THE IDF FORCE OF ISRAEL NEEDS A GEORGE PATTON

BEING A LIFE LONG REPUBLICAN WHOSE ONLY STRAY FROM THE PARTY OF LINCOLN WAS MY VOTE FOR PRESIDENT JOHN KENNEDY. I HAD A PROFOUND DISLIKE FOR PRES. ROOSEVELT,BUT UPON REFLECTION HE WAS PROBABLY ONE OF WARS BEST PRESIDENTS. HE HAD THE FORESIGHT TO ALLOW HIS GENERALS TO FIGHT THE WAY THEY THOUGHT WAS BEST TO WIN THE WAR. HE DIDN'T LISTEN TO SYNCOPHANT DIPLOMATS AS APPARENTLY HAVE PRES. BUSH AND PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL OLMERT.
IN TODAYS JERUSLEM POST THERE IS AN ARTICLE THAT INCLUDES COMMENTS FROM HIGH RANKING GENERALS THAT DECLARE "SINCE THE FIRST DAY OF THE WAR AGAINST LEBANON HIZBOLLA TERRORIST, THE POLITICIANS HAVE HELD BACK THE IDF FROM USING THEIR GROUND BATTLE PLANS AGAINST HIZBOLLA". ONCE THE POLITICIANS GAVE THE "GO AHEAD" TO THE IDF INCURSION INTO SOUTHERN LEBANON THE UNITED STATES POLITICIANS PLAYED THEIR "TRUMP CARD", STOPPING THE IDF IN ITS TRACKS.
THESE SAME GENERALS STATED FURTHER THAT NOW THAT THEY ARE NO LONGER MOVING FORWARD THEY ARE TARGETS OF MORE HIZBOLLA ANTI-TANK ROCKETS RESULTING IN 35 TANKERS KILLED THIS WEEK WHILE THEY WERE SITTING DUCKS!
ACADEMIC HISTORIANS HAVE NOT BEEN KIND TO GENERAL PATTON BECAUSE HE WAS A "HE-MAN" GENERAL, AND IN TODAYS MOMMY DOMINATED WORLD ONLY "SHE MAN" GENERALS SEEM TO BE ACCEPTABLE. IT IS APPROPRIATE AT THIS TIME TO REMIND READERS OF THIS BLOG WHAT PATTON HAD TO SAY ABOUT FIGHTING A WAR. ONE OF THE GREATEST MOTIVATING, PLANNER, TACTICIAN AND STRATEGEST THE ARMY HAS EVER PRODUCED HAD THIS TO SAY.
"AMERICANS WILL NOT TOLERATE A LOSER, AMERICANS PRIDE THEMSELVES AS BEING "HE-MEN". NEVER FIGHT A BATTLE UNLESS YOU WILL GAIN BY WINING, LIVE FOR SOMETHING RATHER THAN DIE FOR NOTHING. IN CASE OF DOUBT, ATTACK AND NEVER LET THE ENEMY PICK THE BATTLE SITE! THE ONLY THING TO DO WHEN SOME S-- OF A BI--- LOOKS CROSS EYED AT YOU IS TO BEAT THE HELL OUT OF HIM, WAR IS SIMPLE, DIRECT AND RUTHLESS, AND YOU ARE NEVER BEATEN UNTIL YOU ADMIT DEFEAT. THE ONLY TACTICAL PRINCIPAL WHICH IS NOT SUBJECT TO CHANGE IS TO USE THE MEANS AT HAND TO INFLICT THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF WOUNDS, DEATH AND DESTRUCTION ON THE ENEMY IN THE LEAST AMOUNT OF TIME" A LOT OF WORDS, BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS WHEN YOU GET INTO A FIGHT ,FIGHT TO WIN. IF ONLY THE WARRIORS WOULD BE ALLOWED TO WAGE WAR WITHOUT THE PINSTRIPED PANTS BOYS GETTING IN THE WAY WITH THEIR DIPLOMATIC HYPOCRACY!! YES THE GOVERNMENT DECIDES WHEN TO WAGE WAR, BUT ONCE THEY DO THAT, THEY MUST STEP ASIDE OR EXPECT DISASTER.