Posted on 07/16/2006 1:50:31 PM PDT by libstripper
July 16, 2006 -- JERUSALEM - Israeli airstrikes targeting Hezbollah strongholds pounded central Beirut yesterday as terrorist rockets continued to be fired back across the border - and Iranian involvement was exposed in the attack on an Israeli warship. Israeli officials charged that elite Iranian troops operating in Lebanon were involved in the Hezbollah offensive, and were responsible for firing an Iranian-made, radar-guided C802 missile - not the unmanned bomb-laden drone originally reported - that struck the warship on Friday, killing four sailors.
"There are Iranian officers belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard among Hezbollah and they operated the missile," said Israeli Vice Prime Minister and elder statesman Shimon Peres.
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Just when I thought you had reached the maximum level of nonsense you top yourself with that bit of strategic "genius".
So you are clueless as well as to the need for Muslim allies in Iraq and Afganistan.
Maybe he realized that after 140 years the War is over.
Not quite yet.
This is rat-killing. Clever comes first. Herding and cornering the rats. Kill 'em later.
But I agree with you, the little SOB's are trying to get their hands on the Paki arsenal, or ex-Soviet weapons, and go nuclear on us, and we can't be dicking around with open borders and business-as-usual at home any more if we don't want to lose a city. Which is becoming increasingly likely.
But don't hand them any allies they didn't have to work for. And remember that in the first place, all these terrorist heroes have sponsors. We'll have to deal with the Saudi sponsors eventually, but right now we can isolate the Iranians and the Syrians like we did Saddam and the Taliban, and go after them. I think that's exactly what is going on via the nuclear diplomacy vis-a-vis Tehran.
Keep in mind that the Iranians have active political relations with the North Koreans, too, and reflect on whether Chia Head's donging around with missiles, which came out of nowhere, isn't a grand-strategic move supporting the Iranian mullahs and their silent partners in Peking.
Our enemies are clustered around two poles -- Tehran and Peking. Remember where all the technology came from that we're worried about: the Koreans and Pakis got their nuclear technology from Peking (who got theirs from Wen Ho Lee and Bill Clinton, but that's another issue).
But it's Tehran we're squeezing now, so let's follow through and do it smart and do it right, and remember that declining to be a recruiting poster for the enemy is always a smart move. Don't hack off more Arabs that you absolutely, positively have to, while you remove the mullahs' hands and testicles -- and then their heads.
Letting Israel handle Hamas and Hisbollah for now is a smart play. We're after bigger rats.
I scare 'em too bad. They just ask what they can do for me.
I trust you were being sarcastic.
If not, next question?
AMEN!
I agree. That neighborhood requires it, because if you don't you cease to exist. It ain't Kansas.
I just cannot accept the praxis. Sorry.
Well will have to agree to disagree on this one, and part friendly-like here. Thanks!
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