Hammass is where it is due to an election in Gaza. Now it has power to crush its rival Fatah. What Hammass should realize is that so-called Palestinians have been the stooges of Egypt, Saudi, and Syria, and that you can find no stronger ethnic resentment of “Palestinian” Arabs than by their “neighbors” (Egypt, Saudi, Syria, etc).
Withdrawl from Gaza came with the mandate for elections, and now that election has produced this subsequent slaughter of its own people, now considered “collaborators” by these neo-nazi hammass killers. Fatah comprises what remained of Araphats PLO, which brought ethnic cleansing to Lebanon in the 70′s, and to places such as Bethlehem in recent times.
The left says democracy doesn’t work in muslim lands. or does it?
This puts paid to the notion of any “Dar as- Salaam or a “house of peace” in the event that there is no longer any form of polytheism (Hindu, for example), or heretic monotheisms (Christianity, Judaism, or Bhuddism): because they will then start, as this and numerous examples demonstrate, that they will just start fighting each other, over anything, ethnic differences, you name it.
And can you imagine the inevitable showdown between shia (considered to be polytheism by our sunni fiends) and sunni?
Shia, as a dominant force seems confined to Iran, but that is still pretty substantial real estate. They probably see themselves as the one all hemmed in, the victims of oppression.
On the other hand, in multi-ethnic Iraq, a shia (arab) majority is very much committed to the nation of Iraq, and its representative government. Iraqis have lived with, not only fellow Iraqis who have practised Christianity (Assyrian and Chaldean) but even Jews for centuries. Only foreign interlopers in AlQueda have killed Christians or bombed churches in Iraq since Saddams disposal. Iraqi muslims gathered in Christian churches sitting in pews where their neighbors once worshipped, who fled following al Zarkawi’s slaughter of christians in Iraq, as a sign of solidarity with neighbors who practised another faith. In hopes that they would return to the homeland they had fled. Christmas was celebrated there last December. Women wore make-up.
Oh, but remember, Democratic institutions don’t work, except perhaps now in multi-ethnic Iraq.
And as to the Battle of Manila. I never knew about it until I watched a program on television about it; they put the slaughter total at 150,000 Manillans killed. I have never forgotten it.
The japanese commander of Manilla was ordered to abandon Manilla, and retreat back to mainland with men and materiel, before the anticipated land invasion by allied forces. He disobeyed his orders, and instead ordered mass killing of all Manillans.
The Japanese also floated weather balloons of biological weapons onto the west coast that made it successfully to a farm in Oregon that killed an entire family. They had a nuclear weapons capacity in 1945. They perfected their chem-bio weapons on Chinese slaves.
President Truman was reluctant to use nuclear weapons on Japan, but these events, plus the sinking of the Indianapolis, amounted to the last straw for this all too human Commander in Chief, whose patience had been pushed just too, too far. THAT is the context of his actions,
Its not unlike Holland in 1940, when they surrendered to Hitlers National Socialists, only then to have the Wehrmacht rain down blitzkrieg (after having surrendered to Nazis) on Rotterdam, killing at least 40,000, to serve as a dress rehearsal for Planned blitzkrieg elsewhere.
Millions were killed that needn’t have been, all because peace initiatives with Hitler were pursued, and military defense abandoned following the first world war, and the fact that Wilson created the “League of Nations” instead of facing the logical extension of U.S. involvement in WW1, namely, god forbid!, !occupation! of militaristic Germany.
President Roosevelts foreign policy vis-a-vis Japan and Germany, as I recall, after 1941, was unconditional surrender, not “negotiation”.
After the second world war, we occupied Germany and Japan until the present day, and at least stopped the advance of Stalins interNational socialism until Carter sent them the sign of weakness and they broke the Warsaw pact and invaded Afghanistan.
Carters weakness and Soviet gambling gave us the mess we are cleaning up today.
I am not happy or proud, of the lives lost at Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. But who, but a Hitler or a Tojo, or an alZakawri would be proud of war? The Japanese had every opportunity to SUE FOR PEACE (and don’t let anyone tell you differently), and their answer was slaughter of 150,000 in Manilla, not with nukes, but with knives, bayonnets, swords, and bullets (your more basic bushida), and their god promised them that Japanese mainland would be a cemetery for Allied soldiers.
I am Happy and Proud, of the lives, both Japanese and Allied (American, Australian, et very much cetera), spared by Trumans decisive action. THAT is the context of his decision.
The question is, are we fighting a war against a Nazi Germany, or an Imperial Japan, where the soldiers involved, at least have enough self respect, to wear the uniform of their nation, and not disqualify themselves from Geneva convention rules, or are we dealing with the nihilistic philosophy of Anarchy, which believes no “change” can begin until the utter and complete collapse of any and all social order takes place?
I would remind us that, all four of the assassinations of our Presidents, were by anarchists, with the intent of producing anarchy, whether they succeeded or not.
And if we are dealing with anarchy, then those who deliberately disobey, and therefore disqualify themselves from the benefits of the RULES of the Geneva convention, with the single objective of being showered with those very benefits they violate ( created to protect soldiers who wear their country’s uniform and insignia) , are creating the anarchy (i.e. collapse of any and all social order, individuals be damed) they seek. [see: chaos theory]. Anarchy is its own reward, if it self perpetuates itself through what we are seeing now. Islamic “terror” organizations need not even engage in acts of terror for the moment, they can sit back and watch as we destroy ourselves with “Hope and Change” power grabs by a party long ago given over to the very nihilism (not to mention the narcissism) on which anarchy depends and on which it thrives.
If we agree that this is Anarchy, then all bets are off, no matter what any judge may decree, and 0bama, or Eric Holder, or whoever, better get this message, and act appropriately, as courts are seeking their own power grab, with only disasterous consequences to follow.
