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The Viet Cronk Strategy
Either you accept that Israel has been targeted for extinction, or you snoozed through all of Ahmadinejad's "We will wipe Israel off the map"
iterations. Mothers will lift cars off children, and
fight Godzilla when loved ones are threatened; nations ought be
no different. Are we on the same page so far?
Siege Fatigue and the Flotilla Mistake, found in today's WSJ, is my case in point here, because it's representative.
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Monday's botched commando raid on the Gaza-bound flotilla has proven
disastrous for Israel. World public opinion has united in condemning
the Jewish state and the U.N. Security Council has already demanded an
inquiry. Closer to home, the strategic alliance that Israel had
painstakingly forged with Turkey is in tatters.
The horrific
outcome—so far nine killed and dozens wounded—has caused irreparable
damage to Israel's image. Even if the video evidence proves beyond doubt
that the activists on board the ships were armed and that they were the
first to attack, the battle for public opinion (which, after all, is
what the flotilla exercise was really about) was lost the moment the
first Israeli soldier set foot on the deck of the Mavi Marmara—the
Turkish ferry that served as the flagship. [Deja yada-yada]
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This is the same rhetoric New York Times reporter David Halberstam
(who
will here be representative of the ilk) dispatched from Vietnam in the
60-70's. Seize upon every minor defeat, with the goal of
projecting large scale failure. Written to shape anti-war
opinion, and consumed by
people who would eventually, despite their better instincts, buy
into the concept of winning wars through negotiated settlements.
It was disastrous strategy for Kennedy, LBJ, and 50,000 dead Americans
then, and always will be.
I love Israel's response to the Islamo threat, for the same
reason I love Jan Brewer's immigration law, Gov. Christie's refusal to
raise taxes; and President Bush's "with-us or against us" proclamation: survival is winning strategy. As long as the good guys don't again listen to David Halberstam and Walter Cronkite.
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