To: wideawake
Someone should let him know at some point that taking out the airport was a strategic necessity. Not really. The Lebanese army doesn't operate any fixed wing aircraft. They don't need runways for helicopters.
19 posted on
07/13/2006 1:06:56 PM PDT by
Smogger
(It's the WOT Stupid)
To: Smogger
Not really. The Lebanese army doesn't operate any fixed wing aircraft. They don't need runways for helicopters.
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What about Syrian planes and hostage flights out to Iran by air?
To: Smogger
Yes, it was an important strategic move. This had nothing to do with the Lebanese army's capabilities.
51 posted on
07/13/2006 1:16:50 PM PDT by
NinoFan
To: Smogger
Not really. The Lebanese army doesn't operate any fixed wing aircraft. They don't need runways for helicopters. It's not about the Labanese army, rather preventing the resupply of Hizbollah as well as preventing the bad guys from leaving. Israel's two prisoners from being taken out of country as well. The ports are blockaded and the road to Syria under attack for the same reason.
54 posted on
07/13/2006 1:17:05 PM PDT by
SJackson
(The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do!)
To: Smogger
The Lebanese army doesn't operate any fixed wing aircraft.That's not the concern. The concern is hijacked commercial aircraft being used to smuggle kidnapped soldiers into Syrian airspace.
58 posted on
07/13/2006 1:18:20 PM PDT by
wideawake
("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
To: Smogger
Whether their military has an air force or not plenty of supplies and ammunition can be flown in on those same runways via "commercial" planes.
60 posted on
07/13/2006 1:18:48 PM PDT by
A Texan
(Oderint dum metuant)
To: Smogger
The Israelis apparently took out the airport to keep Hizbollah from flying the two kidnapped soldiers out to Iran.
To: Smogger; All
I think the bombing of Beirut airport was because of intel. the Israelis got that Hezbollah was trying to move out the kidnapped soldiers to Iran. They hit all possible transit points for doing this, the intl. airport, the Syrian-Lebanese highway, a Lebanese airbase, etc. All inconvenience to our Freeper friend notwithstanding, I understand the logic of it. If their soldiers disappeared into Iran, they could have kissed them goodbye.
80 posted on
07/13/2006 1:26:35 PM PDT by
MikeA
(Not voting in November because you're angry is a vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House)
To: Smogger
The Lebanese army doesn't operate any fixed wing aircraft.
It is not the Lebanese that they have to worry about.
To: Smogger
Not really. The Lebanese army doesn't operate any fixed wing aircraft. They don't need runways for helicopters. Hezbollah is a marionette of Syria and Iran, so fixed wing is a possibility.
162 posted on
07/13/2006 2:01:04 PM PDT by
MrEdd
(Bad spellers of the world - UNTIE!,)
To: Smogger
Someone should let him know at some point that taking out the airport was a strategic necessity. Not really. The Lebanese army doesn't operate any fixed wing aircraft. They don't need runways for helicopters.
----------------------- Per FNC or CNN - have been switching - earlier this afternoon there was a report, complete with video--Iran sends in a 747(very few markings) to Beirut, on an as needed basis, with assorted supplies/people for Hezbollah.
291 posted on
07/13/2006 4:28:12 PM PDT by
Tarheel
(Good fences make good neighbors--R. Frost)
To: Smogger
"Not really. The Lebanese army doesn't operate any fixed wing aircraft. They don't need runways for helicopters." I think the Israelis are trying to keep Syrian and Iranian assistance from arriving in Lebanon, whether in the form of terrorists or armaments, that's why they are isolating Lebanon from the rest of the world.
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