Lawrence of Iraq?
Anyone who is familiar with Sir David Lean’s 1963 masterpiece “Lawrence of Arabia” must have experienced a moment of what Yogi Berra called “déjà vu all over again” when they watched the brawl in the so-called Hamas parliament last week.
Lean’s epic biography of T.E. Lawrence coincidentally explains Winston Churchill’s remark to FDR at Yalta, [paraphrased here] that “Arabs can’t fight…ignore them.” The internecine brawling at the end of the movie was eerily replayed in real life on last week's news.
We can’t ignore jihadists these days, but we can consider their viability as a conventional fighting force. They aren’t worth the $20 million smuggled in the suitcase. Hamas isn’t worthy of the title of “People’s Army.” Exactly what people do they represent? Displaced Arabs? A little friendship goes a long way. The Jews are not going to go to away. Y’all started off in the 1940s with a decent coalition. Everybody was going to get along, and Israel would be as multi-cultural as America. What happened?
I am fond of bitching and playing my disability card. I am a step behind, so sniveling works. Wheelchairs get boarded first. This apparently works with a whole race of people; American blacks or Arabs.
Lawrence had a grand vision of unified Arabs, who could conduct a civil government as well as wage war on the Ottoman Empire. That vision died with him on the motorcycle. He was as marginalized as Ted Kennedy by then, and knew it. All he had left was life’s small pleasures, and he drank deeply of them. There are few things as gratifying as running a vehicle up to 110; car or motorcycle. I had my Corvette, people have their Harleys. Lawrence published The Seven Pillars of Wisdom privately, because it contained the details of his torture at the hands of the Turks. It only became a public property when great parts of the factual material were incorporated into the movie.
It ain’t about how fast you can go. Moving fast is one thing. Building a stable society is a whole ‘nother six-pack of possums. The Brits knew what they were about when they let the Arab tribes dissolve into their fussing and fighting. The war on terrorists moves fast, so should we. Nation building in places like Iraq is fine; we should do so after the fact. There are people who need killing, and while I don’t agree with the Murtha/Kerry "Usual Suspects" bunch, “terrorism” isn’t a nation-state like Iraq that can be invaded, and I say “Charlie Mike” for “continue mission”; we jumped, now clean it up. Eat what you killed. Then go out and kill some more. It’s easy for a wheelie to be bloodthirsty, and lefties throw bombs at chairborne commandos; get me within 1000 meters with my Remington, and hide somewhere. I have the solution for terror, and it’s pretty darn simple. A chair makes for a very stable aiming platform.
Israel will always remain. They bend over backwards to accommodate the Arabs. Then they launch air strikes. I used to say “a pox on both your houses”, because they had become the thing they abhorred; Nazis bulldozing houses. Then comes the intifada and the rock-throwing. Oh, yeah, and the missiles and the roadside IEDs so publicity was seen against "da Joos" every time they launch a retaliatory strike. Hamas starts wiring up mentally-retarded 14-year-old kids with belt bombs. Okay. Nobody has the moral high ground. Be nice, but always know how many rounds are in the magazine of your pistol. Ted Roosevelt called it “The Big Stick”. Cigar-chomping Curtis LeMay called it “common sense.” I don't think Israel will ever find peace with its Arab neighbors, no matter what concessions they make. However, I expect Israel to survive. When those folks say "Never again!", they mean it.
Israel’s “fence” is working, and I am on record calling for harsher measures, like automated machine gun nests, along our southern border in the US.
The world will devolve into nuclear holocaust. Please remember that you read it first here. Iraq, an invention of the Brits, is now free. They will make of it what they want. The dream of Lawrence is fulfilled; the tribes are still squabbling. May he rest in peace along that road from Bovington to Cloud Hill.
Lean’s epic biography of T.E. Lawrence coincidentally explains Winston Churchill’s remark to FDR at Yalta, [paraphrased here] that “Arabs can’t fight…ignore them.” The internecine brawling at the end of the movie was eerily replayed in real life on last week's news.
