Political analysis
Sacrificing Israel
- By NotYourDaddy
- February 12, 2008
People keep telling me that the terrorists wouldn’t hate us if we didn’t support Israel. Apparently, it’s our own fault they attacked us on 9/11, because they had already warned us many times to stop supporting Israel and get out of the Middle East. If only we had obeyed, they never would have attacked us on our own soil, killing thousands of innocent civilians and attempting to blow up our Pentagon.
I thought it was common knowledge that it’s a bad idea to negotiate with hostage-takers, extortionists and terrorists. When you give in to their demands, you show they’re stronger than you are. Once they’ve confirmed their advantage, they inevitably escalate their demands. But these folks seem convinced that, if we’d done what the terrorists wanted, they really would have left us alone.
And what was it they were demanding? Only that we give them Israel, — that we turn our backs and allow them to take out our strongest ally in that part of the world. Wow. That’s a pretty heavy price to pay, even for a promise to stop killing our citizens. I don’t think I’d be very comfortable with betraying an ally and leaving them like a sitting duck for their/our enemies to destroy, in return for a promise made by madmen to leave us alone.
Those who promote this course of action assume these fanatical extremists are honorable men who negotiate in good faith, and would keep their word to us if we just sacrificed our friends to their ideological blood lust. That isn’t very likely. They hate us. They hate our culture. They believe the freedoms we hold dear are abominations in the eyes of their god, who will reward them for smiting us.
They would not be satisfied with simply destroying Israel, as they promise to do if we let them. Once Allah granted them that victory, they’d take it as a sign and grow bolder. It might take time to build up their nuclear arsenal, and other weapons of mass destruction, while we obediently look the other way but, eventually, they’d get back to us.
Back in the days of the cold war, the threat of Mutual Assured Destruction acted as a deterrent to nuclear attacks. In the war with the terrorists, we’re dealing with a suicide bomber mentality. If there’s any way for them to take us out, they will. Mutual Assured Destruction is no deterrent for them, because they don’t care if they get taken out along with us. As long as they destroy us, Allah will reward them in the afterlife. How do you deter an enemy who has no fear of death? — There is only one way. By preventing them from ever having the means to strike first.
Sacrificing Israel on the altar of terrorism will not save us. And it would be a cowardly betrayal, not only of our ally, but of our own interests as well.
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Sacrificing Israel is not the worst thing that can happen to them. Having an ALLY like the US is. Maybe we should let them self-determine what is best for their sovereignty rather than coercing them into submission everytime a terrorist blows up in a cafe. I’m pretty certain that Israel can take care of itself, and would probably have far less to worry about if America kept out of their business.
This reminds me of my children at a young age, lets play together, you just do everything I say! Lets stop the immaturity and wrecklessness in our foreign policy.
191 days ago by James Morris
I’m not sure I get your point, James. Are you saying the U.S. coerces Israel into submission? Perhaps it would be more clear if you provide an example.
190 days ago by NotYourDaddy
I agree that we should help our friends. It’s an American principle when it comes to foriegn policy and here domestically at a macro level. HOWEVER, we seem to always be doing the heavy lifting for the Jews. We should just be one friend ready to help them out, but not using them as some sort of proxy for our national will. These guys need to have more skin in the game form my POV
189 days ago by AmericanMade
It’s erroroneous to refer to Israel as “the Jews.” There are many Israelis who are not, in fact, Jewish. There are also many Jews around the world who don’t support Israel.
I would ask you, just as I asked James, what do you mean by “using Israel as some sort of proxy for our national will?” Also, please clarify what you mean by Israel needing to have more skin in the game. The way I see it, Israel has their entire hide in the game. They’re surrounded on all sides by enemies who want to see their nation driven into the sea.
Israel has denied their involvement in the bombing of the Hezbollah leader yesterday who masterminded the suicide bombings on U.S. military bases in Lebanon, as well as hijackings and other attacks on American citizens in the 1980s, killing approximately 300 Americans. He was on the FBIs most wanted terrorist list, and the U.S. has offered a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture.
Whoever took this guy out has done us a great service. Maybe it was Israel; maybe it wasn’t. I can’t think of who else would/could do it (except maybe us, and we don’t seem to have the intelligence or the ability to carry off such and operation). In any case, Israel will pay the price for it, and face the retaliation from the Arab states. Hezbollah today declared open war on them. So how much skin do you think they should have in the game that they don’t have? Just curious.
189 days ago by NotYourDaddy
With “friends” like Israel, we shall never want for enemies.
185 days ago by Bill W