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Thread ID: 6206 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2003-04-17
2003-04-17 03:12 | User Profile
[color=purple]King of the Pig People Podhoretz must be drunk on that concord-grape swill his tribe slurps down this time of year; this particular column makes it painfully clear that he and his kind are not only working from an advance copy of the script, they're dictating it, daily, to the Administration.
As you log on to this thread to rip him a well-deserved second zyklon-hole, turn on the news and be reminded that this guy has more say in determining the direction of your country than all of us combined. He's determined that x amount of Syrians must die to establish Israeli supremacy over the region for good? Then that's what's probably going to happen. And there are hundreds of thousands - millions - of goyishe pod-people, on and off FR, determined to lash themselves to the wheel of Jewish Truth to the point of Krazy-Glueing the scales over their eyes- that they may behold nothing to shatter the simplicity of their illusion. Kinda makes you wish those 'moderate voices' who are going to win us those millions of converts by-and-by would put a little openly anti-Semitic giddyup in their invective, huh? [/color]
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April 15, 2003 -- THE question on everybody's lips yesterday was: Is Syria next?
The answer: Syria is indeed next. It will be the next Arab country to change radically.
That doesn't mean American forces will march on Damascus, or that U.S. smart bombs will rain down on Syrian military positions near the Golan Heights - that is, unless Syria acts in ways that seriously endanger or cost the lives of coalition forces in Iraq.
Under those circumstances, the United States would be compelled and justified to take action to ensure Syrian docility as Iraq reestablishes itself post-Saddam.
The harsh words spoken these past few days by President Bush and others are intended to warn Syrian dictator Bashar Assad: If you continue to act against the coalition, you will pay.
The verbal targeting of Syria is systematic and administration-wide. It began with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld last week. Then the president spoke over the weekend. Yesterday, Secretary of State Colin Powell took a shot as well, warning of sanctions or worse: "We will examine possible measures of a diplomatic, economic or other nature as we move forward."
Some suggest that the administration's harsh words are reckless. They are the opposite - prudent and preventive.
Syria has been behaving very badly indeed in the past week. The administration is concerned and angry. Assad and his cronies have taken in at least two senior Iraqi officials responsible for chemical-weapons programs and have sent buses filled with wannabe suicide fighters across the border.
If Assad gets the message that we will not stand for his interference, and that we will make him pay for interfering, then there will be a cold peace on the Iraq-Syria border. That's what we want. **It's what's best for our troops, and it's best for the peoples of both countries as well. **
But the warnings to Syria have a deeper and more significant purpose. They indicate that Syria will be expected to comply with the set of standards for international conduct that govern other nations.
**The standards are not very complicated. Syria may not host, harbor or shield Iraqi war criminals. Syria may neither develop nor possess weapons of mass destruction - no matter whether those weapons have been manufactured by the Damascus government or handed over surreptitiously by Iraq. Syria may not harbor, sponsor nor cooperate with terrorist groups. **
This is, to put it mildly, a tall order for Syria. Syria's entire foreign policy is based on terrorism. Its confrontation with Israel these days is played out through its direct sponsorship of Hezbollah, the terror monsters who control the Israeli-Lebanese border. Syria controls Lebanon. Hezbollah is there, facing down the Israelis, because Syria likes it like that.
Those who hope for a deal between Israel and the Palestinians should hope that Assad has gotten the message. Because, without peace on Israel's northern border and a cessation of terrorist attacks, there will be no such deal.
It will be the responsibility of the Palestinian Authority's new prime minister, Abu Mazen, to control Palestinian assaults inside Israel. If he is serious about changing Palestinian culture, Abu Mazen can bring his people a long way. But if the Syrians (and the Iranians as well, who deserve their own column) don't cut off the Palestinian terror groups operating under their control, Abu Mazen will be unable to achieve the change that can bring about a Palestinian state.
