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2006-08-15 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Steve White 2006-08-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 STFU and sit down little man.

Posted by djohn66 2006-08-15 00:15|| 2006-08-15 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 ROFL.

Is there a more perfect example of the Mouse That Roared on the planet?

Back to your bunker, bitch.

Posted by flyover 2006-08-15 01:48|| 2006-08-15 01:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Syrian Army will resemble the Gorilla Army invading the "Forbidden Zone"...'cept this time there will be no Dr. Zeuss to stop the panic...POTA Rules! Syria Sucks! 40 year old Russian surplus not up to the task...

Posted by borgboy 2006-08-15 01:50|| 2006-08-15 01:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Assad > the Syrian people's only two choices vv Radical Iran is to either become a de facto future Iranian province, or be like like North Korea and pretend Beijing = Tehran doesn't control Syria, OR ANY OTHER ME/ME MUSLIM NATION(S) FOR THAT MATTER. Whatever good = bad your father did in life, IMO he was never for Syria or the Syrian people being controlled by any foreign nation. MadMoud-Mullahs may be Islamist, and Muslim, but they are NOT for any ME Muslim nation being uncontrolled by Tehran. Any defeat or destruction of Israel does NOT mean Syria, etal Muslim states get to keep their sovereignty.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-08-15 02:20|| 2006-08-15 02:20|| Front Page Top

#5 What Air Force was it again that buzzed his office a few weeks back? Wahhahahahaa.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-08-15 03:37|| 2006-08-15 03:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Where would this twerp be without Iran?

Where would we be without Iran?

Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-08-15 05:30|| 2006-08-15 05:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Assad, as long as you're playing "The Gimp" to Iran, you should know that just because they opened the zipper doesn't necessarily mean it's time for you to talk . . . .

Posted by gorb 2006-08-15 05:34|| 2006-08-15 05:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Destry Iran now.

Posted by SR-71 2006-08-15 05:41|| 2006-08-15 05:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Hear that, Olmert? Peace at any price? See what being considerate gets you?

Mebbe they really believe the Hizzies will blow it up again, and this is all part of the sinister Zionist plot....

Posted by Bobby 2006-08-15 06:18|| 2006-08-15 06:18|| Front Page Top

#10 I think we can all relax now that Syria has shown itself to be singularly inept militarily. They had a chance to attack Israel in Lebanon in the name of defending Lebanese sovereignty; they didn't. They had a chance to support Hezbollah where it counts when they needed it most; they didn't. They had a chance to attack the Golan Heights as Israel was waging a 2-front war; they didn't. Bunch of wimps.

Posted by Perfesser 2006-08-15 09:24|| 2006-08-15 09:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Syria is the lesser of the three stooges nowdays.

Posted by DarthVader 2006-08-15 09:27|| 2006-08-15 09:27|| Front Page Top

#12 Good points, Perfesser. I like it!

Posted by Bobby 2006-08-15 09:37|| 2006-08-15 09:37|| Front Page Top

#13 He may be right. Syria would get a victory like Lebanon. Not one stone atop another in the whole country when they come out of their bunkers.

Posted by RWV 2006-08-15 12:21|| 2006-08-15 12:21|| Front Page Top

#14 Assad: Well liberate Golan Heights

Damascus, after he tries...

Posted by BigEd 2006-08-15 16:35|| 2006-08-15 16:35|| Front Page Top

#15 That what I can't stand about this POS. Don't get me wrong I hate the hizzys, but I have more respect for them then I do this POS at least they took their beating and did fight, this POS just hid under his bed until the fighting was over.

Posted by djohn66 2006-08-15 16:40|| 2006-08-15 16:40|| Front Page Top

#16 Why is this moron still consuming oxygen? His continued existence is an affront to all decency.

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-15 17:49|| 2006-08-15 17:49|| Front Page Top

#17 He´s right now, it's nearer.
Peretz says he wants to negociate Golan. I dont stop to be suprised by Israeli Governemnt stupidity. So Peretz want to negociate from a weakned position...Brilliant!

Posted by Clerert Uneamp2772 2006-08-15 18:09|| 2006-08-15 18:09|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Aris Katsaris">Aris Katsaris 2006-08-15 18:22|| 2006-08-15 18:22|| Front Page Top

#19 somebody nail the doggy door shut - the vermin are coming in

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-08-15 18:27|| 2006-08-15 18:27|| Front Page Top

#20 Aris, I see nothing wrong with the comments you made. I might not agree with all of them, but nothing wrong with saying them.

