What if...

Over the past week or so, I have been responding in kind to all those people who have been sending me chain e-mails asking me to write my Congressman or Senator to get outraged at the overwhelming Israeli response to Hezbollah and Hamas. So far, the number of articles coming out in defense of Israel have been generally greater than the ones I've seen asking for immediate disengagement. And rightfully so. After years and years of restraint and frustration with a worthless UN, Israel finally cut loose and responded most appropriately to unwarranted attacks across the Lebanese borders. The disproportionate loss of civilian life in Lebanon is indeed a sad and inevitable outcome of this fighting. And although I tend to agree with many of the pundits that this strategy failed in past skirmishes, it generally tends to be applied only to the Israelis and not the terrorists. Let's face it: it's also plainly obvious to me that the idiots within Hezbollah and Hamas don't seem to learn anything from history at all. Period. So what does one do with stupid people? Stupid ARMED people?

But I digress... I wanted to put out a small tidbit for thought out there. Insomuch as it's become even more obvious that Iran and Syria are very much behind the backing of Hezbollah and the news coming out more and more that they're also funding trouble in other parts of the world (including the US), let's conjecture just a little bit. Let's see, Iran supplies rockets and launchers to Hezbollah. They creep up close to the Israeli border to ensure the effectiveness of their limited-range rockets into Israel. Much of those rockets and artillery are stored in houses -- and probably mosques -- all over Beirut. Now I know that a lot of people are saying that Israel should not have devastated Southern Lebanon in response to those rocket attacks. But I've recently used an analogy that has some eerie memories. Somehow, I don't think that JFK would have hesitated to nuke the hell out of Cuba had the Russians not backed down and removed them quickly during the Cuban Missile Crisis of the 60's. And then he might have considered sending another round off to Kruschev as a postscript.

So fast-forward to today. We all know that our neighbor to the south (Mexico for those of you who are geography-challenged) is one of the more corrupt countries. Given how easy it is to bribe officials and Federales and given how rampant the drug trade is down there, I would suspect that a lot of people have some pretty sophisticated artillery down there. What a scenario: Lots of money, lots of munitions, lots of corruption. I'm going to ask everyone to think about this one: When will we expect some missiles to start coming across the border into Texas and Arizona and California? Not 'If,' but 'When'? I think the likelihood is very high and the current conditions encourage it. And think about this one: THEY DON'T HAVE TO CROSS THE BORDER TO GET AT US. Given that line of thought, do you think there's an ulterior motive to patrol the border and build a big fence to keep everyone back far enough away from our border? And would we respond the same way against Mexico for NOT having prevented this type of attack (or perhaps even enabling it)? I may get roasted by bleeding-heart liberals over this one for thinking ahead (or thinking at all) but then, reality bites!

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