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GUNNY’S COLUMN
07/17/06

THE FOOLHARDY FALLACY OF REQUISITE PROPORTIONAL RESPONSE
The elite liberal media, being yapping lap dogs for the American political left, have been screaming about the evil Jews using disproportionate force as Israel finally responds to the carnage Muslim terrorists have been heaping upon it of late. The proverbial last straw was the Iranian- and Syrian-controlled terrorist group Hezbollah kidnapping two Israeli soldiers in northern Israel. Hezbollah, in case you have forgotten, carried out the 1983 attacks on the United States Embassy and Marine compound in Beirut, the 1984 attack on the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, and the 1996 destruction of the Khobar Towers U.S. military barracks in Saudi Arabia (total Americans dead in these attacks: 325).

The usual sniveling lackeys of the anti-Israel Democratic Party and their liberal media henchmen can’t seem to grasp the entry-level tactical maxim of disproportionate response, which throughout recorded history has demonstrated innumerable times how disproportionate response can oftentimes end a war. It is the same principle used in barroom brawling: If someone punches you in the nose, you must assume he has no intention of stopping with that one punch, which means your response should be to repeatedly and viciously hit him over the head with the barkeep’s Louisville Slugger until sufficient evidence is presented that causes you to believe the fellow is no longer a threat. It all has to do with the concepts of survival and victory. And, as an added attraction, word will get around town that you are not to be trifled with.

Funny, but we haven’t really been inundated with liberal newspaper editorials lamenting Hamas and Hezbollah’s unending attacks on Israel with Qassam and Katyusha missiles and demanding the terrorists cease and desist, now have we? Why do you suppose that is? And why, as soon as Israel decides enough is enough, do you suppose liberal newspaper editorials from coast to coast attack the Jews for having the temerity to vigorously defend themselves?

Naturally, many liberals are screaming that a “disproportionate response” to an attack is illegal. This is an asinine claim with no basis in fact. And any professional military man will tell you that the military commander who orders only proportionate responses to attacks will soon be dead or relieved of command. If a commander comes up against a platoon in the defense dug into a fortified position on a hill, he doesn’t send one of his platoons against the enemy platoon. He sends a reinforced company with armor, artillery and close-air support. And he employs every weapon he can get his hands on short of a tactical nuke. That’s how you win, people.

No part of the Laws and Customs of War on Land requires warring parties to use proportional force in response to an attack. Are we pretty clear on that?

The leader of the liberals is Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. Edvard Munch must have somehow looked into the future to find and use Dean as his paradigm for “The Scream.”

There is no more delusional an extremist liberal in American politics than Howard Dean and, yes, that’s saying something because he has a slew of competition. However, to give you his most recent example of just how unhinged a weirdo he is, while addressing an audience of braying liberals in San Diego this past Sunday at a lemmingesque gathering called DemocracyFest at San Diego State University, Dean claimed that, if Democrats were in charge, Israel would not have needed to invade Lebanon because this diuturnal conundrum would have been handily deciphered years ago by the sagacious liberals.

Said Doctor Demento: “If you think what’s going on in the Middle East today would be going on if the Democrats were in control, it wouldn’t, because we would have worked day after day after day to make sure we didn’t get where we are today. We would have had the moral authority that Bill Clinton had when he brought together the Northern Irish and the IRA, when he brought together the Israelis and the Palestinians.”

Yes, Howard, you Democrats sure did a dandy job on not only the Middle East, but North Korea, China, Congo, Somalia, the Pakistan-India fracas, the Philippines, the birth and global rise of al Qaeda, the intercontinental expansion of Hezbollah, Zimbabwe, Vietnam, Cuba, etc. I can’t determine what he is babbling about when he says Clinton brought the “Northern Irish and the IRA” together, given that the Irish Republican Army is from Northern Ireland. And on the same day Dean made his bizarre claim that Clinton had brought Israel and the Palestinians together, Israel again walloped the Palestinian Authority’s Foreign Ministry compound. The man lives on Planet Preposterous in the Screw-Loose Galaxy.

