cowards and bullies are ALL the same! It never changes from grammar school to the Middle East. They need their head beat in before they will ever learn. But notice that when they are on the receiving end they reveal their true weaknes and cowardice by squealing like pigs for someone to step in and save their sorry worhless arses. A friend sent me this recently: -A parable about Israel/Lebanon Conflict- When I was in the Navy, I once witnessed a bar fight in downtown Olongapo (Philippines) that still haunts my dreams. The fight was between a big oafish bar bully and a rather soft-spoken, medium sized Latino sailor from my ship. All evening the bully had been trying to pick a fight with one of us and had finally set his sights on this diminutive shipmate of mine... figuring him for a safe target. When my friend refused to be goaded into a fight the moron sucker punched him from behind on the side of the head so hard that blood instantly started to pour from this poor man's mutilated ear. Everyone present was horrified and was prepared to absolutely murder this guy, but my shipmate quickly turned on him and began to single-handed back him towards a corner with a series of stinging jabs and upper cuts that gave more than a hint to a youth spent boxing in a small gym in the Bronx. Each punch opened a cut on the bully's startled face and by the time he had been backed completely into the corner he was blubbering for someone to stop the fight. He invoked his split lips and chipped teeth as reasons to stop the fight. He begged us to stop the fight because he could barelysee through the river of blood that was pouring out of his split and swollen brows. Nobody moved. Not one person. The only sound in the bar was the sickening staccato sound of this sailor's lightning fast fists making contact with new areas of the guy's head. The only sound I have heard since that was remotely similar was from the first Rocky film when Sylvester Stallone was punching sides of beef in the meat locker. Finally the bully's pleading turned to screams.... a high, almost womanly shriek. And still the punches continued relentlessly.Several people in the bar took a few tentative steps as though they wanted to try to break it up at that point, but hands reached out from the crowd and held them tight. I'm not ashamed to say that mine were two of the hands that held someone back. You see, in between each blow the sailor had begun chanting a soft cadence: "Say [punch] you [punch] give [punch] up [punch]... say [punch] you [punch] were [punch] wrong [punch]". He had been repeating it to the bully almost from the start but we only became aware of it when the typical barroom cheers had died down and we began to be sickened by the sight and sound of the carnage. This coward stood there shrieking in the corner of the bar trying futilely to block the carefully timed punches that were cutting his head to tatters.. right down to the skull in places. But he refused to say that he gave up... or that he was wrong. Even in the delirium of his beating he believed in his heart that someone would stop the fight before he had to admit defeat. I'm sure this strategy had served him well in the past and had allowed him to continue on his career as a barroom bully. Finally, in a wail of agony the coward shrieked "I give up", and we gently backed the sailor away from him. I'm sure you can guess why I have shared this story today. I'm not particularly proud to have been witness to such a bloody spectacle, and the sound of that bully's woman-like shrieks will haunt me to my grave. But I learned something that evening that Israel had better learn for itself if it is to finally be rid of at least one of its tormentors: This is one time an Arab aggressor must be allowed to be beaten so badly that every civilized nation will stand in horror, wanting desperately to step in and stop the carnage... but knowing that the fight will only truly be over when one side gives up and finally admits defeat. Just as every person who had ever rescued that bully from admitting defeat helped create the cowardly brute I saw that evening in the bar, every well-intentioned power that has ever stepped in and negotiated a ceasefire for an Arab aggressor has helped create the monsters we see around us today. President Lahoud of Lebanon, a big Hezbollah supporter and a close ally of Syria, has been shrieking non-stop to the UN Security Council for the past two days to get them to force Israel into a cease fire. Clearly he has been reading his autographed copy of 'Military Success for Dummie Arab Despots' by the late Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. Ever since Nasser accidentally discovered the trick in '56, every subsequent Arab leader has stuck to his tried and true formula for military success: Instigate a war. Once the war is well underway and you are in the process of having your ass handed to you... get a few world powers to force your western opponent into a cease fire. Whatever you do, don't surrender or submit to any terms dictated by your enemy. That would ruin everything! All you have to do is wait it out and eventually the world will