Killing Nasrallah - Israel shows America how to win wars

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Killing Nasrallah - Israel shows America how to win wars
Tablet ^ | 27 Sep, 2024 | Lee Smith

Posted on 09/28/2024 5:45:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Friday evening in the Levant, Israel targeted buildings in the southern suburbs of Beirut killing Hezbollah General Secretary Hassan Nasrallah. This operation represents a dramatic shift in Israeli strategy. Not only have they finally liquidated an adversary they’ve long been capable of killing, they’ve also turned a deaf ear to their superpower patron of more than half a century. But at this stage, heeding Washington’s advice in war is like taking counsel from the angel of death. Just as the U.S. is no longer willing or able to win the wars it commits Americans to fight, the Joe Biden administration won’t let U.S. allies win wars either.

By ordering the strike on Nasrallah while attending the U.N. General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underscored the Jewish state’s independence from the global consensus that has resolved not to confront terrorists but rather to appease them, whether they’re plotting in the Middle East or living among the local populations of Western nations, including the United States. Israel’s attack also shows that almost everything U.S. and other Western civilian and military leaders have believed about the Middle East for the last 20 years was simply a collection of excuses for losing wars. The questions that senior policymakers and Pentagon officials, think-tank experts and journalists have deliberated over since the invasion of Iraq—questions about the nature of modern warfare and the proper conduct of international relations in a multipolar world, etc.—can now be set aside for good because they have been resolved definitively.

The answers are as they ever were—at least before the start of the “global war on terror.” Contrary to the convictions of George W. Bush-era neoconservatives and the pro-Iran progressives in Barack Obama’s camp, securing a nation’s peace has nothing to do with winning narratives, or nation-building, or balancing U.S. allies against your mutual enemies for the sake of regional equilibrium, or any of the other academic theories generated to mask a generation’s worth of failure. Rather, it means killing your enemies, above all those who advocate and embody the causes that inspire others to exhaust their murderous energies against you. Thus, killing Nasrallah was essential.

Taking down officers demoralizes a force. Wiping out its chain of command cripples it. Hezbollah is a function of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, and if allowed to survive the Lebanese militia will be replenished and trained by the IRGC to replace the fallen. Nasrallah issued from a different source. He was the protégé of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. Their tenures—until now—were roughly coterminous: Khamenei replaced the founder of the Islamic Republic Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989 and chose Nasrallah to lead Hezbollah in 1992. The Iranians built around Nasrallah not only a network of proxies stretching from the eastern Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf but also a comprehensive worldview—permanent resistance. Killing him marks a defining moment capping the end of a 30-year reign of terror.....SNIP


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: jihad

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1 posted on 09/28/2024 5:45:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber


To: MtnClimber

Joe seems only so happy to start wars. He just has no clue how to end them.


2 posted on 09/28/2024 5:45:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)


To: MtnClimber

Democrat Joe Biden doesn’t WANT to end wars.

The Military Industrial Complex makes a lot of money during Forever War.


3 posted on 09/28/2024 5:52:02 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)


To: MtnClimber

Saw this tidbit in another article:

Within the last hours Reuters has reported that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been “transferred to a secure location inside the country with heightened security measures in place,” according to Iranian security officials.


Seems like someone is really, really scared.

4 posted on 09/28/2024 5:52:13 AM PDT by rbg81


To: MtnClimber

Yeah.

In order to follow the headline, we'd have to take out almost the entire democrat party.

5 posted on 09/28/2024 5:53:30 AM PDT by knarf


To: MtnClimber

Brilliant article, through and through.

Highly recommended reading.

Thanks!


6 posted on 09/28/2024 6:02:44 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" And I said, "Here I am! Send me." )


To: knarf

It takes a democrat to lose a war that’s already won.


7 posted on 09/28/2024 6:02:54 AM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)


To: MtnClimber

“Rather, it means killing your enemies, above all those who advocate and embody the causes that inspire others to exhaust their murderous energies against you. Thus, killing Nasrallah was essential.

“Taking down officers demoralizes a force. Wiping out its chain of command cripples it.”

__________

The sentiments expressed here are too broad.

Hillary Clinton for example would seemingly leap apply them to a certain individual who is risking his life daily to make America great again. That wouldn’t be justified.

Putin also might apply them to Zelenskyy. That too wouldn’t be justified. Neither would it be justified for Zelenskyy to apply them to Putin.

So the sentiments need somehow to be narrowed lest they be hijacked by evil people against the good.

Not sure how that should be done. But it should be done. Is the author being deliberately loose with language?



To: MtnClimber

Narrallah killed our Marines in Beirut, no?



To: MtnClimber

Summary paragraph:

"Wars are won by killing the enemy, above all, those who inspire their people to kill yours. Killing Nasrallah not only anchors Israel’s victory in Lebanon but reestablishes the old paradigm for any Western leaders who take seriously their duty to protect their countrymen and civilization: Kill your enemies."

10 posted on 09/28/2024 6:08:38 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" And I said, "Here I am! Send me." )


To: All

Israel shows America how to win wars b/c Israel has US munitions
and weaponry to destroy whomever it wants entirely on its own.

References

Biden’s 2023 US arms handout to Israel immediately after the Oct 7, 2023 attack:
<><>57,000 155mm artillery shells
<><>more than 5,000 Mk82 unguided or “dumb” bombs,
<><>more than 5,400 Mk84 2,000 pound warhead bombs,
<><>around 1,000 GBU-39 small diameter bombs,
<><>approximately 3,000 JDAMs, which turn unguided bombs into guided “smart” bombs,
<><>BLU-109 bunker busters w/ 2,000 pound warheads designed to penetrate concrete shelters.

