Didn’t do much today. Went to class, came back home, ate, went to Dave’s apartment for small group meeting.
Recently it came to my attention the intensity of the ongoing war between Israel and Palestine. Although I support Israel for whatever they do because of my religious background, I found myself equally supporting the Palestinians. The blood has been shed, and more is to come. What is to be done, then, of this ongoing war? Have we learned nothing since the last two great Wars? Need they sacrifice the lives and hopes and dreams of each others lives because of religious dispute? Why can’t a system be worked through a simple word called understanding? Are the world’s leaders today too ignorant, too afraid, too egoistic to stand up and say, wait a minute, this isn’t going anywhere, why don’t we start from the beginning again… except this time, we’re going to realize that the opposing side is just as right as we are and just as ambitious. Is, then, sacrificing one’s reputation less important than bloodshed by the hundreds? What is this needless fighting, the destruction of homes and religious buildings alike, accomplishing? What do they see? Surely the terrorist attacks and the suicide bombers in Israel, the reactionary military offensive in Palestine can be justified by means. But when means comes to justification and justification leads to means, what then? Are they doomed to fight mindlessly for generations to come? No, it needn’t be that way, and it shouldn’t. Weak leaders on both sides of the war have done nothing but negotiate to no ends. Someone needs to stop. Someone needs to be strong enough to stop one’s own country or significantly influence the nation to stop the hate attacks, the suicide bombings, the assassinations and executions.
If both of those countries do not come to its senses, I truly believe that this country should. Our nation is the world’s superpower, and we have every right to maintain global peace. Our intervention on Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Iraq, Yugoslavia, and now Afghanistan have been justified because we are the superpower, because we not only need to intervene, but because we should. I do not believe that the West Bank, a small strip of land, is any different. Two leaders have come to no understanding in the past decade, although President Bill Clinton’s tireless efforts have decelerated the hate attacks to a certain degree. My idea is radical, and it would work. Send in a massive Air Assault team, batches of battalions, over West Bank, Rangers leading the way, the 101st AirAssault Division providing Infantry cover. Bring in the Airborne Field Artillery, the Chinooks with tanks, the Apaches by the schools, the C130s overlooking the action. Special Forces would eradicate necessary targets proving to be a major ‘distraction’ prior to the beginning of the mission. Delta Force will walk through day and night providing satanic cover. Establish a base, a foundation, a virtual wall. Bring in the two leaders and the so called representatives of the nations to talk. If military from either side decides to try and intervene, act with rigor and no mercy and irradicate their offenses through various means. Meanwhile, bring in the Engineers. Rebuild houses, religious buildings, businesses; rebuild hopes and dreams of both nations… rebuild the common history of two nations with two different religions that could very well be worshipping the same God. Should anyone with a heart see these actions, no one would ever kill themselves in hopes of killing those of ‘the other side.’ Establish an understanding between the two nations, and leave troops in West Bank acting as peacekeepers. The original mission would call for a brigade or two from the AirAssault Division, switching off with another brigade or two from AirBorne 82nd Division every 3 months or so. The mission will start with about 20 to 50,000 American troops, and end within 18 months, dwindling in numbers down to about 5000 troops by the 12th month, mostly Rangers and a few batallions of Infantry and Support. By the 18th month, leave batches of Special Forces. And should it become necessary to intervene once again, bring back the Rangers. I just thought I should mention how it would be run, although most of it’s not too original except bringing in the engineers and the involvement of commercial business as well as the number of people involved.
This is of course unrealistic, and would cause global catastrophe based on the fact that we had no international right to intervene, which would also cause a chain reaction in parts of India and China as well as parts of Africa and Columbia, also in the Phillipines. But seeing how we have troops in countries where we’re not supposed to be anyway, why would it matter? Delta Force read about their actions in Columbia as an ‘earthquake’ that caused brushfire and mysteriously destroyed an entire village and its populace. Special Forces in Philipines are training soldiers, whose backgrounds beknowest to us would cause national catastrophe. Politics limits us to nothing more than witnesses through TV. But what then, could be established throgh politics? Certainly not the resurrection of lives lost. How much longer? How many more? One death is national news, but war eventually brings about numbers by the thousands that mean nothing but that: numbers. Soon, it’s about to become just that to most of politicians: numbers. But to far too many people living in hell everyday, those numbers build and strengthen vengeance with purpose to destroy. I don’t know about you, but that is not acceptable to me.