Victor Davis Hanson Discusses Elevated
Picture of Hamas Attack Against Israel
Conservative Treehouse,
by
Sundance
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
10/8/2023 2:09:41 PM
Victor Davis Hanson is a man not known for short-term thinking. Indeed, while his analysis does not always contain the same scope of datapoints reviewed here, his opinions are generally rooted in accepting things as they are, not as he would pretend them to be.
Recently during an interview with Tucker Carlson, as he contrasts the targeting of President Donald Trump, VDH was far more distraught than previously noted in his analysis. He increasingly sees our American options for a peaceful approach to retain our constitutional republic, diminishing.
Today, VDH takes the overall geopolitical landscape and outlines his thoughts below on the Hamas terror attack against the nation state of Israel.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 10/8/2023 2:27:42 PM (No. 1572387)
Suppose a guy down the street raised three or four big, vicious dogs and he periodically would "accidentally" let them loose to prey on your children and pets? And if you managed the first time to shoot the dogs as they were mauling your family and pets, it would be "over", right?
But suppose the same neighbor got three or four new big, vicious dogs and again "accidentally" let them loose on your family and pets? So, you get your gun and kill a couple of dogs, but some get home and the police and courts do nothing, won't act, just ignore it. And this neighbor now buys some replacement vicious dogs....and repeats the process, every couple of years. Endlessly. You shoot his dogs, he gets new dogs.
Is the problem the dogs or the neighbor? Is the solution to keep shooting his dogs, or maybe, in a world where there are no police and no courts, perhaps you eventually realize that the neighbor is the real problem, and perhaps the real solution is to shoot the neighbor.
Call the neighbor Iran, and his vicious dogs are Hamas, Hezbolla, and whatever other middle east terrorist groups that Iran hires and creates.
This ends when the barbaric, violent, death-loving Iranian regime is destroyed. And Israel has that power, but I doubt that they have the will to do it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 10/8/2023 3:42:54 PM (No. 1572427)
I read that Hamas took out the command/guard towers first... ...with drones.
This was well-planned, and someone had to have trained these thuggish monsters on how to use the drones... and from whom did they get the drones????? Afghan imports, perhaps, via Iran? stamped Made in the USA? Left behind, a gift from the Biden Administration?
Obviously, I am speculating. And I am sick to my stomach about this. About ALL of it.
ALL of it, our corrupt, venal, weak, flaccid politicians (not leaders, not patriots --with one or a few exceptions--) virtually all of them polishing their oligarch badges, picking all the ripe fruit, burning what's left behind.
The Roman Empire (bet they never thought they'd become a by-word for how an empire collapses) ended with a whimper, men's "chests stuffed with straw", love of country having dissolved in the hodgepodge alchemy of money, apathy, and hedonism. "I've got mine," they say as they saunter off to their latifundia on the outskirts of Rome, or maybe their yachts or island mansions. They're guaranteed their spoiled offspring will populate the ivies and become lawyers to wage lawfare to ruin opponents and in the meantime destroy the legal system which was once the shining beacon of Equality under the Law and the best political system ever devised, because God was in the planning.
But God has been ousted. Truth has fallen in the street. See what Isaiah has to say about this.
It's all there in this hideous nightmare. And the warnings have been there. And as it has always been, tyrants love political power vacuums, and if the USA doesn't lead, the international equilibrium, such as it is, will begin to wobble and spin, going haywire. And this could be how the world ends, maybe with a lot of bangs and a whimper.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 10/8/2023 4:15:46 PM (No. 1572449)
FTA - "“We urged all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing.”"
VDH, I love ya, bro. But you continue to assume that a passive good will overcome a violent evil. Any chance you might think this over, sir?
Meanwhile, an ignorant Amerika goes on to absorb the next iteration of msm propaganda.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 10/8/2023 4:58:58 PM (No. 1572478)
Re #3, I believe that the statement you quoted came from Traitor Joe and VDH was just reporting it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
mc squared 10/8/2023 7:43:12 PM (No. 1572566)
I smell Obama & company behind our clandestine support for Hamas
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
thekidsmom66 10/9/2023 2:04:42 AM (No. 1572720)
#3, read it again. VDH is quoting what the Biden administration posted and explaining why it's absurd:
"In this regard, note the current shameful State-Department (“U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs”) website news release that was posted after today’s attack. It ended with this quite embarrassing, morally equivalent admonition:
“We urged all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing.”
“All sides?” “Refrain from retaliatory attacks?”
So Israel is the moral equivalent of terrorists executing civilians and brutalizing their corpses? And the IDF then is not supposed to retaliate against these killers?
This Biden State Department insanity cannot stand. So expect some apparatchik to take down this Munich-like posting as soon as possible."
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 10/9/2023 10:12:34 AM (No. 1572929)
Conservative Treehouse guy is prolix verbose and not a friend to the English language. Unreadable. Never read his stuff.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Zigrid 10/9/2023 11:58:10 AM (No. 1573035)
There will always be tyrants who love having power and prestige...and that's why the world oligarchs hate Americans...WE were raised to believe in ourselves and love our freedom...the rats did a number on the city plantations for 20 years...but WE folk out here in the real world know that the battle for our souls is coming our way...thank God for President Trump.....he will see US through these obama illegal times....
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