Cox & Forkum has a great post on the idiocy of disparaging Israel for the use of “Disproportionate Response”:
This notion is ludicrous when considered in the full context: Hezbollah and Hamas initiated the current crisis in an ongoing war against Israel’s right to exist. Notice that no one cried “disproportionate response” when Hamas demanded 1,200 prisoners in exchange for one Israeli hostage. Hamas and Hezbollah aren’t playing a game of proportions, why should Israel?
Read the whole thing.
My stomach turned when I heard the “disproportinate response” thing, too. When you are attacked by an enemy who is hell bent on destroying you, you don’t attack “proportinately” — otherwise you’ll be in a perpetual deadlock. The only way to defeat an enemy that wants to kill you is to kill them first, faster, and in greater numbers. Period.
Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute is writes: World Leaders Encourage Hezbollah and Hamas.
“The worldwide condemnation of Israel’s retaliation against Lebanon is morally obscene,” said Dr. Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute. “The calls effectively demand that the innocent victim be sacrificed to the aggressor.”"Instead of excoriating Hezbollah and helping Israel to annihilate it, President Bush and other leaders urged that the victim, Israel, not cause ‘excessive’ damage to the aggressor–and begged that no harm come to Lebanon’s terrorist-supporting government. Were Israel to follow such calls, it would have to leave in place the terrorist leadership and infrastructure that works to abduct, blow up and slaughter Israelis.
“The obscene premise governing so many of the West’s leaders is the belief that we have no moral right to defend ourselves against the forces of Islamist barbarism.
“All of this can serve only to encourage Islamic totalitarian groups to intensify their war on Israel–and the West.”
Yep (above emphasis is mine).
Fox News reporting Arab world leaders (excluding Syria and Iran) are privately hoping H ez and Ham are wiped out so the rest of the Arab world can get on with their prosperity and the good life. Let’s hope a lot more goes on behind the scenes to eliminate these terrorist groups. This could be the biggest threat Iran and Syria have ever faced.
Left by dianne on July 17th, 2006 at 10:37 am