PittsburghAfterDark
07-20-2006, 02:37 AM
Many in the West have falsely tried to attach moral relativism to Islam as a faith and to Hamas and Hezbollah as revolutionaries in the spirit of those throwing off a colonial yoke.??What's transpired in the past few weeks has blown apart that belief in absolute terms.
What started out as two, apparently though not undeniably so, separate gun battles and kidnappings has exposed Islamic and terrorist beliefs for all to see.??Both groups are no longer fighting for a seat at the table and their voice to be heard.??They both maintain solid representation in Gaza and the Lebanese parliaments.??Unfortunately as the saying goes a leopard cannot change its spots.
Once a terrorist organization, always a terrorist organization.??Both organizations should have learned from the past history of revolutions, once you have power, kill the revolutionaries.??Old Soviet saying of course.
What transpired as an attempt to force Israel to trade prisoners has now completely backfired.??Now you see the true face of the Arab and Muslim militant psyche.??They do not walk the walk of being a "good" Muslim.??A good Muslim would acknowledge a wrongdoing and protect innocent life at all costs.
We know how that's working out.??The Religion of Peace is aghast that kidnapping is met with brute force.??Rather than admit a wrong and make a peaceable exchange that would end this situation their pride cannot allow it.??The terrorists that caused this crisis are destroying the lives of millions in Gaza and Lebanon.??They would rather have a people impotent to even live a normal existence in Gaza and destroy a country than admit wrongdoing.
Three soldiers are what caused this.??Three soldiers are what could end this.
Hamas has no real power anymore.??Their aid is cut off; their borders being sealed from the Israeli and Egyptian sides destroy their economic activity.??Their ability to generate electricity is gone.??Only the lines from Israel itself prevent the Gaza from going black like North Korea.??For all the talks of a disproportionate response, if Israel is leaving the lights on, it's not disproportionate.?? The suffering of 2-3 million people in the Gaza Strip doesn't matter to the elected government if it means their pride is wounded giving up one simple draftee.
Likewise Hezbollah is no longer the "guerilla" organization claimed by Reuters, AP, CNN, USA Today, NBC, ABC, CBS and yes, even Fox.??They're a major political party with significant representation in the Lebanese government.??The arguments from the Lebanese PM that democracy is threatened in Lebanon are laughable.??No, your democracy put these people at the tables of power.??This is not an organization running roughshod over the will of the people; the people gave them power.
The equivalent is a political party in America; you pick which one that has a problem with Mexico or Canada.??That party puts together a "guerilla" read "private" army to stand up to foreign governments they believe have wronged them.??This private army decides to go kidnap a few Mexicans, maybe a few Canadians.??Then the leaders of that political party in government deny that they can do a damn thing about the situation.
Then when Canada or Mexico retaliate???Oh!??Send someone out there to cry about the disproportionate response.
The Islamic faith is called into question, yet again, when there has been no outcry from any kind of religious leader to the wrongness of these terrorist actions that have led to immeasurable suffering of civilians.??I can no longer call the people of Gaza or southern Lebanon innocent civilians as, well, significant percentages of them voted for these people to represent them.
No longer can the West ever look at a group with terrorist roots in the Middle East as a potential harbinger of peace or capable of negotiating in good faith.??Of course I knew that long before Arafat turned down the 1996 offer that could have ended all of this and was still given the Nobel Peace Prize.
There is no moral relativism here anymore.??The good of the few, for the prize of having three prisoners, has outweighed the good of millions.
The only thing more pathetic than this whole situation is that there are countless in the West that will still try and defend Hamas and Hezbollah and maintain Israel is acting in bad faith and the villain.??Proving once again some people standing on their heads will still try and convince the rest of the world it's upside down.
What started out as two, apparently though not undeniably so, separate gun battles and kidnappings has exposed Islamic and terrorist beliefs for all to see.??Both groups are no longer fighting for a seat at the table and their voice to be heard.??They both maintain solid representation in Gaza and the Lebanese parliaments.??Unfortunately as the saying goes a leopard cannot change its spots.
Once a terrorist organization, always a terrorist organization.??Both organizations should have learned from the past history of revolutions, once you have power, kill the revolutionaries.??Old Soviet saying of course.
What transpired as an attempt to force Israel to trade prisoners has now completely backfired.??Now you see the true face of the Arab and Muslim militant psyche.??They do not walk the walk of being a "good" Muslim.??A good Muslim would acknowledge a wrongdoing and protect innocent life at all costs.
We know how that's working out.??The Religion of Peace is aghast that kidnapping is met with brute force.??Rather than admit a wrong and make a peaceable exchange that would end this situation their pride cannot allow it.??The terrorists that caused this crisis are destroying the lives of millions in Gaza and Lebanon.??They would rather have a people impotent to even live a normal existence in Gaza and destroy a country than admit wrongdoing.
Three soldiers are what caused this.??Three soldiers are what could end this.
Hamas has no real power anymore.??Their aid is cut off; their borders being sealed from the Israeli and Egyptian sides destroy their economic activity.??Their ability to generate electricity is gone.??Only the lines from Israel itself prevent the Gaza from going black like North Korea.??For all the talks of a disproportionate response, if Israel is leaving the lights on, it's not disproportionate.?? The suffering of 2-3 million people in the Gaza Strip doesn't matter to the elected government if it means their pride is wounded giving up one simple draftee.
Likewise Hezbollah is no longer the "guerilla" organization claimed by Reuters, AP, CNN, USA Today, NBC, ABC, CBS and yes, even Fox.??They're a major political party with significant representation in the Lebanese government.??The arguments from the Lebanese PM that democracy is threatened in Lebanon are laughable.??No, your democracy put these people at the tables of power.??This is not an organization running roughshod over the will of the people; the people gave them power.
The equivalent is a political party in America; you pick which one that has a problem with Mexico or Canada.??That party puts together a "guerilla" read "private" army to stand up to foreign governments they believe have wronged them.??This private army decides to go kidnap a few Mexicans, maybe a few Canadians.??Then the leaders of that political party in government deny that they can do a damn thing about the situation.
Then when Canada or Mexico retaliate???Oh!??Send someone out there to cry about the disproportionate response.
The Islamic faith is called into question, yet again, when there has been no outcry from any kind of religious leader to the wrongness of these terrorist actions that have led to immeasurable suffering of civilians.??I can no longer call the people of Gaza or southern Lebanon innocent civilians as, well, significant percentages of them voted for these people to represent them.
No longer can the West ever look at a group with terrorist roots in the Middle East as a potential harbinger of peace or capable of negotiating in good faith.??Of course I knew that long before Arafat turned down the 1996 offer that could have ended all of this and was still given the Nobel Peace Prize.
There is no moral relativism here anymore.??The good of the few, for the prize of having three prisoners, has outweighed the good of millions.
The only thing more pathetic than this whole situation is that there are countless in the West that will still try and defend Hamas and Hezbollah and maintain Israel is acting in bad faith and the villain.??Proving once again some people standing on their heads will still try and convince the rest of the world it's upside down.