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2006-07-13 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Jewish Extremist group: We kidnapped 2 Palestinians

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Posted by lotp 2006-07-13 16:20|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Paleos don't have exclusive rights to being morons.

Posted by Darrell 2006-07-13 16:32|| 2006-07-13 16:32|| Front Page Top

#2 The problem with this approach is that the Paleos and their fellow travelers don't give a sh*t about other Paleos. I imagine their collective response will be: So?

Posted by Spot">Spot 2006-07-13 16:32|| 2006-07-13 16:32|| Front Page Top

#3 They will eventually be caught by the israeli security forces and sentenced for that, after having achieved nothing, except making Israel loses a few more points in the PR war, by justifying the moral equivalence theory.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-07-13 16:47|| 2006-07-13 16:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Hamas want's to trade Gilad for bloodthirsty murderers, not honest workers. There isn't any work in the Palestinian Terr. anyway, what the hell would they do with more workers.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-07-13 16:48|| 2006-07-13 16:48|| Front Page Top

#5 I certainly don't advocate this kind of vigilante behavior, but frankly I'm shocked we haven't seen a lot more of it.

Posted by WhiteCollarRedneck 2006-07-13 16:59|| 2006-07-13 16:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh, shit. I think Wretchard used to talk about this. I think this is the second of the Three Conjectures. Does that mean that the third has now expired? In which case, we're all up the creek.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2006-07-13 16:59|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2006-07-13 16:59|| Front Page Top

#7 I support this 100%.

Posted by Destro in Indiana 2006-07-13 17:15|| 2006-07-13 17:15|| Front Page Top

#8 I don't think that's it Mitch.

The Three Conjectures

Briefly summarising;

Conjecture 1: Terrorism has lowered the nuclear threshold

It used to be that just having the nuclear capabiliy to destroy the US was not enough, the Soviet Union had to have the intent to do so as well. They did not have that intent for many reasons, one of which was they were rational actors and were fully aware of MAD. With Islamists, the intention is definitely there, they just don't have the capability, which leads onto...

Conjecture 2: Attaining WMDs will destroy Islam

If Islamists gain reliable and plentiful supplies of weapons, they will use them, and there will be a response.

President Bush's West Point address in 2002 contained deterrence -- the promise of massive retaliation against nations -- means nothing against shadowy terrorist networks with no nation or citizens to defend.

Wretchard's logic is that because there is no one to negotiate with (or even to surrender to), 'tit-for-tat' nuclear strikes will not stop the carnage, so the West (or Russia or China) decides that with the first nuclear attack that the rational response is all-out massive retaliation, and the Islamic world just ceases to be.

Something else Wretchard says; Even if Islam killed every non-Muslim on earth they would almost certainly continue to kill each other with their new-found weaponry. We have seen several years of Shia and Sunni killing each other in every vaster numbers (and today I found out that the Druze are thought of as heretics by both Shia and Sunni).

Conjecture 3: The War on Terror is the 'Golden Hour' -- the final chance

The third conjecture is simply that the survival of the Islamic world depends on the success of the War on Terror.

Whether you agree with all Wretchard's conclusions, there is a horrible inevitability with how these events are unfolding...

Posted by Tony (UK) 2006-07-13 17:32|| 2006-07-13 17:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Darn, where is the 12th imam when you need him? Oh, he is hiding in the well reading a note from the mullas asking him to save their ass. Or was that Osama?

Posted by DESNC 2006-07-13 17:32|| 2006-07-13 17:32|| Front Page Top

#10 I think this will be seen as a PR victory if Israel can nab these guys and return the hostages unharmed. The contrast in handling will be undeniable.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-13 17:43|| 2006-07-13 17:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Well I think it's worth noting that the Jewish extremists are criminals, the Palestinian and Lebanese abductors are agents of their respective governments.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-07-13 18:15|| 2006-07-13 18:15|| Front Page Top

#12 I think #7 may be a speck of moonbat droppings left by someone out to discredit the 'burg.

Newsflash, hotshot- the problem most people around here have with Palestinians is their degenerate political culture which glorifies random pointless violence for its own sake. No way is this sort of stupidity going to get applause because its directed the other way. I think we know better than to sink to such a level.

I just wouldn't want a casual observer to get the wrong idea. The point is to get the other guy to fix his moral compass, not to bust up your own.

Posted by Baba Tutu 2006-07-13 22:27|| 2006-07-13 22:27|| Front Page Top

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