Hezbollah may have overplayed its hand

Toronto Star ^ | 7/14/06 | Mitch Potter

[LibWhacker]

If the first fumigation doesn't kill all the cockroaches in my house, I'll gladly have it done again, inconvenient and unpleasant as it is.

[bnelson44]

Anyone see any similarities between what is happening today and what happened prior to WWII?

[Slings and Arrows]

Hezbollah may have overplayed its hand

[phoenix0468]

Hezbollah may have overplayed its hand

Was this headline written by Captain Obvious?!?

[phoenix0468]

[quantim]

More like suicide. An act more really ought to think through before attempting.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Victor Davis Hansen was on the John Gibson show and he compared it to the period in the 1930's....it was a very somber moment.

[Cyclopean Squid]

Hezbollah's Hand:

[Mr. Mojo]

Arab-Muslim pride is paramount. Scan the Arab press response to Wednesday's cross-border abductions of two Israeli soldiers and you will soon get the idea.

Imagine feeling cultural pride about a terrorist organization conducting a successful kidnapping! Arab-Muslims -- a sicker, more pathetic bunch would be impossible to fathom.

[Bean Counter]

May have overplayed it's hand??

there's the understatement of the year...

[rlmorel]

Ya think???

[Mr. Mojo]

There is a huge gamble involved in Hezbollah's play — the bet that sooner or later Israel will submit to its ransom demands, as it has done in the past, and leave the group's Beirut-based leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah as the saviour of Arab dignity.

Wishful thinking on steroids. There's a far greater chance that Nasrallah will be dead by the time I finish typing this sentence.

[M Kehoe]

I'm wondering, has anyone told all the Arab nations, and all the non-Arab nations in the world who are Muslim, that they will never amount to anything on the world stage (except for terrorism of course)? Someone with compassion, like a liberal...socialist...democRAT should brief them.

5.56mm

[Screaming_Gerbil]

Anyone see any similarities between what is happening today and what happened prior to WWII?

Victor Davis Hansen was on the John Gibson show and he compared it to the period in the 1930's....it was a very somber moment.

I didn't catch that, and don't understand comparing the present situation to the pre-World War 2 period... Care to enlighten me?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Short answer....Europe is paralyzed....The Left here has basically got the Republicans....being very cautious...no real World Leader taking on Iran....much like the situation was with Hitler....he explained much better than I did...of course we now have the UN..../barf.

[Screaming_Gerbil]

OK Thanks.

[RasterMaster]

I suggest Israel practice restraint while dealing with these poor hezbullah fellows...












......hold 'em down while you kick the $hit out of them!

[Daaave]

Beirut-based Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan "Nasrallah does not want an all-out war." Mitch Potter, Toronto Star

"Hizbullah leader declares all-out war on Israel" Middle East Times

"Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah declared July 14 that Hezbollah would strike "beyond Haifa and what is beyond, beyond Haifa" in an all-out war against Israel." Strategic Forecasting Inc.

"Nasrallah says ready for 'open war' with Israel" Jerusalem Post, Israel

[Daaave]

Correction: "Nasrallah does not want an all-out war." was wrongly attributed.

The quote is from Eyal Zisser, dean of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University.

[thoughtomator]

Yeah a lot of this article is left wing western "thinking".