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     Aesquire |
https://www.timesofisrael.com/muhammad-deifs-death -would-be-a-turning-point-in-the-war-on-hamas/ I disagree that killing this terrorist leader is a turning point, unless it actually triggers a collapse of organization and a surge of tunnel explosions/mini battles. I point out he was hiding behind women and children. If you ever find yourself a human shield in such a situation? Logic and martial arts training tells me to run away. If I can't? My Faith tells me to fight to protect the weak and innocent. Dying by enemy bomb or fighting to kill the coward endangering the children is still dead. One is more honorable. ( in that aspect I understand Islam ) | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/petraeus-israel-gaza- counterinsurgency-coin Sorry Dave, you're a stuck record, and it's such bad mumble rap no one noticed. A hearts and minds operation only works if the majority wants to live in peace. I don't believe the Polls from Gaza, but after more than 70 years of teaching hatred, that majority sure won't defend themselves from the tyranny that rules them. Too many neighbors murdered in their homes by the PLA & Hamas. And it's not an insurgency Israel and Western Civilization is fighting. It's the government. Illegitimate, evil, terrorist, but it's also the police and the vigilante groups and the teachers of hate. Counter insurgent ops is like putting anti shoplifting beepers on the products when the windows are smashed and a mob is looting the store. Every misguided/malign delay in eliminating Hamas and the U.N. in Gaza has resulted in more civilians killed. Many by Hamas and affiliated terror groups. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://9gag.com/gag/a87MPV1 | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/07/rep ort-iran-seeks-to-take-trump-out.php | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/dramatic-fo otage-shows-oil-tanker-hit-kamikaze-boat-drone-red -sea Iran backed pirate/terrorists Joe* won't stop. And there's pictures of a fairly big explosion in Gaza that's blamed on the IDF. Which technically is true, since it was probably an IDF explosive that detonated the Iranian weapons cache. Probably. If I was trapped in Gaza by Hamas, and wanted the war to end faster, blowing up a garage full of rockets that was next to the school, so the Israelis don't have to battle down my street to stop more from being fired at innocent civilians, seems like an enlightened self interest idea. | ||
| Tpehak |
That oil tanker tried to evade the sanctions, of course Houthis attacked it. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://9gag.com/gag/ajPDnjG Good answer. Peace will come when Radicals are no longer acceptable. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.timesofisrael.com/explosive-drone-hits -tel-aviv-apartment-killing-man-and-wounding-sever al-others/ | ||
| Tpehak |
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| Crusty |
Yeah; attacking those poor lions in the Colosseum really was a poor way to spread a religion of peace. They should have flown 737s into the Senate! Or maybe they could have put some Jews in a Concentration Camp! Yeah! That's the ticket! (Message edited by Crusty on July 20, 2024) | ||
| Aesquire |
Crusty, Not All Christians are Crusaders! Sure, the vast, peaceful majority are irrelevant to the killed in Constantinople, ( not their finest hour, to be fair ) But it only takes a small minority to wreck a faith's reputation, if the majority refuse to police them, out of fear or desire to do the same, lacking the will and courage. You can substitute any faith and associated group in that First Sentence. Kali worshipers, whatever. What matters is the overall faith's desire and ACTION at fighting the radicals who do terrorism. The Crusaders are a bit of a special case, a combination of Global Warming leading to far better crop yields, more children not dying young, and extra sons that won't inherit the farm/castle/town. Plus, the invasion of the Holy Land by Islamist Armies, and a Pope willing to solve both problems, with one solution. In historic terms, it was pretty brief and the Christian Churches by the 20th century had evolved beyond Religious war, after a long period of the Mother Church vs. the Protestants, which still lingers in some areas, although even Ireland is pretty calm on that front. Now their problem is... Islamification. I dare you to find a Christian Church with actual churches and followers who won't condemn any terrorist that murders in their name Today. OTOH, it's hard to find a Muslim, that vast peaceful Majority, who Dare to complain about the 15?