EL's End of the Day Symphony in 3 Movements

Shameless Sophistry...

Sen Harry Reid had something to say on Monday. Something so bold only Democratic Jonestowner's could swallow. He castigated President Bush for failing in Iraq, and insisted Democrats only want to win the Global War on Terror by neutering Iran's nuclear ambitions, reining in North Korea, and bringing Osama to Justice, all the while insisting America help defend Israel who is only trying to defend herself from terrorists thugs. Hugh Hewitt has Reid's incredible statement, and it's quite a hoot. But it's also a dangerous hoot. It's beyond question that Mr. Reid believes his own rhetoric, though 'sophistry' better describes each lying breath and hot, disingenuous exhale.

"We need to do the hard work to put Iran back in the box, and bring stability back to the middle-east... "Together, we can bring some good out of this terrible situation, by finding ways to support the Lebanese government, disarm Hezbollah, and ultimately, contain Iranian power."

As if 'Stability' ever existed in the Middle East.


Dangerous Ignorance...

Isaac Herzog, currently Israel's Minister of Tourism and a member of the Knesset, has an opinion piece in today's online edition of the UK's The Guardian. In 'This is a fight for our survival', Mr. Herzog makes a great case for Israel's reasoning behind the war she is currently levying upon the terrorist organization Hezbollah. Printing out Herzog's statement and the comments that follow would cost you a lot of toner (it was 57 pages when I considered printing earlier this evening) but what I found most startling about the whole thing was not Herzog's reasoning, but rather the lack of reason from 90% of the commentors.

Here are two such comments I wanted to share with the Sane world, to demonstrate just how dangerous our political opposition is. And don't go thinking this is just England, though their venom surprised me quite a bit. This first comment comes from...

jsbachUSA
July 25, 2006 07:05 AM

Mr. Herzog blindly does not see that Israel is already doomed no matter how many people it kills in the mean time. In a few short years the US will implode in decay because of immense internal problems it is ignoring [peak oil, debt, etc.]. Once that occurs, it will be impossible for Israel to sustain a multi-front war against the world for very long. Even the UK that created the problem in the ME by allowing Jewish people to move there will turn its back on Israel. What Israel should do [but is emotionally unable to do] is negotiate a fair peace, now. If Israel offered: [1] give up most of the land and water and moved all its citizens into a much smaller space [2] gave up all its WMD and most of its heavy military hardware [3] Apologize for the extremely bad behavior of their past including admitting the wanton slaughter of thousands of non-Jews [4] generously compensating every Arab that had ever been harmed by Israel [5] making Jerusalem into an international city ... then possibly Israel would continue to exist. As it is now, the path Israel has chosen guarantees that it will cease to exist within 25 years. I do not wish Israel ill, but the clear lesson of history is once it loses its patron, it will go the way of the wind. It is impossible to bludgeon your neighbors into peace. Eventually the power will shift and the neighbors that were mistreated will have their revenge, in spades. I am in the second half of my life and fully expect that Israel will be gone before I am. It will be a pity that so many people let outrageous pride kill them.

Wow, let's be thankful this guy isn't in a position to dictate foreign policy. He's a danger to Israel, the United States, and the world... and quite possibly himself.

Next up are the edited [because I don't want to inject too much venom here] remarks of one...

Crank
July 25, 2006 07:29 AM

What a vulgar, lying little racist. Undoubtedly the most concentrated pack of lies imaginable. It is not Hezbollah that is a terrorist organization, but the Judeofascist state that has terrorised Lebanon since the fifties. Hezbollah grew up in resistance to the Israeli occupation from 1978, when Israel ruled Southern Lebanon is more or less the same manner as the Nazis ruled the conquered regions of the Soviet Union. That is with murder, terror, torture and disappearances... Israel is deliberately targetting civilians and their infrastructure (and, naturally lying through their teeth to deny it) already, so the ethnic cleansing stage is upon us. As for Herzog's guff about a fight for survival, if he thinks anyone but a cretin or a fellow hypocrite will buy the intelligence insulting lie that Israel with its 400 nuclear weapons, thousands of tanks and fighters and the unqualified support of the world's greatest, most murderous terrorist power the USA, is at risk of its survival, then he's a fool to boot. I respect his intelligence enough to conclude that he's simply lying.

This is what you'll find if you choose to peruse the comments, with rarely a statement in defense of Israel. It seems the entire world has chosen to condemn a sovereign nation who has chosen to defend itself against terrorists. But then the world holds themselves to a much different standard than the one they impose upon Israel. The world is filled with hypocrites, and so by extension, is the supremely anti-Jewish United Nations.

Bejamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Prime Minister also published an OpEd on Sunday in the Wall Street Journal's online OpinionJournal, entitled, No Cease-Fire. Remove Hezbollah's missiles--or destroy them; A very articulate and sound argument for crushing Hezbollah, while it may yet be done.


The 'End of the World' Amnesiacs...

Lastly, I found this nugget at News Busters [linked in the sidebar]. Global Warming is the Disaster du Jour it seems. The Great Albert has even managed to whip the masses up into a frothing hysteria... the world, my friends, is doomed if something is not done within the next ten years. That's right, we only have Ten years to avert this global disaster.

Those of you who read this blog regularly will have seen a recent post wherein I refuse, against all reason and scientific data to the contrary, to believe there is such a danger as Global Warming... of the apocalyptic variety.

Well, lo and behold, a mere 32 years ago, Time Magazine tried to whip the masses up into a frothing hysteria over... get this! Global COOLING! That's right, a mere 30 years ago, the world was all but doomed to slip into another ice age. How 'convenient' the truth of this is lost to the Amnesiac Media Elite. Yes, people are dying in droves out in California. Triple-digit temperatures as high as 117-- as of today... 120 in Arizona. But guess what? It get's as hot as 130 and more in northern Africa. Read the original article at News Busters. It reads like this mornings news... in reverse.

Whelp, that's the end of the show, folks... Thanks for listening, and goodnight.