A Little Less Restraint Please

Let’s take a little step back and look at what’s been going on in Israel the past few years.

1) Israel agrees to the Oslo accords – Arafat gets something like 95% of the land area he wanted. What happens? The Palestinians go nuts and terrorism increases.
2) We in America then go nuts and Clinton sends over James Carville to get Netanyahu, of Likud, thrown out and Ehud Barak, a moderate, elected. The Likud party wasn’t restrained enough for us I guess.
3) More terrorism.
4) Ariel Sharon gets elected; this guy is the father of the settlement program on the West Bank and Gaza. Guess the Israelis got tired of the restraint thing.
5) Sharon feels a need to exercise some restraint so he goes and forcibly evicts his own people from Gaza at gunpoint. Dismantling the settlements he established. You want to talk about restraint?
6) The Palestinians are so happy. The land they have wanted ceded back to them for years is now theirs. They start setting up rockets on the border, just to celebrate.
7) The Palestinians show us a different kind of restraint by electing Hamas, a terror organization, to be their leaders.
8) This new kind of restraint works so well (face it, terrorism got them Gaza) then lets have more of it! So, now we have these jerks taking Israeli soldiers hostage in Gaza and Lebanon

Ok – so can we be done with all these idiots urging restraint and proportional response? That means you “every major European country” and also you, the utterly useless UN, and you, Condoleza Rice.
Restraint has never gotten anyone anywhere when someone has been dead set on their destruction. Can the actions outlined above be interpreted any other way? At this point I would think the only restraint to be urged should be for the rest of the world to stop urging restraint. I would simply say Israel has clearly had an act of war perpetrated upon it and its time to let them fight that war and win. Enough already with the restraint.