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2006-08-01 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

UN postpones meeting to plan new Lebanon force

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Posted by Steve White 2006-08-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 France is, indeed, angling (hard) to "lead" the new UNIFIL farce, er force. This is an excellent opportunity to both stall the process so Olmert can do his thing and to wring something out of France, though I admit I don't know WTF they have that we want. I'm sure Bush, Rice, and Bolton can come up with something interesting. France seems quite desperate to make this play and bolster their "Arab Creds". It will be after the Israeli deeds are done, so I don't know that it will pose a big problem - as long as there is some participant in the force that isn't on the take and will actually report shit for a change.

Posted by Thaque Ebbeth9552 2006-08-01 00:53|| 2006-08-01 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 O'REILLY on FNC continues to believe and insist that FRANCE had a significant role in both protecting Saddam from UN resolutions as well as in hiding Saddam's WMD assets in order to ensure Amer humiliation once the USA decided to mil enter Iraq ala IRAQI FREEDOM. Meanwhile, LEBANON'S ONLY REALISTIC HOPE FOR DEMOCRACY AND SOVEREIGNTY IS EITHER UNDER THE IDF OR A US-LED UN COM CAPABLE OF KOREAN WAR 1-STYLE MIL ACTION AGAINST THE TERROR GROUPS. Anything less only means new conflicts later on. IRAN is proceeding wid its ambitions for regional, later global, radical empire and domination. The Frenchies have gotta know that FRANCE = LEBANESE/SUNNI/NON-IRANIAN SHIA MUSLIMS, ETC. > ANY DEFEAT OR DESTRUCTION OF THE USA = ISRAEL DOES NOT MEAN THEY WILL BE SPARED OR TREATED AS EQUALS-PARTNERS BY THE VICTORS. Iff Syria + Iran see no borders between their nation(s) and Lebanon, why should they see between them and Paris = Europe??? Radical Islam defeating andor destroying "the Crusaders" from Spain to the ME = also "from the Entire/Whole World". Within the narrow, subjective context of Radical Islam = Islamofascism, iff the Failed Left is engaged in a GLOBAL SECULAR ANTI-DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT/
CAMPAIGN, Radical Islam = Islamofascism = engaged in a GLOBAL GOD-BASED ANTI-DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT/CAMPAIGN. The antithesis of Islamo-Fascism is Islamo-Communism/Islamo-Stalinism - HyperGovt, Commie "Permanent War/Revolution" = "Permanent Jihad", Centralism, and despotic Totalitarian Ultra-Conservatism. Islamification/Islamization is the new Cold War-era Sovietization, Maosification, Militarization and Communization-Stalinization. IFF SYRIA + LEBANON, ETAL. EXPECT TO STAY SOVEREIGN, NATIONALIST, AND INDEPENDENT, espec vv EMPIRE-CENTRIC IRAN, THEY NEED TO WORK WITH ISRAEL + USA-UNO, NOT AGAINST THEM.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-08-01 01:59|| 2006-08-01 01:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Did the French volunteer any soldiers or just generals and staffers?

Posted by Oldcat 2006-08-01 10:53|| 2006-08-01 10:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Joe
Prozac
Chill

Posted by john">john 2006-08-01 11:50|| 2006-08-01 11:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Actually, they're proposing to send a shipload of phone sanitizers, philosophy professors and toilet attendants first. The troops will follow later.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-08-01 12:31|| 2006-08-01 12:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Marketing execs, too, mojo? Someone needs to determine what colour the wheels should be!

Posted by trailing wife 2006-08-01 12:40|| 2006-08-01 12:40|| Front Page Top

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