Comments on: End-of-the-Year Carnage & Absurdity in Gaza http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/12/29/end-of-the-year-carnage-absurdity-in-gaza/ Author James Bovard Mon, 21 May 2012 16:34:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Marc http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/12/29/end-of-the-year-carnage-absurdity-in-gaza/#comment-119596 Marc Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:30:48 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=637#comment-119596 In regard to the previous comment, their "enablers treasury", or what can more accurately be described as credit issued from China and future generations of American tax Helots, will take a major hit when the dollar loses its reserve currency status. Many experts consider that dire and well deserved event a near term probability. I suspect that some additional printing presses will be needed if it occurs. In regard to the previous comment, their “enablers treasury”, or what can more accurately be described as credit issued from China and future generations of American tax Helots, will take a major hit when the dollar loses its reserve currency status. Many experts consider that dire and well deserved event a near term probability. I suspect that some additional printing presses will be needed if it occurs.

]]> By: W Baker http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/12/29/end-of-the-year-carnage-absurdity-in-gaza/#comment-119594 W Baker Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:54:18 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=637#comment-119594 Like has been said above, the Israelis are on their last legs. They are outnumbered and losing their population position by geometrical proportions. They don't have the tenacity to stay on a god-forsaken spit of land when their enablers' treasuries in the West dry up. All they can easily do is kill rock throwing, disenfranchised kids and teenagers whose peers will surely follow suit. When's the last time these brutes actually won a tactical battle anyway? 1982 in Lebanon? And look at what they gained... Like has been said above, the Israelis are on their last legs. They are outnumbered and losing their population position by geometrical proportions. They don’t have the tenacity to stay on a god-forsaken spit of land when their enablers’ treasuries in the West dry up. All they can easily do is kill rock throwing, disenfranchised kids and teenagers whose peers will surely follow suit. When’s the last time these brutes actually won a tactical battle anyway? 1982 in Lebanon? And look at what they gained…

]]> By: Original Steve http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/12/29/end-of-the-year-carnage-absurdity-in-gaza/#comment-119593 Original Steve Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:26:35 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=637#comment-119593 Happy New Year, Jim As usual, your words are wise. You can bet that when this thing is finished, nothing will be resolved. Happy New Year, Jim

As usual, your words are wise. You can bet that when this thing is finished, nothing will be resolved.

]]> By: alpowolf http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/12/29/end-of-the-year-carnage-absurdity-in-gaza/#comment-119592 alpowolf Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:00:48 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=637#comment-119592 Jeez. Again, staying in cold-blooded mode (so they can understand) why don't they think past the next election? Sure, they'll win seats--then what? Look at the dung heap they're creating for themselves. For example, your example of LBJ and Vietnam. And people expect us to get involved in this? Jeez.

Again, staying in cold-blooded mode (so they can understand) why don’t they think past the next election? Sure, they’ll win seats–then what? Look at the dung heap they’re creating for themselves. For example, your example of LBJ and Vietnam.

And people expect us to get involved in this?

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/12/29/end-of-the-year-carnage-absurdity-in-gaza/#comment-119591 Jim Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:05:02 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=637#comment-119591 Here's the start of a column by Israeli Ran HaCohen on the political profits of the Gaza carnage: Defense Minister Ehud Barak (the Hebrew surname means "lightning," German "Blitz") did it again: a historic record of over 200 Palestinians killed in a single Sabbath's blitz (Dec. 27). Polls now predict five additional Knesset seats for his Labor Party in the coming February general election. That's 40 Palestinian corpses per seat. No wonder he promises it's just the beginning: at this pace, it will take Labor just about two thousand additional corpses to go from rags to riches, from a dead political party to an absolute majority in parliament like in the good old days. http://antiwar.com/hacohen/ *** Looks like the Israeli leaders are following the same logic that LBJ used in 1964, clobbering North Vietnam to boost his election prospects against Barry Goldwater. Here’s the start of a column by Israeli Ran HaCohen on the political profits of the Gaza carnage:

Defense Minister Ehud Barak (the Hebrew surname means “lightning,” German “Blitz”) did it again: a historic record of over 200 Palestinians killed in a single Sabbath’s blitz (Dec. 27). Polls now predict five additional Knesset seats for his Labor Party in the coming February general election. That’s 40 Palestinian corpses per seat. No wonder he promises it’s just the beginning: at this pace, it will take Labor just about two thousand additional corpses to go from rags to riches, from a dead political party to an absolute majority in parliament like in the good old days.
http://antiwar.com/hacohen/
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Looks like the Israeli leaders are following the same logic that LBJ used in 1964, clobbering North Vietnam to boost his election prospects against Barry Goldwater.

]]> By: alpowolf http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/12/29/end-of-the-year-carnage-absurdity-in-gaza/#comment-119590 alpowolf Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:57:13 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=637#comment-119590 Even overlooking the immorality of it (which is overlooking one hell of a lot), I don't see how this works from either a tactical or strategic viewpoint. Using high-dollar munitions to chase rockets slapped together in muffler shops strikes me as futile and wasteful, and losing the moral high ground is the best way to lose against an insurgency. So I'm wondering what the hell the Israeli government is thinking. I've read that this may be for the sake of upcoming elections, but yikes. Even overlooking the immorality of it (which is overlooking one hell of a lot), I don’t see how this works from either a tactical or strategic viewpoint. Using high-dollar munitions to chase rockets slapped together in muffler shops strikes me as futile and wasteful, and losing the moral high ground is the best way to lose against an insurgency.

