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| The pretense is over: Hezbollah rules Lebanon |
| 2008-05-17 |
| Worse, Siniora backed down "on the suggestion of the army commander." Lebanon's army cannot and will not fight Hezbollah. When your army tells you bluntly to give the other side what they want, it is no longer your army. The 2005 "cedar revolution," which ended decades of Syrian military occupation, now stands revealed as merely a change of masters. Iran's Syrian client/partner was replaced by Iran's Hezbollah stooges, who also have the support of Lebanon's Shiites. The 2006 fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, mostly in southern Lebanon, demonstrated that the government had little sway over Hezbollah's strongholds. And now all of Lebanon, it seems, can be a Hezbollah stronghold, whenever that faction's masters flex their muscles. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 Why was it so easy to burn to death 200,000 Tokyo civilians, 60,000 Dresden residents, not to mention another couple of hundred thousand charcoaled citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Because it was toward the end of a brutal eight-year war in which the allies had 11.8 million civilian and 32.6 million military deaths? Makes sense to a moron. You said it, not me. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2008-05-17 23:07 |
| #7 Hizbollah is a recognized terror group, that has murdered hundreds of Americans. Therefore: make south Lebanon look like the Moon. Obstacle: support for the 2-state solution (cough) requires indulgence of all potential peace (cough) partners (cough). Makes sense to a moron. Why was it so easy to burn to death 200,000 Tokyo civilians, 60,000 Dresden residents, not to mention another couple of hundred thousand charcoaled citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Editorialists point to "values" when they plead for restraint: we aren't constrained by "values," but rather Jimmy Carter ideology. Shortsightedness is fatal in the GWOT. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2008-05-17 18:55 |
| #6 The Hezbies have all the power but none of the responsibility. Nice work, if you can get it. Hezb, Hamas...they're all heads of the Iranian hydra. Kill the body and the heads will die. Until then, both we and Israel will be fighting proxy wars against Iranian-backed terrorists. |
| Posted by: Thaimble Scourge of the Pixies4707 2008-05-17 18:21 |
| #5 Actually, Hesb'allah doesn't rule Lebanon. It controls it. Insurgencies (foreign-backed or domestic) don't want to rule; that means becoming the government. Much harder to carry out Iran and Syria's bidding when you're 'official'. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2008-05-17 14:43 |
| #4 Three cheers for "Nation Building". |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-05-17 07:04 |
| #3 Viva la Vichy France. |
| Posted by: Sninert Black9312 2008-05-17 05:53 |
| #2 TOPIX > JORDANIAN PROFESSOR [Ishmael Alloush] SAYS SUICIDE BOMBERS SHOULD USE NUCLEAR, NON-CONVENTIONAL BOMBS + JORADNIAN PROFESSOR SAYS SUICIDE TERRORISTS SHOULD USE NUCLEAR BOMBS AGZ ISRAEL'S DIMONA REACTOR; + IRAN'S DEFENSE MINISTER:ISRAEL IS TOO WEAK AND VULNERABLE TO ATTACK IRAN, + IRAN WILL STRIKE BACK IF ISRAEL ATTACKS SYRIA, HEZBOLLAH IN LEBANON. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-05-17 01:22 |
| #1 Compare wid JPOST > THE INSUFFICIENCY OF ISRAEL'S POROUS SOUTHERN BORDER. Mexico in Israel??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-05-17 00:46 |