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2008-05-12 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Hezbollah foiled US-planned coup. Really.

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Posted by Fred 2008-05-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
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#1 In 2006, the IAF/IDF waged a scorched earth offensive, where there were no UN partisans to prevent just war. Most of south Beirut and the city of Bint Jubeil was destroyed, and remains rubble. Hizbollah's Iranian backers restored their weaponry, arm for arm, while abandoning early efforts to rebuild. So why the rearmament? An Israeli contact of mine says that they thought that Iran would concede futility, and pull out. Unfortunately, what was not forseen - in face of US interventions in 1958 and 1982 - was US indifference to pro-Western peoples. Hence, the Ayaytollahs rearmed Hizbollah to the teeth, with the intent that they would occupy the untouched sections of north Beirut and northwards. Bush defered to Condi and whatever reason, she wants them alive at all costs. In the early 'eighties, the Reagan government was launching sea to land missile and shells at Hizbi positions; it appears that 60 year US allies are being written off. When American University (Beirut) goes, American credibility will go with it. Can we not just kill terrorists?

Posted by McZoid 2008-05-12 04:56|| 2008-05-12 04:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Bush defered to Condi and whatever reason, she wants them alive at all costs.

Condi has been a major disappointment.

Posted by Spumble Prince of the Brontosaurs8229 2008-05-12 08:13|| 2008-05-12 08:13|| Front Page Top

#3 the 60 year US allies are the Maronites, who are simply too few on the ground to run things. The demography has changed due to differential birth rates and emigration. now a Sunni-Druze-maronite coalition is needed to offset the Shia, and the Maronites arent even united (much less the other Christians).

So more subtlty is required.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-05-12 10:22|| 2008-05-12 10:22|| Front Page Top

#4 So more subtlty is required.

No, LH, subtle action is what has gotten us into this mess in the first place. What's needed is the constant fire of GMLRS into Hezbollah strongpoints, filled with white phosphorus, napalm, and high explosives, with a few nukes tossed in over Qom, Tehran, Bandar Abbas and Bushehr. That's the only message islamists understand - the power of the fist. We've foolishly refrained from showing that fist, and we're paying for it. Destroy a half-dozen cities, and the rest of the population will string the imams up themselves.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-05-12 16:40|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-05-12 16:40|| Front Page Top

#5 IRNA > LA TIMES - US HAS BUILT ARMED MILITIA IN LEBANON, to counter or oppose the Hizzies Hezzies Huzzies, etc. under the guise of SAAID HARIN'S FUTURE MOVEMENT organization. US REPORTEDLY SPENT US$60.0MILYUUHN TO CREATE THIS ANTI-HIZB/IRAN GROUP COMPOSED OF FORMER LEBANESE ARMY OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS. ARTICLE - Unfortunately for the US, most of the member-fighters of this FUTURE MOVEMENT MILITIA CRUMBLED AND FLED WHEN MIL ENGAGED BY HIZB???

ALso from IRNA > SYRIAN MINISTER: IRAN IS THE ISLAMIC-ARABIC [strong]CASTLE OF MUSLIM WORLD.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-05-12 19:37|| 2008-05-12 19:37|| Front Page Top

#6 no, you just kkill terrorists anymore . do you know what kind of apper work that leads too

Posted by sinse 2008-05-12 21:22|| 2008-05-12 21:22|| Front Page Top

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