So I’m wondering what the hell the Israeli government is thinking. I’ve read that this may be for the sake of upcoming elections, but yikes.

]]> By: Jean http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/12/29/end-of-the-year-carnage-absurdity-in-gaza/#comment-119589 Jean Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:17:41 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=637#comment-119589 This is the same lapdog media that reported that Russia attacked Georgia, when the rest of the world knows it was the other way around. Why should we not be surprised about this. Indeed, it will be Israel who will suffer because of the empire we have. Most if not all her neighbors will turn on her sometime down the road. This will only expidite if Iran is attacked, which to me still is a possibility since the situation know has very similiar characteristics of what happened when Hoover was next followed by FDR. This is the same lapdog media that reported that Russia attacked Georgia, when the rest of the world knows it was the other way around. Why should we not be surprised about this.
Indeed, it will be Israel who will suffer because of the empire we have. Most if not all her neighbors will turn on her sometime down the road. This will only expidite if Iran is attacked, which to me still is a possibility since the situation know has very similiar characteristics of what happened when Hoover was next followed by FDR.

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/12/29/end-of-the-year-carnage-absurdity-in-gaza/#comment-119588 Jim Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:48:53 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=637#comment-119588 Dirk - the printing presses might lock up??? Holy shizam, folks might have to find and rely on honest money in such a case. Dirk - the printing presses might lock up???

Holy shizam, folks might have to find and rely on honest money in such a case.

]]> By: Dirk W. Sabin http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/12/29/end-of-the-year-carnage-absurdity-in-gaza/#comment-119587 Dirk W. Sabin Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:20:01 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=637#comment-119587 There is "hating America" and then there is hating this thing that likes to say it is America while acting like a mongrel of all the worst and most ineptly run empires in history. The type that were on top for a couple generations and so lost the burn in its gut and thought it could beat the grim reaper with printed money and mercenaries. This is the imposter we hate now....the real America still exists but somebody has it duct taped in the basement of some abandoned factory out by the abandoned train tracks....to far from any Target Store for anybody to notice. Nice job on comparing the Gazan farrago with the Injuns......the difference here is that the numbers game was over for the American Indian and in the Palestinian Territories as well as Israel, the numbers game is now over for the Israelis. Watch as their media pit bulls ratchet up their rhetoric as the Israelis burn down the Middle East to prove the Old Testament was right and that the little population issue is a minor point. Unless the poll besotted leadership of the lapsed-Republic comes to its senses and recalls that powerful thing called Liberty...the thing that once sustained us, the going from here on out is going to go from bad to worse , particularly when the printing presses lock up. But....Happy New Year Ladies and Gents! There is “hating America” and then there is hating this thing that likes to say it is America while acting like a mongrel of all the worst and most ineptly run empires in history. The type that were on top for a couple generations and so lost the burn in its gut and thought it could beat the grim reaper with printed money and mercenaries. This is the imposter we hate now….the real America still exists but somebody has it duct taped in the basement of some abandoned factory out by the abandoned train tracks….to far from any Target Store for anybody to notice.

Nice job on comparing the Gazan farrago with the Injuns……the difference here is that the numbers game was over for the American Indian and in the Palestinian Territories as well as Israel, the numbers game is now over for the Israelis. Watch as their media pit bulls ratchet up their rhetoric as the Israelis burn down the Middle East to prove the Old Testament was right and that the little population issue is a minor point.

Unless the poll besotted leadership of the lapsed-Republic comes to its senses and recalls that powerful thing called Liberty…the thing that once sustained us, the going from here on out is going to go from bad to worse , particularly when the printing presses lock up.

But….Happy New Year Ladies and Gents!

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/12/29/end-of-the-year-carnage-absurdity-in-gaza/#comment-119586 Jim Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:58:10 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=637#comment-119586 Well, judge, I admit - it's been a long time since I recited the 12 Boy Scout laws about being loyal and obedient. Well, judge, I admit - it’s been a long time since I recited the 12 Boy Scout laws about being loyal and obedient.

]]> By: The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/12/29/end-of-the-year-carnage-absurdity-in-gaza/#comment-119585 The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:53:47 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=637#comment-119585 "Blasting the hell out of an overcrowded prison-like slab of land that has no anti-aircraft defenses? This is the New Macho??" Of course it is. You don't want them (or Americans) to actually have to fight somebody who might shoot back, do you? Good Guys™ could get killed doing that! It's much safer to kick the snot out of crappy little countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza, Belgium, and so on than it is to take on the varsity! So. How long have you hated America? :D “Blasting the hell out of an overcrowded prison-like slab of land that has no anti-aircraft defenses? This is the New Macho??”

Of course it is. You don’t want them (or Americans) to actually have to fight somebody who might shoot back, do you? Good Guys™ could get killed doing that! It’s much safer to kick the snot out of crappy little countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza, Belgium, and so on than it is to take on the varsity!

So. How long have you hated America? :D

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