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Thursday, December 13, 2012
Restoring Deterrence
With one act, a young girl (woman for those that find that word offensive) managed to restore just a little bit of the deterrence that has been chipped away from us over these past few years.
I almost thought that the videos of our IDF soldiers running away(!) from Arab stone throwers was the nail in the coffin, but then the IDF released a statement that they did the right thing by running away, which just about pushed that coffin over the cliff.
That statement came after the strong denial the other week from the IDF, denying any role in the killing of the terrorists that attacked, injured, and nearly killed Israeli security personnel.
It seems that the IDF doesn't know what it's mission is anymore. Not since Gush Katif - its "most successful large scale operation ever".
The IDF is embarrassed to fight to win, the politicians are afraid to give them orders to fight. And the soldiers don't want to fight, because they don't want to go to jail or be punished.
After last night's heroic act, I was sure the IDF was going to release a clarification that the girl (woman) was a border policeman, and not to be confused with an IDF soldier.
They certainly aren't doing a great job defending her against the critics that are threatening her.
The IDF needs an overhaul, and I know someone who deserves to be involved in the retraining.
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JoeSettler
Very well said.
ReplyDeleteThe IDF didn't say the soldiers were right to run away. They said the clip was edited to make it look as if the soldiers were running away, when they were actually chasing other stone throwers.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you expect with Barak as Defense Minster? Bibi will probably do everything he can to have Barak serve another term.
ReplyDeleteOff topic but interesting...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=295837
Here's the video. It's one very smooth stream from when the soldiers chase the Arabs, until the Arabs start throwing stones and the IDF soldiers turn to scramble away.
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/zhwinsDO4n0
There was no editing here of the event as you can see.
It's a failure of the IDF, and the IDF statement is a bigger failure of their believability.
What about her makes her a girl? She's 20 years old. "Girl" is not offensive, it's just inaccurate.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, agreed.