become sickened at what is being done to your soldiers and civilian population... and will force a truce. Once a truce has been called you can resume your intransigence (which probably caused the conflict in the first place), and even declare victory as your opponent leaves the field of battle. This tactic has never failed. Not once. In fact it worked so will for the Egyptians in 1973, that to this day they celebrate the Yom Kippur War - a crushing defeat at the hands of Israel - as a military victory! No kidding... it's a national holiday over there! President Lahoud has already begun to shriek like a school girl to the UN Security Council to "Stop the violence and arrange a cease-fire, and then after that we'll be ready to discuss all matters." Uh huh. Forgive me if I find that a tad hard to swallow. He allowed Hezbollah to take over his country. He allowed the regular Lebanese army to provide radar targeting data for the Hezbollah missile that struck the Israeli destroyer. He has turned a blind eye while Iranian and Syrian weapons, advisers and money have poured into his country. And now that his country is in ruins he wants to call it a draw. As much as it may sicken the world to stand by and watch it happen, strong hands need to hold back the weak-hearted and let the fight continue until one side finally admits unambiguous defeat. "The world is a dangerous place to live not because of the people who are evil,but because of the people who don't do anything about it." -- Albert Einstein
The World Health Organization identified bullying as the number one psychological problem for the human race once. I guess that includes bullying militias all over the world. Bullies work like this: they treat people on their own level, and lower, badly and meanwhile they are kissing the authorities ass. Most people, when being treated badly will go into an introversion mode and wonder what is wrong with them that they are receiving this treatment, and agonize over it. Some of the Israelis seem to do that but I would have to guess that after decades of this garbage they are wising up. Once you wise up you can deal with a bully if you want to but up to that point the bully has you pretty much immobilized. Once somebody understands the bully thing it is a piece of cake to deal with them. I had several on the job, I found out what would piss them off and just kept on doing it until they were berserking. Of course what I really wanted was a good fight, on the surveillance camera, with a lawsuit but all I got was some displays of arm waving and red faces and irrationality. It was fun, and worth it too.
You have your metaphors mixed up. This is the metaphor you should use. Not the half assed retarded one you posted: Some thief turned robber moves into your house. Kicks you and your family out to the neighbors back yard and tells you to fuck off since the house now belongs to him. Of course you can't do anything because the thief is the local Sheriffs butt boy. So when you go to the Sheriff to complain, instead of asking the thief to vacate your house, the Sheriff locks you up and sodomizes you. Once you're beat to a pulp, he releases you and you go to sue him in court. The only problem is the court is also controlled by the Sheriff and his younger brothers. So what do you do now? well, you figure it's time to take matters into your own hands. Anyone should get the drift by now. Apartment sized Tanks and F16's against tooth pick, stones and 50 year old mortars?!! I wonder who's really doing the ass kicking. But then again Americans believe they "kicked ass" and won in Vietnam. You really can't make stuff like this up even if you wanted to.
Great story, iceman. I seriously doubt though that the world has the gumption to see this Israeli-Hezbollah affair to its rightful conclusion. The bleeding hearts, especially the Europeans and the UN, have always been suckers for these "poor" and "oppressed" Arabs. This is a problem the world has to deal with now or deal with later. Either way, it is going to get ugly. BTW, Olongapo has become a virtual ghost town ever since the US military pulled out of Subic Naval base. Must have been quite an adjustment for all those bar girls to have to learn a new profession.
Yeah - that's their standard reply to any US serviceman who's foolish enough to ask them what they actually do for a living. LOL.
What always cracked me up was seeing the ubiquitous virgin farm boy on every freaking cruise who had never been laid back home and he always fell in love with the first flip he fucked â¦.one of the "student girls." I swear we'd be all over everything that moved and then some and then we'd see Dumb Little PFC. Puppy Love on the last day of libo spending his whole check on his new love Subic City Suzie Rotten Crotch. Oh those were the days...not a care in the world except PT, Weps, and whacking commies.
Between Israel and Lebanon, isn'tât Israel the big bully down there? Isnât Israel many more times more powerful than Lebanon in conventional weapons and military? Add to that Israelâs nuclear arsenal, include US support and US military might behind it. Who is the big bully? Lebanon?