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| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| The Phony War |
| 2006-07-31 |
| July 31, 2006: The Hizbollah tactic of firing rockets from residential areas, and forcing civilians to stick around when the rockets are fired, has paid off. One rocket launching site in a large building in southern Lebanon, for which Israel released video of rockets being launched, before bombing the building, turned out to contain over fifty women and children. The civilians know that the Israelis bomb any place where rockets are fired from, but Hizbollah gunmen will force the civilians to stay. This has caused many Lebanese, even Shia in the south, to turn against Hizbollah. Some journalists have even been able to get out of Lebanon with pictures of this, but most of the world media prefers to call Israeli response to Hizbollah attacks a war crime and leave it at that. This is going to be one of those situations where, down the road, historians are going to wonder just what the world was thinking during all this. |
| Posted by:elbud |
| #8 Sad as it may seem, Hezbollah may just as well be doing all of us a favor. Assuming that they are not launching out of Christian or Druze neighborhoods, they are then merely chlorinating the Shia gene pool with their irresponsible launchings. As always, the faster these maggots expunge themselves and all their kin from the face of this earth, the better. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-07-31 17:42 |
| #7 "Assuming the histories aren't being written in Arabic." Exactly. History tends to be dictated by the side that wins. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2006-07-31 14:13 |
| #6 Does the hare nuke the turtose in the end ? |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-07-31 13:40 |
| #5 I've been reading that volume of ancient inscrutable Western wisdom, known as Aesop's Fables, lately. The fable of the tortoise and the hare comes to mind in this instance. |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2006-07-31 13:30 |
| #4 Re #2: Only genuinely evil people would force their own women and children to take a bullet for them. What makes you think it's their women and children? It certainly could be Christian, Druse, or even Jewish folk, yes? Or - "Hey, Mahmoud! Ya wanna git ridda your first wife and kids? Put 'em in the 'safe house' over there." |
| Posted by: Bobby 2006-07-31 13:18 |
| #3 Assuming the histories aren't being written in Arabic. That's what I'm worried about. One side puts everything it has in the fight and doesn't play by the rules (he subverts them instead, very successfully), while the other half-heartedly struggle back for one part, and actively collaborate for the other. Really, if this goes forth like that, I'm not betting on us, especially for old Europe which will probably end up part of the muslim world much earlier than its Enlightened Elites hope. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-07-31 13:00 |
| #2 The blood of innocents cover Hezbollah, and Iran/Syria. Only genuinely evil people would force their own women and children to take a bullet for them. It only confirms in my mind that we need to close Gitmo, and take no islamofascist prisoners. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2006-07-31 12:49 |
| #1 Assuming the histories aren't being written in Arabic. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-07-31 12:19 |