Name:ProudAmerican912 Country:United States State:Texas Metro:Houston Birthday:1/8/1988 Gender:Male
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Heres a video I found that should give you some kind of look into just how amazing the Israeli Air Force is at its job. Its a clip from a EA product, but the historical numbers are solid and unbending.
And heres a little more info about their history.
1948: Israel becomes an independent nation, and is all at once invaded by Egyptian, Syrian, Transjordanian, Lebanese, and eventually Iraqi forces. They invaded even though the lands that were the Israeli state at that time were lands in which Jews held the majority of the population, and Israel was not in Gaza or West Bank. Israel fought for its own life until a armed truce was signed agreed to be enforced by UN forces.
1956: Egypt's nutty leader Gamal Abdul Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal which futher alienated him from the British, Americans, and French, and raised fears that the arab nations were again planning to invade. Israel launched an air raid into Sinai which was reinforced by a anglo-french assault along the Suez Canal. A cease-fire was then signed that was promoted by the UN with the support of the United States and the Soviet Union. Through this conflict Israel had won Gaza and Sharm el Sheikh a place of strategic importance because it sits on the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba. Israel pulled back and gave control of these areas away to the United Nations.
1967: The infamous 6 day war in which Israel's economic trade lines were blockaded by the Egyptian navy which forced Israel to defend itself with an amazing blow to Egypt, committing nearly all of the IAF to hitting Egypt's airfields in Sinai and elsewhere. In 100 minutes the IAF carried out 164 sorties and destroyed Egypt's ability to make war through the means of its non existant air force which lost 420 combat aircraft and a third of their pilots, while the IAF lost only 9. Jordan then attacked Israel and was followed by Syria who began shelling Israeli settlers while the Jordanians were shelling residential neighborhoods and hospitals in Jerusalem. Jordan was brought to its knees, Syria's military was beaten down and lost control te Golan Heights, Algeria sent in fighters to aid Egypt against Israel, and Jordan's air force was destroyed other than a few planes which made it to Iraq's H3 airfield that was later decimated. The war ended with Israel gaining the Sinai, Gaza, Golan Heights, and West Bank and the arab nations embarrassed.
1973: The Yom Kippur War which began with a massive invasion of Egyptian forces moving across the Suez Canal, and Syrian forces advancing on Israel from the other direction. At first the assault was successful until the Israelis awoke from their slumber and pushed the Egyptians back across the Suez Canal and several miles inland off of it and pushed the Syrians back further than where they started from. Israel then gave up its territorial gains to Syria, and its gains on the Suez to the UN and was deemed a UN cease-fire zone.
1982: Known to some as Peace for the Galilee was only launched after palestinian guerillas launched an air raid on Israel. Israel responded with sending in troops to destroy all PLO military bases (terror training camps) in Lebanon where the air raid came from, and to also attack the Syrian forces in the area supporting them. The IAF shot down 80+ Syrian Migs with 0 losses. The PLO was then forced to evacuate to several other arab countries that would have them, and to this day Syria and its hordes of its funded and trained Hezbullah terrorist now control the majority of Lebanon.
And now the arab brotherhood of nations other than Iran are just sitting back and watching Lebanon get pounded by Israel because of its inability to get terrorist groups and camps under control. This is what they get for allowing terror groups to use their nation as a staging ground for more attacks on Israel. Sources... Wikipedia, infoplease, Alan Dershowitz, and Michael B. Oren. Sorry for that I love this stuff.
Ladies and Gentlemen... I regret to inform you that LeftWingFlyer is no more lol Im not going to say its a result of what went on last week, but he was without a doubt humiliated here, and then stopped his site. I think this is pretty damn funny is all Anyway, ive got less than a month before im gone... adios
Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid - Ronald Reagan
I
apologize, I only had a chance to breeze this, as I am off to work
shortly. From what I did get, I can say, I dont tottaly agree, but I
will give you credit, because it is very well writen.
But your first paragraph. In there you say "barbaric Regimes". What
makes them barbaric, and what gives you the right to decide who is and
who is not barbaric? How can you know for sure that we are not the
barbaric ones, that there way of life is not better? The word Barbaric
should never be used in any political essay. Because the word barbaric,
is nothing more than you rating your culture above another.
Are you kidding me??? Iran: Still has public hangings, flogging, and gives children the death penalty.
Iraq: Saddam killed millions of innocents for no reason other than paranoia, had torture chambers, and rape rooms.
Afghanistan:
The Taliban stoned women for showing ankle, blew up Buddist statues,
and killed men over no having a beard long enough.
Im sooo sorry I have called evil out for what it truely is, and you cannot handle that. Im sooo sorry that you dont see those regimes as barbaric and brutal to their citizens.
Pinko Kid Responds...
Wow..your
real smart *chokes*. Who classifs barbaric. To some countries, the way
we execuct prisoners is barbaric. The way we burn fossil fuels is
barbaric to countries like brazil. But yet, you would say we are more
civilized than many of these nations, i assume. Barbaric is a CHILDISH
word. And if you think i have to grow up....you need to find a tall
building..and get to the top, and than the bottom really quickly.
