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On the Brink John LeBoutillier We are on the brink of a wider - and more deadly - war in the Middle East. Hamas' and Hezbollah's coordinated dual attacks on Israel - employing the same sneak-attack and kidnapping strategy indicating close cooperation and timing - have sparked the very real possibility that this war could extend into Syria and even into Iran. We would be making a mistake to underestimate the seriousness of this conflict: When Arabs and Persians start throwing around terms like "another Holocaust" you have to wonder if this isn't coordinated in Iran and Damascus. Radical Islam - already on a Jihad against the United States - has now targeted Israel and is determined to provoke the Jewish state. Their ultimate goal? Who knows? Yes, they'd like to "wipe Israel off the map," as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said. Any logical mind, however, knows that isn't going to happen. But the Arab and Muslim mind is not a logical mind. It is clouded with hatred. So trying to deduce what these misfits with rockets are up to isn't easy. If Hamas and Hezbollah were operating as independent terrorist groups, Israel could easily deal with them; they'd wipe out their leadership, as they've done in the past. But it appears that Tehran and Damascus are in fact directing this war on Israel.
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That changes everything. That makes this a full-fledged war between nations - and Israel has tough choices to make:
1) Hit sites in Syria connected to Hezbollah's leadership plus the hiding places from the real Hamas leader;
2) Hit Syrian military sites - risking an expansion of the war;
3) Hit Tehran - perhaps even their nuclear development sites;
4) In Gaza, destroy the Hamas leadership - including the elected members of the Palestinian Parliament;
5) In sum, do now what they would have preferred not having to do until later.
Israel Defense Minister - and Labor Party Leader Peretz - said on Sunday that "everywhere I go, Israeli citizens say they wish this didn't have to happen but now that it has, we should go and finish the job." "Finishing the job" is the debate today in Prime Minister Olmert's cabinet. Now, as the role of the United States: yes, President Bush was correct in saying that Israel was invaded and has every right to defend itself. And Secretary Rice was also correct - in geopolitical terms - to call for Israeli "restraint" - even if we privately approve of Israel's aggressive counterstrikes in Lebanon.
This battle is part of the world-wide Radical Muslim jihad against the USA and Israel. The only way to survive is to kill the leaders who ordered these attacks on Israel - and, of course, on the United States on 9/11.
Iraq has proven to be an ongoing disaster, a diversion from the real war we have been in since Nov. 4, 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini's so-called students seized our embassy in Tehran. Since then we have never really fought back.
Then came 9/11. We did indeed take down the Taliban government and scatter the al Qaida leadership into caves and perhaps into Pakistani cities. But we haven't finished the job! Osama lives on - and clearly is the spiritual and operational leader of this world-wide jihad. Meanwhile, we are bogged down in a morass known as Iraq where big shot Iraqis are now being kidnapped daily. Yesterday it was the head of their Olympic Committee; today the head of their biggest oil company; last week a Sunni member of Parliament and her eight-man security team. It never ends. Beheadings, retributions, assassinations, car-bombings, rapes, infiltrations of the Iraqi Army by militiamen loyal to radicals - the whole conflict is a mess we cannot fix.
The sooner we figure out that the Bush/neocon dream of "planting the seed of democracy in the Middle East' was unrealistic and impossible, the better off we will be.
The Arabs are dominated - for a number of reasons - by a barbaric code of (mis)conduct that is not conducive to freedom and democracy. In sum, it ain't gonna happen over there.
It is high time we as a country wake up, pack up and come home. And let the Arabs stew in their own misery.
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