Everything I Know About The Middle East, I Learned In A Barfight
July 21st, 2006 at 2:47 pm by CrankyThis gem was found over at Hugh Hewitt. This serious and seriously insightful piece sheds light on the mindset that continues to lock the Middle East in the same destructive pattern.
All evening the Marine had been trying to pick a fight with one of us and had finally set his sights on this diminutive shipmate of mine… figuring him for a safe target. When my friend refused to be goaded into a fight the Marine sucker punched him from behind on the side of the head so hard that blood instantly started to pour from this poor man’s mutilated ear.
Everyone present was horrified and was prepared to absolutely murder this Marine, but my shipmate quickly turned on him and began to single-handedly back him towards a corner with a series of stinging jabs and upper cuts that gave more than a hint to a youth spent boxing in a small gym in the Bronx.
And then it gets really interesting.
July 21st, 2006 at 6:43 pm
Good Lord. This is sickening, but appropriate. Is it right to hit your enemy with everything you’ve got until they agree that they are wrong and vow to stop attacking? Of course it is.
I’ve no doubt that this is not a true story, but as a parable, it rings true. If it could somehow be worked into the story that the latino’s friends were getting hit by random punches by the marine, it would be even more accurate.
July 21st, 2006 at 7:41 pm
Kevin, in the comments the author asserts that it is a true story. The latino was a fellow Sailor (author was in the Navy).
July 21st, 2006 at 8:43 pm
Wow… all that needs saying.
Wow.
July 22nd, 2006 at 2:05 am
Send this to every moron who thinks we should be sitting at a table negotiating peace with these thugs.
The only solution is to squish Hezbollah like the cockroaches they are. Israel should keep beating the crap out of them until they no longer exist.
And if the US needs to help with a few well- placed bombs or missles, I’d have no problem with that either….
July 22nd, 2006 at 7:56 am
Beat them until they beg for mercy and admit defeat…
I’m late to the party on this one, but this story is the perfect analogy for what’s going on between Israel and Hezbollah/Lebanon. (Stein hoist – Six Meat Buffet)
When I was in the Navy, I once witnessed a bar fight in downtown Olongapo (…
July 24th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Waiting for Hezbollah’s “uncle”…
The violence between Israel and Lebanon continues unabated. And I keep hearing people say things like “Why doesn’t Bush call for a cease-fire?” So far, the President has resisted suggestions to step in and stop the fighting. And this morning, I read…
July 24th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
It showed up in the comments section of the local paper’s website a couple days ago…
So the idea is getting around.
July 25th, 2006 at 9:17 am
Let’em Fight Boys…
H/T to Six Meat Buffet for this one
David Bogner of Treppenwitz has a excellent post, based on a bar fight that he saw while in the Navy, about why the world has to let Israel and Hezzbullah / Hamas fight it out and not step in and try to mediate a …