On March 30, 2024 Joe Biden secretly authorized billions of dollars in new bombs and fighter jets for Israel, despite US officials publicly expressing worry over mounting Palestinian death toll in Tel Aviv’s brutal war on besieged Gaza.

The arms approved this week by the US president include deadly 1,800 MK84 2,000-pound bombs and 500 MK82 500-pound bombs, anonymous State and Defense Department officials told the Washington Post.

The State Department last week approved the transfer of 25 F-35A fighter jets and engines, a US official added. The planes and engines are estimated to be worth around $2.5 billion.

There are no corresponding announcements on the Defense Security Cooperation Agency’s website where such notifications are normally posted.

On Friday, Senator Bernie Sanders criticised Biden administration’s approval of sending more weapons to Israel. “The US cannot beg Netanyahu to stop bombing civilians one day and the next send him thousands more 2,000 lb. bombs that can level entire city blocks. This is obscene,” Sanders said on X, sharing the report of Washington Post. “We must end our complicity: No more bombs to Israel,” Sanders reiterated.

Biden also recently gave Israel an extra $billion tax dollars but its not clear why.....seems like Biden cant help himself from putting America last.

There’s Obama’s $38 billion deal that covers fiscal years 2019-2028 that includes:
<><>-annual US payments to Israel of $3.3 billion in “military financing,”
<><>-$500 million a year for Israel’s missile defense operations in the Negev, a foreign aid first,
<><>-A phasing-out of Israel’s decades-long “special arrangement”
<><>ie. Israel used 26.3% of US aid on its own global defense industry (not on US-made weapons).
<><>-Eliminates Israel using some 13% of US aid to buy military fuel.
<><>-will allow Israel to update “the lion’s share” of its fighter aircraft,
<><>includes purchasing additional F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.
<><>Israel is to initially receive thirty-three F-35 aircraft,
<><>the first two F-35’s will be delivered in December.

The (a) weaponry build-up from Obama 2018 into 2028, (b) follows the $30 billion weaponry deal Israel signed in 2007, which expires at the end of fiscal 2018, and (c) a systematic buildup of Israeli arms, like this one in 2015.

https://www.dsca.mil/press-media/major-arms-sales/israel-joint-direct-attack-munition-tail-kits-and-munitions

ISRAEL – JOINT DIRECT ATTACK MUNITION TAIL KITS AND MUNITIONS
Defense Security Cooperation Agency
Media/Public Contact
pm-cpa@state.gov
Transmittal No 15-36

WASHINGTON, May 19, 2015
As required by US law, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale to Israel on May 18, 2015: Joint Direct Attack Munition Tail Kits, munitions, and associated equipment, parts and logistical support for an estimated cost of $1.879 billion.

The Government of Israel has requested:
<><>14,500 KMU-556C/B Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) tail kits
<><>consisting of 10,000 for Mk-84;
<><>500 for Mk-83;
<><>and,4,000 for Mk-82;
<><>3,500 Mk-82 bombs; 4,500 Mk-83 bombs;
<><>50 BLU-113 bombs;
<><>4,100 GBU-39 Small Diameter bombs;
<><>1,500 Mk-83 Paveway kits;
<><>700 BLU-109 Paveway kits;
<><>3,000 AGM-114K/R Hellfire Missiles,
<><>250 AIM-120C Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles;
<><>and 500 DSU-38A/B Detector Laser Illuminated Target kits for JDAMs.

The proposed sale of this equipment will provide Israel
<><>the ability to support its self-defense needs
<><>enable Israel to maintain operational capability of its existing systems
<><>and will enhance Israel’s interoperability with the United States.

Israel already has these munitions in its inventory, and will have no difficulty absorbing the additional munitions into its armed forces.


All questions regarding this proposed Foreign Military Property to Israel should be directed to the State Department’s Bureau of Political Military Affairs, Office of Congressional and Public Affairs, pm-cpa@state.gov.

11 posted on 09/28/2024 6:09:41 AM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)


To: MtnClimber

Dem strategy of dropping pallets of cash hasn’t worked out.



To: rbg81

The thing is, he can’t be sure he can trust his bodyguards. There no “secure” locations.


13 posted on 09/28/2024 6:14:25 AM PDT by maro (MAGA!)


To: Uncle Miltie

This is a brilliant writer.

He wasted no words. He got to the point repeatedly. Most of his ideas are new and important. He trashed the status quo effectively. He laid down a new/old theory of war which if followed will save millions of lives in the long run, by killing bad guys in the short run.

Phenomenal.


14 posted on 09/28/2024 6:16:55 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" And I said, "Here I am! Send me." )


To: one guy in new jersey

Narrallah killed our Marines in Beirut, no?

The Beirut bombing happened in 1983. The bombing was blamed on Islamic Jihad, but some said it was Iran and Hezbollah. Nazrallah was named to head Hezbollah 1n 1993. He could have been involved in the 1983 attack, but I don't know. He was not head of Hezbollah at the time.

15 posted on 09/28/2024 6:17:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)


To: Liz

Excellent.

I am happy we are providing the Jews in Israel the means with which to kill jihadis there before they come to kill my family here.

Am Yisrael Chai!


16 posted on 09/28/2024 6:19:22 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" And I said, "Here I am! Send me." )


To: MtnClimber

I said Nasrallah was in Iran but it seams he was still packing his bags at his HQ


17 posted on 09/28/2024 6:19:36 AM PDT by butlerweave


To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

18 posted on 09/28/2024 6:20:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)


To: MtnClimber

Killing the big bad doesn’t win the war. We killed the big bad multiple times. They just make new ones. Even if you take out the entire terrorist organization, they just make new ones.


19 posted on 09/28/2024 6:24:36 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)


To: MtnClimber

And, how to deal with your enemies!


20 posted on 09/28/2024 6:28:06 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)


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