Opinion
More Lessons:
“Lessons learned at bitter cost are promptly forgotten, usually within a single generation, and thus must be “re-learned” all over again (at great price) by the foolish who don’t study history.” ~ Anon.
The War has started. It’s too late to “do it differently!”
There is scant doubt that observant intelligence analysts in both Israel and the USA, in the normal course of just doing their jobs, saw plain indications that the attack on Israel was imminent.
Plans and mobilization for an attack on this level cannot be kept secret!
Yet, when these dedicated analysts came to their woke bosses, saying, “We need to pay attention to this!” Their bosses contemptuously dismissed them with something like, “Don’t worry about it” When the shallow and self-centered don’t want something to be true, they “pretend” it’s not true.
That’s exactly what happened at Pearl Harbor in 1941, in Vietnam just prior to the Tet Offensive in 1968 (I was there for that one!), and in NYC in September of 2001.
The Israeli government is now (a little late!) distributing military rifles and ammunition to citizens.
Heretofore, such weapons were locked in armories, even in border areas, and not kept in the homes of people who desperately needed them close at hand and instantly deployable.
Israel’s borders (like ours) are mostly “symbolic.” Most Israelis living in border areas naively believed various fences and occasional patrols actually represented a legitimate “deterrent.”
Once again, a convenient “belief,” but a complete fantasy!
For the decades since 1948, many Israelis foolishly believed that when they were just nice to their Arab neighbors (who vociferously hate their guts) that these very people, who continuously vow to exterminate every one of them, would someday “learn to like us!”
Maybe a noble-minded thought, but complete nonsense, as we now see and have seen repeatedly!
Israel, and really all of Western Civilization, suffered (and continues to suffer) from a dastardly surprise attack that deliberately targeted defenseless non-combatants. It has plunged the area into intense warfare that may not stay contained to the region.
I’m so weary of hearing “Never Again” because I’ve heard it so many times before, yet “never” keeps happening to Jews and to the rest of Western Civilization.
Short memories lead to short lives!
/John
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John, you are being too kind. The Israeli government is handing out an extremely small number of weapons to very special people, is allowing a small number of citizens who had previously been approved to buy a firearm, and is in the process of purchasing 10,000 rifles for a select group of citizens. They are just spitting in the ocean. You are right about lessons learned being quickly forgotten. It doesn’t take a generation. Great Britain is a prime example. They disarmed their subjects after WWI, had to beg the west for anything that would shoot when WWII broke out,… Read more »
Well written, and on point. We here in America are letting our own government do it to us.
It’s only a matter of time before there is no America.
this is exactly why our government does not like history to be taught in it’s funded school system,
Biden will save Israel. He’s about to invite every Palestinian misfit in the Jihad prone years of life to the United States!
The best defense is a great offense and we the people in America will never surrender our arms to tyrants , its that simple .FJB and all gun grabbers on both sides of the aisle .
I’m worried. While talking to a guide that has a ranch on the Texas border we got talking about the border crises. They had a cabin broke into. They called border patrol. After investigating, he told them it was another group of 25-35 yr. old Iranians. He told them said there were groups of 10-15 Iranians crossing the border. I’m afraid that they’re setting up cell groups in America. You never hear about them in the news.