Btw...slander is illegal. You are currently voilating the law. You have 3 days til monday to correct this voilation.
Right so barbaric is a childish word, how many children have you ever met that knew the word... or better yet how many times have you heard Tony Blair say it... I guess your calling Tony Blair childish now, wow.
Oh yeah, because our cars run on gasoline, that makes us on par with Saddam Hussein filling mass graves, Irans religious persecution, and genocide in North Korea... wow, you have opened up a new way of thinking for all of us childish thinkers out here with things like facts and logic. *Sarcasm, not Slander.... no need for a lawsuit hahaha
I wrote this sometime last March... I think im gonna post again sometime soon
The Threats We Face And The Challenges To Come
We live in some of the most dangerous years to ever
face mankind in all our existence. We are faced with countless numbers
of rogue, ruthless, and barbaric regimes who seek to rule over not only
their people, but the people of the free world with fear and tyranny.
Our enemies cannot defeat us on the battlefield so they resort to
tactics that we have not seen since the last days of World War 2 when
the Japanese, as a last ditch act of desperation began sending waves of
Kamikaze (Divine Wind) bombers on suicide missions against our forces
in the Pacific Ocean. The enemy we now face was ignored for years and
years until one Tuesday morning when they brought their ambitions to
our shores, and we had a man in office who wasn't going to just take it
anymore as we had throughout the 1990s.
Ronald Reagan once said "we're at war with the
greatest enemy to ever face mankind in his long climb from the swamps
to the stars, and its been said if we lose this war and in so doing
lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record that those who
had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening". Had that
same thing been said today it would still apply just as it did at the
height of the Cold War, with threats coming at us from morally bankrupt
nations like Iran, Syria, Venezuela, North Korea, and Cuba. Every one
of these nations has many things in common other than their mutual
hatred for America, their desires to rid the world of our great
country, and their brutal lack of respect for human life. Each and
every one of these nations is run by totalitarian dictatorships that
kill anyone who disagrees with them, or just anyone that they are
paranoid about just as Saddam Hussein, Stalin, Hitler, Mao Zedong, and
Mullah Omar did while in power.
This axis of evil men is far greater than the one
that was talked about in the months after 9/11 by our President George
W. Bush, but there is one other nation that is perhaps not an enormous
threat at the moment, but it is gaining strength at a rapid pace. Just
across the Strait of Taiwan sits the world's largest population, army,
and fastest growing economy: China, yet another nation that oppresses
its people by depriving them of the basic freedoms that we take
forgranted—freedom of speech; religion; a free press; the ability to
put forth an idea scoffed at by the experts and watch it prosper.
The Chinese have been growing their military with
the aim to become the superpower in the Pacific Ocean by becoming a
greater power than the United States. It is of great importance that we
do not allow the Chinese military to overshadow our own in the region,
programs like the F-22A, the JSF, Aegis Missile Defense, and plans for
next generation bombers and cruise missiles must be kept around to keep
us years ahead of the Chinese. One thing is clear, if the Chinese had
no challenger in the region, that region would be one of terror, the
people of Taiwan would be over taken, Japan would be bullied, and
American cities on the west coast would be at great danger. We must
stay ahead of the Chinese militarily, economically, and this requires
us to invest in new technologies to keep us ahead of them. The
astonishing capability of systems like the B-1, F-22A, Nimitz Class of
carriers, and the Aegis Missile Cruiser are what keeps us from having
to use them. Peace through strength.
The threats are clear, the road ahead is going to
be a rocky one without a doubt, but it's nothing we can't handle as
Americans. The solutions to these problems are much harder to figure
out than the things we know for sure are not the answers. We cannot
repeat the same mistakes we have repeated in the past, we must not
appease, must not retreat, and cannot allow our enemies to gain anymore
of the materials and know-how that could be deployed against American,
European, Israeli, Korean, Japanese, and Middle Eastern cities. We can
no longer wait to be hit by terrorists funded and trained by our
enemies, because sitting back and waiting to be hit will only yield one
result: More dead Americans, more blown up buses killing innocents, and
a world where tyrants, dictators, and the most evil men on Earth have
gained the upper hand as a result of our capitulation.
"Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" - Ronald Reagan
If I had to think of what I would like to teach others about my outlook on life it is simple. Keep your chin up, if its bad times your going through, have faith in the Lord to make things better, and the fact that things cant go on miserable forever. Life is never perfect, but that however does not mean that it is bad, things can always be better, but that doesnt make the times we go through bad. Things always get better, its just a matter of how far ahead your willing to look, the sun rises again over the horizon.
Enter Sandman
I like this vid, especially the part with the fighter pilot headbanging...
There is no peace in retreat, and there is no substitute for victory. Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive, and evil is powerless if the good are unafraid