% that are the second most murderous cult in human history. And since it's the most aggressively expanding cult on Earth, there's about 300 million willing to support terrorism even if they are too old, or cowardly to rape & murder themselves. Don't even try to deny the Christians, rather some Christian Church Organizations, were once aggressive in conversion and spreading the faith. A very few still are pretty active in Peaceful proselytizing, but none in OUR lifetimes has Converted by the Sword, or vowed to enslave all who are not of their faith. Which is SOP in Islam. Feel free to point out the oppression by the Romans and other groups, though. Hiding the faith under the Roman's noses is why Christmas is in December near Solstice, instead of tax season. ( Technically, April 15 should be a time of Religious celebration and maybe Defiance of the Secular Authorities, although I think the Roman tax season was in early March? ) ( Why it was cold in Bethlehem. ) | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.jns.org/iaf-strikes-houthi-targets-in- yemen-in-retaliation-for-tel-aviv-attack/ I expect a ship carrying weapons to Yemen from Iran to be a legitimate target. Blown up in port with massive secondaries is a pretty clear signal. And I point out that the Mullahs are using civilians as human shields for their nuclear bomb program, both in the Capitol of Tehran and the Religious Pilgrimage City of Qom. Experiment in the 1950's showed it's possible to set off a fission bomb with a regular one, so U.S. bombs are provided with safeguards, the simplest basically a crow bar that prevents symmetrical compression of the fissile material. Since Iranian bombs are probably copies of Russian bombs ( or American plans from the internet, probably 4Chan ) which are known copies of 1940's American bombs, how safe the Iranian ones are is unknown. To be fair, the Soviets had smart scientists, and their later bombs were domestic designs and led the world in bigger & bigger bangs. But I've known for years that the hype over how hard it is to make a fission bomb is propaganda to try to keep people from trying to build them in a basement. The hard part is the fissionable materials, and that has to be pretty big in size & energy consumption. Mildly amusing anecdote. This book came out when I was in High School. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54968.The_Curv e_of_Binding_Energy Theodore B. Taylor was an interesting guy who designed the smallest & largest fission bombs ever tested. Davy Crockett & SOB. He was quite concerned with nuclear proliferation, the subject of the book above. Against everyone having them, to be clear. In 1976 my best friend was in the Army, and let's just say had an interesting job, the kind that his work building in a foreign city was pre-targeted by American Heavy Mortars to prevent capture in case the Soviets rolled over the border with lots of tanks. We discussed the book above in detail in letters to see how much of my letters got censored ( only to his U.S. postings! ) to troll Army Security. His replies were exercises in keeping in bounds, while mine were stretching them. One one occasion, he told me later, he got called in to explain & told them I was an American Patriot and certainly would never make anything "bad" & Absolutely had the technical skill to do so, since at the time I was doing precision work on the Redacted on the Redacted on the base outside. He was asked to stop the trolling as it was freaking out the counter espionage department, and to ask me to stop sending "have fun and be safe" in encrypted forms using Sherlock Holmes books ( and other open source codes ) to the security guys reading the letters. My notification of this was an obviously opened and resealed letter from him telling me to knock it off & change to fiction book discussion, with a note from ASA that they'd enjoyed making the rookies decode my letters, but it was time to stop, please. In Freemason code from the 1800's. THEY had a sense of humor then. Good book btw, a bit terrifying. Post script. My Army buddy and I had a private party with Scotch and a camp fire & discussed our little game and re-read the little correspondence we'd saved one last time. I kinda wished I'd saved that note. But I'm sure it's on file next to the Ark. (Message edited by Aesquire on July 21, 2024) | ||
| Whisperstealth |
It's always been about the materials and the tools to make it. The science of actually making one has been out there forever. In some ways the science is settled.... LOL. For the Deep State and other's monitoring this forum... I just want to say I have neither the materials nor the tools to make one, but most importantly, absolutely no desire to if I did. It's so much easier to simply buy them from the Russians... I kid, I kid. LMAO | ||
| Aesquire |
