July 18, 2006<\/p>\n
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Upon witnessing the renewed violence in the Middle East as Israel and Hezbollah square off, I\u2019m reminded of Clint Eastwood in the movie Dirty Harry <\/em>when he\u2019s asked how he can be certain that the serial killer he\u2019s pursuing will continue to kill. \u201cBecause he likes it,\u201d Dirty Harry explains.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This, in a nutshell, sums up those in the Middle East. They like–no make that love– violence. Year after year, through cease-fires and civilian withdrawals from various \u201chomelands,\u201d the carnage continues unabated. So, I ask, \u201cWhen are we going to stop wringing our hands and start embracing the death and destruction?\u201d It\u2019s not about statehood or hegemony…it\u2019s about a group of people that are by their very nature violent and clannish and predisposed to gutless killing. It\u2019s ingrained in Arab culture, indeed, it\u2019s ingrained in their very souls.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So let them die, but keep American boys out of the mess. I simply have to laugh when people talk about establishing peace in the Middle East, or anywhere else for that matter. It AIN\u2019T GONNA HAPPEN!!!! EVER!!!! So give it up\u2026let those who want to fight kill each other off and spare me the crocodile tears about the \u201cinnocent civilians.\u201d These \u201cinnocent civilians\u201d are the people shouting in the streets and burning American flags. Let\u2019s kill all them, too. You\u2019d better believe, given the chance, they would kill us. It seems silly to me that civilians are supposed to be somehow sheltered from the violence perpetrated by their various leaders. The sight of dead civilians, to any civilized culture, would be an incentive to cease and desist. Sadly, in the Middle East, there is no such civility—so let the Middle East burn, but keep our boys out of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 18, 2006 Upon witnessing the renewed violence in the Middle East as Israel and Hezbollah square off, I\u2019m reminded of Clint Eastwood in the movie Dirty Harry when he\u2019s asked how he can be certain that the serial killer he\u2019s pursuing will continue to kill. \u201cBecause he likes it,\u201d Dirty Harry explains. … Continue reading To Hell With Hezbollah<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[40,45,44,39,41,43,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}