I don't know if Syria would have been any easier to go into than Iraq. Assad was not the monster nor the visible regional threat that Saddam was at the time. Going into Lebanon and Syria would have required world buy in on the nation building exercise. That would have been a huge stretch.

Iraq has lots and lots of problems, of this there is no doubt. But Iraq also consumes lots of Iran's attention and resources. The mullahs aren't having everything their way there and the violence is relatively contained geographically. That one ain't over yet by any stretch.

Anyway, hindsight is easy. I would be interested to hear what you think should be done henceforth.

Posted by remoteman 2006-08-15 18:37|| 2006-08-15 18:37|| Front Page Top

#21 But I guess the moderators would not.

Posted by remoteman 2006-08-15 18:39|| 2006-08-15 18:39|| Front Page Top

#22 The mod who redacted that comment did not ban Aris. He is free to answer your question, providing he can do it without immediately, arrogantly and gratuitously insulting the whole RB community.

For my part, I think there were several very sound reasons for starting with Iraq, both in terms of the threat it presented and in terms of the potential for a hard-won new paradigm in the region. Others are of course free to differ, so long as it is done productively and without immediate insults.

Posted by lotp 2006-08-15 18:45|| 2006-08-15 18:45|| Front Page Top

#23 Give Aris an inch and the 100 comments are not far behind.:)

Posted by djohn66 2006-08-15 18:49|| 2006-08-15 18:49|| Front Page Top

#24 Well, the banning buttons still work if need be.

Posted by lotp 2006-08-15 18:49|| 2006-08-15 18:49|| Front Page Top

#25 But arrogantly and gratuitously insulting the whole RB community is what he does best.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2006-08-15 18:52|| 2006-08-15 18:52|| Front Page Top

#26 True.

Posted by remoteman 2006-08-15 18:55|| 2006-08-15 18:55|| Front Page Top

#27 Actually, Aris does pretty well for a Turk.

Posted by SR-71 2006-08-15 18:59|| 2006-08-15 18:59|| Front Page Top

#28 Unfortunately, Aris Katsaris has a history here. While he does make some good points, he tends toward a hectoring morality that blames the US in general, and Rantburgers specifically, for failing to achieve perfection on his terms. This is a shame, because he came here as a Greek college lad who really loved America and Americans, however unrealistically. Even serving his year as a draftee in the Greek Army post-PhD (in computer programming, I think) did not help him view the world more realistically. Fred banned him several times in the hope that giving him what essentially was a "time out" would calm him enough that he could take part in discussions without all involved going ballistic, but clearly he has chosen polarization. Google his name to find the weblog he kept for several years, and may yet for all I know, if you want to know more of his views, or search the archives beyond the past year. Aris is actually one of the earlier contributors to Rantburg, and he had interesting things to say about the Greek and European views on things until his carping became... unhelpful.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-08-15 19:08|| 2006-08-15 19:08|| Front Page Top

#29 He always conditions his bombast statements with ..."if we are attacked"

What a coward. If attacked, of course they would react (and lose)

Posted by Captain America 2006-08-15 19:47|| 2006-08-15 19:47|| Front Page Top

#30 Wow, I wonder who the Golden Rod modi is that nailed our western Turkey buddy.

Posted by 6 2006-08-15 19:57|| 2006-08-15 19:57|| Front Page Top

#31 New guy in town. Y'all be polite now, he's packin'.

Posted by lotp 2006-08-15 19:58|| 2006-08-15 19:58|| Front Page Top

#32 AB

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-08-15 19:59|| 2006-08-15 19:59|| Front Page Top

#33 the Golan Heights will be liberated by Syria.

To paraphrase the HAL9000 computer: "Without an Air Force, Bashar, I'm afraid you're going to find that rather difficult".

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-08-15 20:44|| 2006-08-15 20:44|| Front Page Top

#34 An obvious slip of the forked tongue. I think he meant to say "the souls of many Syrians will be liberated" on the Golan.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-08-15 20:46|| 2006-08-15 20:46|| Front Page Top

#35 Zippy into the ether again?

Posted by tu3031 2006-08-15 22:13|| 2006-08-15 22:13|| Front Page Top

#36 No with a dentist it has to be Laughing Gas.

Posted by 3dc 2006-08-15 22:34|| 2006-08-15 22:34|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Aris Katsaris 2006-08-15 18:22|| 2006-08-15 18:22|| Front Page Top

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