So true, don't need another thing cluttering up the house. Worse than a swimming pool for attractive nuisance lawsuits. All those black helicopters hovering overhead.  I'd much rather stick to hobbies that don't involve really poisonous stuff. Funny enough, It's always been about the materials and the tools to make it. applies to armor as well. Today I can just drive to the store and buy a 4x8 sheet of stainless, which would be a miracle in 14th century Europe. Even mild steel is such a large size would be a wonder the whole village would turn out to see. Speaking of poisonous, I worked at a machine shop that did custom work, and we got a bid proposal for some simple to machine thing, fairly tight tolerances but not complex, just lathe work. Except is was Beryllium. Boss hands me the print, asks how much time, and I read it carefully, ( Euro-spec prints have odd features, projection differences, you have to be careful not to make mirror images of what the customer wants ) and told the boss we could do it, but I needed to build a glove box around the lathe, and figure the cost of hazardous waste disposal when we had the lathe taken away wrapped in plastic. I recommended we let someone else do the work. Titanium, any day, Lead, sure, but Beryllium dust will flat kill you and not pleasantly or quick. Uranium is actually easier to carve safely, but it's still nothing I'd want to work with. Knowing how doesn't mean I want to. If It was a Government job, The U.S. to be crystal, then sure, using the waldo tools that sane people use, in an environmentally controlled shop, with someone checking my math on critical neutron cross section, ( Not math I've done since college ) Or actually me checking theirs, then Yes, I'd be interested in building reaction units for an Orion drive craft to push a civilization killing asteroid into a safe orbit. Weapons, not so much. I don't regret doing DOD jobs, not at all, but helicopters and artillery are less morally problematic. It was one thing in a bipolar world where nukes were a deterrent against Soviet invasion, but today that psychological equation doesn't apply with Jihad. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://instapundit.com/662347/ Infrastructure. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-new-girl- disorder | ||
| Aesquire |
Houthi sea drone kill. https://9gag.com/gag/aAyPyLL | ||
| Aesquire |
https://9gag.com/gag/ajPDPyR Paliwood | ||
| Tpehak |
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| Aesquire |
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2024/07 /24/netanyahu-slams-irans-useful-idiots-in-the-us- n2642470 | ||
| Hootowl |
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/anti-israel-agita tors-descend-dc-ahead-israeli-pm-netanyahus-addres s-congress Charge citizens with providing support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and deport everyone else. Problem solved. | ||
| Whisperstealth |
+1 No, +1,000,000 The USA Citizens should absolutely be charged with treason, vandalism, inciting a riot, etc. The foreigners should be deported without hearing and sent packing. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/07/fou rth-time-around.php Has anyone else noticed the Paris Olympics and the assaults? | ||
| Whisperstealth |
>>> Has anyone else noticed the Paris Olympics and the assaults? Not really. Don't much care about the Olympics anymore. Guess I should pay at least a little attention, but Meh. They just don't mean much to me, too much rigging, too much corruption, to many athletes I just flat out have disdain for pretending to be patriotic. Plus, I'm pretty much tired of USA Citizens going abroad then being surprised at being mistreated and assaulted. Stay the F home. | ||
| Crusty |
https://babylonbee.com/news/criminals-in-congress- begin-helpfully-holding-signs-to-identify-themselv es?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm _medium=email | ||
| Aesquire |
https://claritywithmichaeloren.substack.com/p/a-ve ry-perilous-window | ||
| Tpehak |
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| Aesquire |
You know, Putin could really score a big win by nuking Iran and partnering with Israel to restore religious freedom in the region from the Mediterranean to the Urals. Join the Abraham Accords, offer peace to Europe and save Christianity. Greatest Russian in history. Famous for a thousand years. | ||
| Hootowl |
Even better, I do not blame them at all. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/07/isr ael-is-in-mortal-danger.php Hoot, you gotta blame them for all the Nobel Prizes and medical advancements that have saved millions! Without them we would have a much smaller population of much poorer people. Which you'd think would make the Greenies happy, but they'd all be dead. |
