hurt them, the rest of the world cries "stop". Israel relents and Hezbollah sticks its figurative tongue out to say, "You couldn't really beat me." It's time to let Israel put a real hurt on Hezbollah.
Second, when a terrorist group (Al-Qaeda) attacked the U.S of A., we went right out and invaded the country they operated from (Afghanistan) even though their government claimed not to be in charge of the militants. Hezbollah has attacked Israel for years, it's about time they invaded Lebanon and finished off the militants. What's good for the goose, is good for the gander, right?
Third; Violence will solve all of our problems, eventually. God said so. We struggle daily against the forces of darkness, until when? Oh yeah, until Armageddon, then we wage full on war. After we win, all our problems will have been solved... by violently eliminating the opposition.
We whine and cry about having armed soldiers in a country where suicide bombs go off weekly; Israelis live in a country where suicide bombs go off weekly - It's time we helped them to establish and maintain the same peace we demand on our own soil.
I grew up in a large family (very large) and I am the oldest, so I got front row seats for Child Rearing 101. Siblings compete. "I got more candy than you", "I can run faster than you", "Mom likes me better than you", etc. They work hard to prove to the other guy that they are higher on the "food chain". It's called a pecking order and it's absolutely necessary to running a large organization. You can't have five CEO's and expect them to co-operate, as the oldest I couldn't maintain the rules while babysitting unless I was allowed to punish inappropriate behavior and Mom backed me up once she got home. Watch the children of parents that step in and stop every petty squabble their children have; the children never establish who's "on top" and so they fight all the way into adulthood. Someone will always be bigger and stronger than you (that's a hard lesson for oldest children), so you shouldn't push your luck unless you really believe you can win. Hezbollah thinks they shouldn't have to play nice with Israel, Israel fights back, but before Hezbollah learns that Israel could really hurt them, the rest of the world cries "stop". Israel relents and Hezbollah sticks its figurative tongue out to say, "You couldn't really beat me." It's time to let Israel put a real hurt on Hezbollah.
Second, when a terrorist group (Al-Qaeda) attacked the U.S of A., we went right out and invaded the country they operated from (Afghanistan) even though their government claimed not to be in charge of the militants. Hezbollah has attacked Israel for years, it's about time they invaded Lebanon and finished off the militants. What's good for the goose, is good for the gander, right?
Third; Violence will solve all of our problems, eventually. God said so. We struggle daily against the forces of darkness, until when? Oh yeah, until Armageddon, then we wage full on war. After we win, all our problems will have been solved... by violently eliminating the opposition.
We whine and cry about having armed soldiers in a country where suicide bombs go off weekly; Israelis live in a country where suicide bombs go off weekly - It's time we helped them to establish and maintain the same peace we demand on our own soil.
posted by Wolfman at 11:27 PM
2 Comments:
Too bad that it's a too politically charged situation for us to actually do that. Everyone in the Arab world already thinks that we back Israel far too much already. I wouldn't be surprised at all to find that we are somehow 'puppeting' this one, or at very least financially supporting their actions behind everyone's back.
it dosent realy matter. wars are fought ppl die life goes on.
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