Syria has no interest in a realistic Palestinian state, one living side by side with Israel. Syria wants a Palestine in place of Israel - or failing that, a Palestinian people living in perpetual statelessness whose plight can be used to distract Arab popular opinion and keep the pressure for change off the dictators and theocrats.
The need for change on Syria's part is manifest. The administration is trying to ensure that the change comes about peacefully. Syria might be tempted to harness some of the anti-American hysteria in the Middle East by redirecting some of Hezbollah's bloody attacks away from Israel and toward Americans in Iraq. Those attacks could go on for years unless Syria gets the message that such actions will incur profound costs.
If it works, **it will be a powerful demonstration of the way the just application of military force can be used to achieve peaceful means later on. **
If it doesn't work, if terrorist attacks are launched against Americans from Syrian soil and on Israelis from Lebanese soil, then America will have to respond militarily. Not with a full-scale invasion. **But we all know now what a smart bomb can do. **
And no one will be able to say Bashar Assad wasn't warned.
E-mail: podhoretz@nypost.com
2003-04-18 03:23 | User Profile
Aaaarrrrggghhh...Podwhoretz's article is vile enough, but didja have to post his ugly, smirking face? :o
2003-04-18 03:27 | User Profile
Yes.
2003-04-18 15:06 | User Profile
If a being could make Norman sound eloquent by contrast, it would have to be Pig Poddy the Whore-Monger, offspring of the elder. Fat, greasy, hairy, sweaty, arrogant. A disgusting Jew with a disgusting view. I sometimes read the neo-con articles to strengthen my ever-expanding skepticism of their nefariousness, but this jerk is so over the top, so predictable and so revolting that it's just bad for my blood pressure to even bother. That this guy has a forum - a low-rent New York City tabloid given to using "$$$" in headlines, but a forum nevertheless - is a crime against White America.
2003-04-19 04:21 | User Profile
[img]http://www.nationalreview.com/images/page_2001_wknd_podhoretz-print.gif[/img] Large festering sore on the buttock of humanity. Needs to be incised or the patient wonââ¬â¢t survive.
2003-04-20 02:54 | User Profile
Regarding the issue of who gives orders and who follows, Iââ¬â¢m inclined to agree with the position of the folks at FAEM. Proximity to wealth and means to effect aims is true indicia of power. The Chosenites here care not in the slightest for Israel except as symbolic value to keep the goyim financially and emotionally invested in its welfare and citizenry, regardless of their actual place of residence. As Truman reportedly said after the founding of the state: ââ¬ÅBut theyââ¬â¢re all still here.ââ¬Â And they always will be, short of America going NS and even then Israel would not be their preferred destination.
Whatever the case, there is no real disagreement between ranking Jews and Gentile elites on what the next step should be. Their goals are congruent, albeit for different reasons, and Syria seems ripe for picking. IP means to dispatch any perceived (real or manufactured) threat to Israel and solidify its power base in Washington via further demonstrations of their persuasive talents; industrialists of all stripes and genome wish to force-open markets to foster usury and gain control of more resources; and military hardware manufacturers will eagerly subscribe to ventures necessitating further field-testing of their novelties. No question that having the right Simian in the White House is key. Realistically, I doubt that Al Iââ¬â¢ll-wear-Eartly-tones-today-because-female-consultant-said-it-will-resonate-with-male-voters Gore would have had the gonads (or epilepsy) to go to Iraq. You just donââ¬â¢t get a better marionette than George II, which is why theyââ¬â¢ll make the most use of him they can in the one-and-a-half years he has left. The real challenge will come in conditioning the masses to accept another campaign so blatantly contradictory to their interests. Schooling takes time and, frankly, with Junior sitting at 20 points below what daddy had during his heyday, I donââ¬â¢t think that is time they have. Engineering another 9-11, a condition following which anything is doable, is a prerequisite if they wish to hold the home front.
If Iââ¬â¢m wrong, it will only mean that I have yet again underestimated the American capacity for self-delusion and subservience.