Damned if he hasn't already justified the the question:
Dog vomit where his soul should should be.In a statement delivered to the White House press pool, President Obama responded to the attack by declaring that "too many Palestinians have died," as well as Israelis, in the struggle between the state of Israel and the terrorist group Hamas and its affiliates, including the internationally active Muslim Brotherhood. "At this difficult time," the President told reports, "I think it's important for both Palestinians and Israelis to try to work together to lower tensions and reject violence.""We have to remind ourselves that the majority of Palestinians and Israelis overwhelmingly want peace," the statement concludes, before the President begins remarks on the Ebola crisis in West Africa. The President did not take questions.
It's easy to look up the # of terrorist casualties since 1951 in Israel. Since 1989 there have been 804. I heard Dennis Miller bemoaning what used to be the US like you do, like we're supposed to declare all out war thus time. What makes this time so different? And what has any other president done that is su j a grand display of carbine cajones in support of Israel,
ReplyDeleteIsrael is the lone Western nation in the middle east. Therefore it is on the front line of the non-Western world's assault on our civilization, our way of life, and our most deeply held values.
ReplyDeleteDid you catch these stats in any of those chunks of dog vomit you are so wont to analyze? Is there a difference between steaming chunks and just chunks?
ReplyDeleteThese 5 countries accounted for nearly all the world’s terrorism deaths last year:
"...the Global Terrorism Index notes that there were 17,958 deaths from terrorism in 60 countries last year, the numbers show that more than 80 percent of those deaths occurred in just five countries and accounted for the global figures going up.
The five countries are:
Iraq — where 2,492 incidents in 2013 left 6,362 dead.
Afghanistan — where 1,148 incidents left 3,111 dead.
Pakistan — where 1,933 incidents left 2,345 dead.
Nigeria — where 303 incidents left 1,826 dead.
Syria — where 217 incidents left 1,078 dead.
The next country on the list is India, where 624 incidents left 404 people dead, the IEP finds. The wealthy countries that make up the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) suffered a slim minority of terrorism fatalities. Turkey had 34 attacks and 57 deaths in 2013, the highest of any OECD country, while the United States had nine attacks and six deaths. The United Kingdom had a high number of attacks (131), but most of these were small-scale attacks in Northern Ireland and left only three dead. Israel had 28 attacks in 2013 that left two people dead (the Palestinian territories are not included in the index).
And although it may seem morally right to fight them, other evidence suggests that it may not help that much in the long run. The report finds that 80 percent of all the terrorist organizations that have ceased to operate since the 1960s did so probably because of policing or politicization efforts. Just 10 percent of the groups could be said to have achieved their aims — and just 7 percent were eliminated by military engagement.
Read more at http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/11/18/these-5-countries-accounted-for-nearly-all-the-worlds-terrorism-deaths-last-year/?tid=sm_fb
And what did al these terrorist incidents have in common? Islamist ideology, which has as its core the destruction of any infidel way of life.
ReplyDeleteAnd today's terrorist - read jihadist - organization is a much different critter from those of a few decades ago.
Go back and refresh yourself on what Andrew McCarthy, Robert Spencer, Pam Gellar and Frank Gaffney have to say.
ReplyDeleteThe point is, ours and Israel's casualties are relatively minimal. These are 2013 figures. Yesterday's casualties are sill nothing to send the hardware in. Bit if Nettie wants to can and will. Obama is merely trying not to take sides. You view this as weak dog vomit, I see it as dogged diplomacy, in keeping with the Tao, it has and will later be arguably revealed.
ReplyDeleteI see it as Israel hatred which he learned at Rashid Khalidi's kitchen table.
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