JEFFREY GOLDBERG IS WRONG: MILITARY FORCE IS EFFECTIVE AGAINST ISLAMO-FASCISM: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS INSTAPUNDIT BY A WEEK, AND GERECHT, TOO

What's at Instapundit today:

HOW TO TURN RADICALS INTO MODERATES. [LINKS TO GOLDBERG CITING GERECHT'S COUNTER-ARGUMENT.] Hey, it worked with the Germans.

Posted at 1:28 pm by Glenn Reynolds

From Gerecht's counter-argument:

Actually, Islamic history teaches just the opposite. If you start with the Kharijites and move forward (and I can happily give you a list running from the Azariqa, the worst of the Khawarij, who very much resemble the most radical of the Sunnis today, to the 7ners, to the Qizilbash--my all-time favorites, to the Mahdists, to the Iranian death-wish believers of the Iran-Iraq war), it is military defeat that produces the fatigue and the spiritual deflation that leads to acquiescence (and, sometimes, reflection).

Well, we posted this at The Astute Bloggers last week: NYTIMES OP-ED BY JEFFREY GOLDBERG IS WRONG; THE IDF CAN DEFEAT HAMAS

NYT OP-ED - BY JEFFREY GOLDBERG: Why Israel Can’t Make Peace With Hamas

"... tanks cannot defeat deeply felt belief.

...Hamas cannot be cajoled into moderation.

Neither position credits Hamas with sincerity, or seriousness.

The only small chance for peace today is the same chance that existed before the Gaza invasion: The moderate Arab states, Europe, the United States and, mainly, Israel, must help Hamas’s enemy, Fatah, prepare the West Bank for real freedom, and then hope that the people of Gaza, vast numbers of whom are unsympathetic to Hamas, see the West Bank as an alternative to the squalid vision of Hassan Nasrallah and Nizar Rayyan "

WRONG.

• HAMAS AND OTHER ISLAMOFASCISTS THINK THAT ALLAH DECIDES THE OUTCOMES ON THE BATTLEFIELD.

• IF THEY LOSE, THEN THEY MUST QUESTION THEMSELVES - OR DARE TO QUESTION ALLAH.

• SO, AN IDF MILITARY VICTORY CAN CHANGE THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF THE ENEMY.

• IT CAN MAKE THEM DOUBT THE FIDELITY OF THEIR CAUSE TO GOD.

We scooped both Gerecht and Glenn Reynolds in correcting Jeffrey Goldberg's NYT OP-ED.

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