Kill the sponsors and the surrogates will die on the vine

While the Israeli Defense Force uses F-16s to chase Islamo-terror-fascists who fire man-packed missiles willy nilly into Israel’s civilian population on behalf of the “religion of peace”, Basshar Assad and the nut case that runs Iran sit back with a hookah pipe and chuckle at the chaos that they have created. How can Israeli better respond to the state sponsored terror being visited upon them?

Small war experts know that using conventional forces to chase down a small group terrorists who move among the larger population with the support of that population, is a fool’s game. The Lebanese government seem unable to control Hezbollah, even if it wanted to. We know that Hezbollah is not making the weapons that they fire into Israel. They are getting them from Syria and Iran. While it is difficult wage war on terrorists with conventional forces, it would be a comparatively simple matter to wage a conventional war on Syria. Iran is tougher nut to crack, but let’s face it, we’re going to have to do it sooner or later.

So let’s get on with it. President Bush has made the case any state that supports a terrorist is a terrorist state. Syria and Iran are terrorist states waging a terror war against Israel. Let’s make them feel some of the pain of that war. We should start with Syria. Crush them. Kill Assad. Then tell Iran “you’re next” if there is not an immediate change in your policies starting with UN nuke inspectors.

It would be great if we “could all just get along” but reality bites. It’s time to take the war to the sponsors that have created this mess and let the surrogates die on the vine.