We can’t ignore jihadists these days, but we can consider their viability as a conventional fighting force. They aren’t worth the $20 million smuggled in the suitcase. Hamas isn’t worthy of the title of “People’s Army.” Exactly what people do they represent? Displaced Arabs? A little friendship goes a long way. The Jews are not going to go to away. Y’all started off in the 1940s with a decent coalition. Everybody was going to get along, and Israel would be as multi-cultural as America. What happened?
I am fond of bitching and playing my disability card. I am a step behind, so sniveling works. Wheelchairs get boarded first. This apparently works with a whole race of people; American blacks or Arabs.
Lawrence had a grand vision of unified Arabs, who could conduct a civil government as well as wage war on the Ottoman Empire. That vision died with him on the motorcycle. He was as marginalized as Ted Kennedy by then, and knew it. All he had left was life’s small pleasures, and he drank deeply of them. There are few things as gratifying as running a vehicle up to 110; car or motorcycle. I had my Corvette, people have their Harleys. Lawrence published The Seven Pillars of Wisdom privately, because it contained the details of his torture at the hands of the Turks. It only became a public property when great parts of the factual material were incorporated into the movie.
It ain’t about how fast you can go. Moving fast is one thing. Building a stable society is a whole ‘nother six-pack of possums. The Brits knew what they were about when they let the Arab tribes dissolve into their fussing and fighting. The war on terrorists moves fast, so should we. Nation building in places like Iraq is fine; we should do so after the fact. There are people who need killing, and while I don’t agree with the Murtha/Kerry "Usual Suspects" bunch, “terrorism” isn’t a nation-state like Iraq that can be invaded, and I say “Charlie Mike” for “continue mission”; we jumped, now clean it up. Eat what you killed. Then go out and kill some more. It’s easy for a wheelie to be bloodthirsty, and lefties throw bombs at chairborne commandos; get me within 1000 meters with my Remington, and hide somewhere. I have the solution for terror, and it’s pretty darn simple. A chair makes for a very stable aiming platform.
Israel will always remain. They bend over backwards to accommodate the Arabs. Then they launch air strikes. I used to say “a pox on both your houses”, because they had become the thing they abhorred; Nazis bulldozing houses. Then comes the intifada and the rock-throwing. Oh, yeah, and the missiles and the roadside IEDs so publicity was seen against "da Joos" every time they launch a retaliatory strike. Hamas starts wiring up mentally-retarded 14-year-old kids with belt bombs. Okay. Nobody has the moral high ground. Be nice, but always know how many rounds are in the magazine of your pistol. Ted Roosevelt called it “The Big Stick”. Cigar-chomping Curtis LeMay called it “common sense.” I don't think Israel will ever find peace with its Arab neighbors, no matter what concessions they make. However, I expect Israel to survive. When those folks say "Never again!", they mean it.
Israel’s “fence” is working, and I am on record calling for harsher measures, like automated machine gun nests, along our southern border in the US.
The world will devolve into nuclear holocaust. Please remember that you read it first here. Iraq, an invention of the Brits, is now free. They will make of it what they want. The dream of Lawrence is fulfilled; the tribes are still squabbling. May he rest in peace along that road from Bovington to Cloud Hill.
posted by Robert at 9:56 AM
2 Comments:
Basically, I agree with what you say about Israel. The problem is the same thing haunting the USA ,this insane liberal guilt trip.
Jews have always tended toward this a little . They work hard ,learn all they can ,do well ,then feel guilty because they have more then others. So they alway try to help out others ,which works very well when they are helping other Jews,but not so well when they pick a bunch with the "Entitlement Mentality." And that sure fits the Palis,and a lot of black people. Way before any Kennedys were marching with the blacks ,the Jews were there.
At some point they have to stop and say " Enough, we have done everything we can to get along with the Arabs and Muslims ,and all it has gotten us is grief and death. " They need to tack up a picture of Hitler and just look at it.
There is no way to keep the genie in the bottle, so-as long as we have fanatical jihadis, willing to kill and die for their vision of an Islamist World Gubmint-we must live with the threat of a nuclear exchange. This threat is far more dangerous than that of the cold war because these folks want to die!
But then again, maybe Mother Sheehan can bring the world together for a rousing chorus of Kumbaya and it will all pass in peace.
On that happy note...
Happy Father's Day, Possum!
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