In the end, liberals are a spineless lot who have once again shown their true colors, every one of which is a sickly and sickening shade of yellow.

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Once again Gunny Bob nails it. I have never understood the very concept of proportional response. In war you fight to win. No ifs ands, or buts. Our troops deserve all the support that we can drum up, and then some. The Israeli’s deserve the same. We are, after all is said and done, fighting the very same enemy.

Matthew Fisher, CanWest News Service

Published: Saturday, August 05, 2006

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HALAT, Lebanon — As Hezbollah continued to rain hundreds of rockets down on northern Israel, the wrath of the Israeli air force exploded spectacularly out of a clear blue sky Friday morning on a steep hill above this posh, mainly Christian seaside hamlet 50 kilometres north of Beirut.

A 150-metre long span of a key bridge on the main four-lane coastal highway that links the capital to northern Lebanon was ripped apart and thrown into the dry riverbed below by precision-guided weapons fired from Israeli warplanes.

“Oh my God, it’s all gone,” said nurse Ali Haider, as he peered down at a huge jumble of twisted steel and chunks of concrete and asphalt. “I had had a weird feeling that the Israelis would go after this bridge and now it has happened.”

Passengers in one car died when the bridge collapsed, as did a passerby who was going for an early morning jog.

The attack missed by only 50 metres a group of several dozen Shia children who had fled the fighting in the south with their parents and had been sheltering at a Christian school.

“If we had had any idea that they would attack here, too, we would never have come,” said Suleiman Yusef Suleiman, who had moved here one week ago from a village five kilometres from the Israeli border. “There is no safety anywhere in Lebanon today.”

Three other bridges on the highway, including an even longer span that soars dramatically above the Casino du Liban, were badly damaged as Israel sought to sever routes that it believes Hezbollah has been using to move weapons from Syria and the Bekaa Valley into southern Lebanon.

But the Red Cross and UN humanitarian agencies complained that this route was almost the last way they had to bring emergency supplies into Lebanon, where nearly 900,000 people have been displaced by the fighting in the south and the bombings in Beirut.

Hezbollah, which threatened to bomb Israel’s business centre, Tel Aviv, on Thursday, was not quiet Friday either. It fired 195 missiles into Israel according to police there, killing three members of Israel’s Arab Druze minority. One of the rockets launched Friday landed 75 kilometres inside Israel at Hadera, deeper in the country than ever before, but still 40 kilometres shy of Tel Aviv.

Three Israeli soldiers also died in fighting Friday inside Lebanon’s border with Israel, bringing the total of Israel war dead to 74. Lebanon’s official death tally is nearly 700, but officials believe that the bodies of at least 200 more people have not yet been recovered from collapsed buildings.

Israel not only attacked Lebanon’s principal northern traffic artery Friday, it carried out a series of air strikes across the country. Most of the raids were in the south, in support of Israeli ground troops which have been locked in lethal combat with Hezbollah for many days now.

Southern Beirut was shaken by several waves of bombing overnight and again Friday morning. Israeli warplanes returned to the skies over the capital late Friday.

The deadliest attack of the day was 150 kilometres north of Israel at a fruit farm in the hamlet of Qaa, which is in Lebanese territory in the no man’s land at the northern end of the Bekaa Valley between Lebanon and Syria. As many as 33 men, many of them Syrian Kurds whom Lebanese authorities described as labourers, died when Israel targeted a group of trucks that had just arrived from Syria.

Give them hell Israel! It looks like the whole world is angry with Israel for defending itself. Nothing new about that. I still wonder though why the MSM has failed to properly report about the constant rocket attacks on civilian populations in Israel that had been going on for months. The terrorist’s only understand one thing. Pure unadulterated force. The Lebanese need to learn that if they harbor terrorists there will be consequences. Allow them to hide among your women and children don’t be suprised in the least if some of your loved ones get killed.

Perhaps this should have been placed under “Stupid is as stupid does?”