I've been watching the news and reading some of the comments here and I'm becoming a bit irritated with Hamas supporters.
Consider this my list of annoyances...
* Israel is being accused of war crimes because they accidentally injure/kill civilians. The news media and Hamas apologists on this blog, not to mention the UN are all about investigating and prosecuting Israeli's.
No one says a word about Hamas purposely targeting civilians everytime they launch a rocket barrage toward one of the Israeli cities.
* People are talking about proportionality in warfare. This one is particularly annoying. Let the USMC go into combat against an enemy and we have proportional casualties and I'll personally be traveling to Quantico to kick someone's ass. if you're waging warfare correctly then you better be getting lopsided results on the battlefield. If you have a small, high tech, mechanized force then by God you damn well NEED to make sure that the enemy is bleeding more than your forces.
The same applies to the IDF. The proportionality idiots in the media need to seriously suck a dick.
* The US State Dept. These clowns are looking at a crisis in Europe that needs serious attention yet we have the Sec of State in the Middle East dealing with the conflict there. You attack the most serious issues first and despite the attention that the cocktail set gives the Palestinian movement, its just not that important in the grand scheme of things. Quite honestly I rank world issues in this order....
1. Ukraine.
2. Iraq-ISIS issue.
3. Jordan refugee crisis.
4. Syria.
5. Boko Haram in Nigeria.
6. Saudi Arabia/Qatar/UAE insurgency issues.
7. Afghanistan....and then finally....
8. Israel vs. Hamas.
Its ok for a blog to become focused on a conflict. Because of my support for Israel and my watching the performance of their military, its captured my attention.
But make no mistake about it (yep, gonna repeat myself...again) the Ukraine crisis is the one that will wreck the global economy and plunge us all into a recession (well a deeper recession).
Consider this my list of annoyances...
* Israel is being accused of war crimes because they accidentally injure/kill civilians. The news media and Hamas apologists on this blog, not to mention the UN are all about investigating and prosecuting Israeli's.
No one says a word about Hamas purposely targeting civilians everytime they launch a rocket barrage toward one of the Israeli cities.
* People are talking about proportionality in warfare. This one is particularly annoying. Let the USMC go into combat against an enemy and we have proportional casualties and I'll personally be traveling to Quantico to kick someone's ass. if you're waging warfare correctly then you better be getting lopsided results on the battlefield. If you have a small, high tech, mechanized force then by God you damn well NEED to make sure that the enemy is bleeding more than your forces.
The same applies to the IDF. The proportionality idiots in the media need to seriously suck a dick.
* The US State Dept. These clowns are looking at a crisis in Europe that needs serious attention yet we have the Sec of State in the Middle East dealing with the conflict there. You attack the most serious issues first and despite the attention that the cocktail set gives the Palestinian movement, its just not that important in the grand scheme of things. Quite honestly I rank world issues in this order....
1. Ukraine.
2. Iraq-ISIS issue.
3. Jordan refugee crisis.
4. Syria.
5. Boko Haram in Nigeria.
6. Saudi Arabia/Qatar/UAE insurgency issues.
7. Afghanistan....and then finally....
8. Israel vs. Hamas.
Its ok for a blog to become focused on a conflict. Because of my support for Israel and my watching the performance of their military, its captured my attention.
But make no mistake about it (yep, gonna repeat myself...again) the Ukraine crisis is the one that will wreck the global economy and plunge us all into a recession (well a deeper recession).
That's why I don't (usually) watch TV anymore... Too much stupidly and non sense
ReplyDeleteIf I want to know something, I do a little research on the Internet and that's it
This should be obvious for the ones incharge of this situation, the mess in ukraine is directly related to rusia (well, the middle east situation too, that was their bussines in the cold war too, but not that obvious for the general public), it's in Europe, which means NATO/EU, which means pretty much the center (i hope i'm not too biased when i say "the center" )
ReplyDeleteAnyway, an eye should also be kept on tvarish merkel, maybe the french will bring back the spy ship to the black sea after they deliver the Mistral ships to rusia...which people say their final destination will be Sevastopol...
Another crisis closer to home as well.
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thats not a crisis, simply confirmation of what we all know. buy ammo, save food and get ready for a flood from the southern hemisphere.
DeleteGood post. And good idea from above. The Mexican border needs strong medicine.
ReplyDeleteSolomon you put your views so well in writing and use some direct turns of phrase and I appreciate your analysis of what goes on in this stupid, lopsided world.
ReplyDeleteGood post.
Years ago in another life, I happened to overhear a conversation between a US ensign and an IDF officer (we were actually on a tour of the Heineken factory but that is another story) Anyway, the ensign was complaining about the disproportionality of Israeli response to PLO (remember them?) acts of terrorism. The IDF officer answered: What would be the US response if San Diego was getting shelled indiscriminately from Tijuana?
ReplyDeleteAt that moment, the issue became clear to me and to this day I find it extremely hard to criticize Israel, at least on this issue.
On the contrary, I find their restraint admirable.
Two men kick down your door and attack your wife and daughter, you smash your budweiser bottle, cut the throat of the man trying to rape you daughter.
DeleteYou pause
Your wife screams "help me"
You turn to her and say, "Sorry dear I cant, I've already killed one of them, it wouldnt be proportional"
Nice list Sol.
ReplyDeleteThe Israel/Hamas thing gets more play than it frankly deserves. But that's because of who owns our media, and the location of the conflict in the holy land.
I'd really rather see more of what's happening in Ukraine militarily, but all we get day-to-day is one side's BS claims or the other. No coverage from which we can really derive a good strategic picture. Or see what tactics are being used on the ground.
The outcome of the Ukraine crisis is already written. The spoiler version is that Russia gets the land it wants. Russia doesn't make a move that it hasn't already won, first in Georgia now in Ukraine.
ReplyDeleteIt is all over but the fighting.
Now the alternate version is that somehow the international community gets pulled into the mess, and shit goes from bad to worse for everyone but the non-separatist Ukrainians. Best outcome from this scenario is another set of "peacekeeping" missions that end up with more balkanization and redrawing of political borders, in which case Russia still gets what it wants. Worst case scenario is WWIII, after which Russia will still get the land it wants.
Yes, that's the strategic picture. But I'd like to know some verifiable details on force sizes, tactics being used, losses, etc. In many ways, this is the first modern European war, and it would be nice to see how well the old theories/doctrine are holding up.
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