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2019-06-25 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Hezbollah is now giving orders to Syria’s army – and using it to spy on Israel

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Posted by trailing wife 2019-06-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
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#1 I spent hours giggling like a fool just because of that first photo. It is so symbolic and fitting. This collation of related reportage and unfettered writing is what is missing from modern journalism, or a number of problems could be solved. Fred and you are geniuses. I love Rantburg. There's just no other place like it. ☺

Posted by Dron66046 2019-06-25 03:07|| 2019-06-25 03:07|| Front Page Top

#2 re: #1 ^^^ Times 1000 at least.

Posted by AlanC 2019-06-25 09:02|| 2019-06-25 09:02|| Front Page Top

#3 There's just no other place like it. ☺

An unequaled collection of knowledge, experience, and common sense perspectives.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-06-25 09:09|| 2019-06-25 09:09|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Frank G 2019-06-25 10:12|| 2019-06-25 10:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Truly, Dron66046. When you have a little time, take a stroll through the archives. There’s a link at the bar across the top of the main page.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-06-25 10:30|| 2019-06-25 10:30|| Front Page Top

#6 I do, TW. The archives only recently opened for me. I'm reading Fred's excellent analyses from 2001 on down. It's like a chronicle of all that has happened since to get us where we are.

Seen in this way, following events, organizations, persons of interest, the changing modalities of media and their compulsions... it provides a gestalt of the essential condition of today, especially in parts of the world where things matter significantly enough to affect all the other parts. Stripped of rhetoric and partisan nuance, with irony and the humor that stems from the necessity of our condition dripping from every report - it's journalism pure and simple.

It's amazing what you've done. It's unfortunate that the fashionably 'woke' and obsessively unreasonable progressives will never partake of this and never understand. There was a lot here they could learn.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-06-25 14:56|| 2019-06-25 14:56|| Front Page Top

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