When History is Rewritten, Look Out

[mystery-ak]

November 1, 2023
When History is Rewritten, Look Out
By Allan J. Feifer

If I were to describe Iran's hostage crisis, a reader might think I was writing about the 1979 incident when Iran held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days during the Carter administration.

But I am writing about the current hostage crisis!

Over the years, Iran has taken thousands of hostages.  They have learned that hostages create leverage at little cost.  Taking hostages is a form of asymmetric warfare.

Sadly, we have not figured out how to respond.  Americans have lost confidence in America's ability to protect them.

We operate under a changed military doctrine, which finds us fighting today's war with yesterday's tactics.  Today's war is for truth itself, and we are losing badly.

Crowds of people fight from the opposite sides of our streets.  They battle us in our houses of worship, our universities, and even in the halls of Congress. 

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[DefiantMassRINO]

I'm the type of S.O.B. that would presume the hostages are already dead, or, shoot the hostages first to deny terrorists the value they hope the hostages will offer.

Ask yourself, what would Stalin do?  Stalin was probably wone of the most purely political creatures to walk the Earth.  At Stalingrad and Leningrad he gave Russians a choice ... to be shot by the fighting Germans, or to be shot by the Russians if they retreated.

If you value hostages you play into terrorist hands.  Shoot the hostages first, then the terrorists.

If Hamas wants a war of elimination, let's give it to them like we did in Dresden, Tokyo, Nagasaki, and Hiroshima.

[GtHawk]

I'm the type of S.O.B. that would presume the hostages are already dead, or, shoot the hostages first to deny terrorists the value they hope the hostages will offer.

Ask yourself, what would Stalin do?  Stalin was probably wone of the most purely political creatures to walk the Earth.  At Stalingrad and Leningrad he gave Russians a choice ... to be shot by the fighting Germans, or to be shot by the Russians if they retreated.

If you value hostages you play into terrorist hands.  Shoot the hostages first, then the terrorists.

If Hamas wants a war of elimination, let's give it to them like we did in Dresden, Tokyo, Nagasaki, and Hiroshima.

I'm the kind of guy that would send a missile right up the Ayatollah's @$$holla and every other mullah in Iran...call it the art of FAFO diplomacy.

[libertybele]

I'm the type of S.O.B. that would presume the hostages are already dead, or, shoot the hostages first to deny terrorists the value they hope the hostages will offer.

Ask yourself, what would Stalin do?  Stalin was probably wone of the most purely political creatures to walk the Earth.  At Stalingrad and Leningrad he gave Russians a choice ... to be shot by the fighting Germans, or to be shot by the Russians if they retreated.

If you value hostages you play into terrorist hands.  Shoot the hostages first, then the terrorists.

If Hamas wants a war of elimination, let's give it to them like we did in Dresden, Tokyo, Nagasaki, and Hiroshima.

The lives of the innocents....

[Smokin Joe]

Many Americans and Europeans, in their relative safety, tell themselves little lies.  They view the world through the lens of equivalency and decency.  They seek to be fair, just, and inclusive as much as they can without sacrifice or skin in the game. 

Even as the pervasive lies in the West increasingly damage the very fairness, equivalency, and decency that once was far more prevalent in Western culture, and in those distortions make Western Culture itself the enemy, even as millions of immigrants and invaders enjoy the benefits of that same culture.

In the quest for fairness and decency, the West has turned toward more surgical strikes, going so far as to use concrete  filled JDAMs in Iraq to take out the building housing enemies without killing the civilians in adjacent ones, in an effort to preserve the lives of innocents.
Maybe there are no real innocents.
Perhaps it is time, after decades of relative peace, to remind the world that when Western Culture is attacked, continents burn, not just cities.