Here's how you deal with terrorists...
I'm surprised there's nobody reporting on this (actually, no I'm not, because it crushes every argument the mostly liberal media has been putting forth...) Sheikh Nasrallah of Hezbollah has unwittingly confirmed what conservatives have been saying all along about dealing with terrorism. He said in an interview "Had we known that the kidnapping of the soldiers would have led to this, we would definitely not have done it".
***TA-DA!!!*** and there you have it folks... if the terrorists start crap, none of this "oh we're sorry we offended you, here, let's talk diplomatically..." No... you stuff it right back in their face and utterly crush them. Sooner or later they'll get the hint. But you know what? It only works if you've got a stronger military force than they do, and are fully capable of utterly crushing them.
The lesson? Thank you Mr. Clinton for crippling our military to the point that we are still struggling to fight a long term war against a ragtag bunch of knuckleheaded fundamentalist muslims who think that blowing themselves up (along with a school bus full of children) will get them into paradise.
Story below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5291420.stm
Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has said he would not have ordered the capture of two Israeli soldiers if he had known it would lead to such a war.
"Had we known that the kidnapping of the soldiers would have led to this, we would definitely not have done it," he said in an interview on Lebanese TV.
He added that neither side was "heading towards a second round" of fighting.
More than 1,000 Lebanese died in the 34-day conflict which left much of southern Lebanon in ruins.
The Israeli offensive began after two Israeli soldiers were seized during a cross border raid by Hezbollah militants on 12 July.
Annan visit
"We did not think that there was a 1% chance that the kidnapping would lead to a war of this scale and magnitude," Sheikh Nasrallah said.
"Now you ask me if this was 11 July and there was a 1% chance that the kidnapping would lead to a war like the one that has taken place, would you go ahead with the kidnapping?
"I would say no, definitely not, for humanitarian, moral, social, security, military and political reasons.
"Neither I, Hezbollah, prisoners in Israeli jails and nor the families of the prisoners would accept it."
Sheikh Nasrallah was speaking on the eve of a visit to Beirut by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan to discuss the expanded UN peacekeeping force to be deployed in southern Lebanon.
A force of 15,000 soldiers, 7,000 of them from European Union states, will be deployed to maintain the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
The UN hopes to have some of the troops on the ground within a week, although the foreign minister of Finland - which currently holds the EU presidency - has said it will be two to three months before the whole force is deployed.
The force will be led by France until February, at which time Italy will take command.
Speaking in Brussels on Friday, Mr Annan said the plan would only work if the enlarged UN force, called Unifil 2, was "strong, credible and robust".
Mr Annan said the force offered the possibility of a "durable ceasefire and long-term solution" to the Middle East crisis.
***TA-DA!!!*** and there you have it folks... if the terrorists start crap, none of this "oh we're sorry we offended you, here, let's talk diplomatically..." No... you stuff it right back in their face and utterly crush them. Sooner or later they'll get the hint. But you know what? It only works if you've got a stronger military force than they do, and are fully capable of utterly crushing them.
The lesson? Thank you Mr. Clinton for crippling our military to the point that we are still struggling to fight a long term war against a ragtag bunch of knuckleheaded fundamentalist muslims who think that blowing themselves up (along with a school bus full of children) will get them into paradise.
Story below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5291420.stm
Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has said he would not have ordered the capture of two Israeli soldiers if he had known it would lead to such a war.
"Had we known that the kidnapping of the soldiers would have led to this, we would definitely not have done it," he said in an interview on Lebanese TV.
He added that neither side was "heading towards a second round" of fighting.
More than 1,000 Lebanese died in the 34-day conflict which left much of southern Lebanon in ruins.
The Israeli offensive began after two Israeli soldiers were seized during a cross border raid by Hezbollah militants on 12 July.
Annan visit
"We did not think that there was a 1% chance that the kidnapping would lead to a war of this scale and magnitude," Sheikh Nasrallah said.
"Now you ask me if this was 11 July and there was a 1% chance that the kidnapping would lead to a war like the one that has taken place, would you go ahead with the kidnapping?
"I would say no, definitely not, for humanitarian, moral, social, security, military and political reasons.
"Neither I, Hezbollah, prisoners in Israeli jails and nor the families of the prisoners would accept it."
Sheikh Nasrallah was speaking on the eve of a visit to Beirut by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan to discuss the expanded UN peacekeeping force to be deployed in southern Lebanon.
A force of 15,000 soldiers, 7,000 of them from European Union states, will be deployed to maintain the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
The UN hopes to have some of the troops on the ground within a week, although the foreign minister of Finland - which currently holds the EU presidency - has said it will be two to three months before the whole force is deployed.
The force will be led by France until February, at which time Italy will take command.
Speaking in Brussels on Friday, Mr Annan said the plan would only work if the enlarged UN force, called Unifil 2, was "strong, credible and robust".
Mr Annan said the force offered the possibility of a "durable ceasefire and long-term solution" to the Middle East crisis.
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