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Thursday, July 27, 2006

THE ROOT CAUSE OF OUR CURRENT PROBLEMS IN IRAQ, LEBANON AND GAZA: FAILURE TO DEMAND DISARMAMENT OF THE JIHADOTHUGS

Before Hamas or Hizballah or or Moki al Sadr's political parties (political "wings" if you prefer) were allowed on the ballots - in their respective countries - they should have all been disarmed. And if they failed to disarm, then they should NOT have been allowed on the ballot.

I think this would have prevented any of these parties from gaining political power - as they did when they each won many MANY seats in their respective parliaments. It has allowed them cover, and to play a dangerous double game.

Besides: These jihadoterrorist groups are fundamentally anti-democratic. I blame Bush.

EVENING UPDATE: OTTOLENGHI AT NRO AGREES:
The current conflict in Lebanon proves that violent extremist groups cannot be constructively engaged. Rather, extremism must be confronted with a firm policy of zero tolerance. ...

Both at home and abroad, history proves that engaging extremists doesn’t pay, unless extremists give up their extreme goals first. Whenever radical political parties espousing extreme ideologies have been allowed to maintain a militia of their own, they have not used it for democratic and peaceful means. Instead they have challenged the state’s central authority and pursued their own revolutionary agenda. Whenever extremists have been co-opted, they have brought their extremism into government and ended up hijacking the political process for their own nefarious ends. ...

Unless Hezbollah is disarmed and U.N. resolution 1559 is fully implemented, Lebanon is destined to plunge back into its dark past of civil war, sectarian violence, foreign occupation, and terrorism. Its efforts to rebuild and turn itself into an oasis of relative quiet and prosperity in the midst of a troubled region will come to naught.
RIGHT ON!

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