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| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| The Region: As Lebanon turns into Gaza |
| 2008-05-12 |
| By Barry Rubin While America's secretary of state devotes her time to doomed Israel-Palestinian talks and America goes ga-ga over a candidate whose entire foreign policy strategy is to talk to dictators, yet another crisis is empowering radical Islamists and undercutting Western friends and interests. The Lebanese logjam has broken at last as Hizbullah seized Beirut and inflicted a major defeat on the government. Hizbullah is pulling a more limited version of Hamas's Gaza strategy in Lebanon as the world stands by. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 TOPIX > BUSH WARNS IRAN, SYRIA - LEBANON WILL NOT FALL TO THEIR PROXIES + BUSH VOWS US ASSISTANCE TO LEBANON's GOVT. AND ARMY. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-05-12 21:46 |
| #4 Why should the Lebanese Sunni, Druze, and Christian majority risk their lives when the West doesn't help them? Because it is their country and their grandchildren who stand to benefit if they do. |
| Posted by: Sninert Black9312 2008-05-12 04:06 |
| #3 Also from TOPIZ > CHINA WANTS TO RAISE FOOD IN TANZANIA. OUTSOURCED GLOBAL FOOD PRODUCTION + NUCLEAR JIHAD-TERROR > WHAT CAN POSSIBLY GO WRONG??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-05-12 00:51 |
| #2 ION TOPIX > AL QAEDA SETTING UP/IS IN NIGERIA. *"GAZA strategy ... as the world stands by" > IOW, DO NOTHING = ISLAMIST IRAN + RADICALISTS WILL LIKELY GET THEIR SHHHHHHHHHHHH STRATEGIC CAPABILITIES, ergo WORLD WILL ALOS LIKELY SEE RENEWED ALBEIT NUCLEAR JIHAD-TERROR AFTER 2012/13. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-05-12 00:48 |
| #1 Outside intervention in Lebanon won't happen because it is already too late. The only way out now is military force against Syria or Iran and that's not going to happen. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2008-05-12 00:16 |