In the last 20 or so years, I have found there are certain groups that are quite useful. They reliably get thing wrong, support causes that will actively damage or destroy society, or advocate acts which range from unethical to frankly evil.
These groups are not all of the left, but that is the way to bet. One of the most useful groups lives here. They are reliably wrong.
Opposing them demonstrates that you both understand reality and have a sound ethical sense. Cam has hit the issue with the cluebat, and his comments are worthy of further distribution. Concerning Isreal:
Never underestimate Israel’s resolve.
What hand-wringing liberals always forget is that Hamas has as one of its core beliefs the complete destruction if Israel. The hand-wringer idiots also forget that bar Egypt every other Arab and Islamic nation in the region wants to utterly destroy Israel and wipe it off the map. Israel must have the resolve to survive otherwise they die. Nothing concentrates resolve like the prospect of annihilation. As a result of this resolve they also have a world class arms industry because they know that there is no-one who will ever lay down their lives for them any better than themselves. They are better armed, better supplied and better trained than any army in the world including the Americans.
Never think they are bluffing.
The Israelis never bluff. They tell you what they want, they expect you to comply and if you don’t then you get a smack. Those are the rules, they tell you up front, expect nothing less than what they promise.
Never think they have a sense of humour.
Israel and in particular doesn’t have a sense of humour. 6 million dead at the hands of Nazis tends to do that to you. They are under no delusions that the world hates them and as such they are humourless when it comes to defence of their land.Anyone or any nation that doesn’t follow those 3 simple N-rules is going to get hurt.
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As the Stan would put it, “Nuff said
