Posted on 07/21/2006 7:58:43 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
Pity Lebanon: In a world of states, it has not had a state of its own. A garden without fences, was the way Beirut, its capital city, was once described.
A cleric by the name of Hassan Nasrallah, at the helm of the Hezbollah movement, handed Lebanon a calamity right as the summer tourist season had begun. Beirut had dug its way out of the rubble of a long war: Nasrallah plunged it into a new season of loss and ruin. He presented the country with a fait accompli: the "gift" of two Israeli soldiers kidnapped across an international frontier. Nasrallah never let the Lebanese government in on his venture. He was giddy with triumphalism and defiance when this crisis began. And men and women cooped up in the destitution of the Shiite districts of Beirut were sent out into the streets to celebrate Hezbollah's latest deed.
Iranian Theocrats
It did not seem to matter to Nasrallah that the ground that would burn in Lebanon would in the main be Shiite land in the south. Nor was it of great concern to he who lives on the subsidies of the Iranian theocrats that the ordinary Lebanese would pay for his adventure. The cruel and cynical hope was that Nasrallah's rivals would be bullied into submission and false solidarity, and that the man himself would emerge as the master of the game of Lebanon's politics.
"The hotels are full in Damascus," read a dispatch in Beirut, as though to underline the swindle of this crisis, its bitter harvest for the Lebanese. History repeats here, endlessly it seems. There was something to Nasrallah's conduct that recalled the performance of Gamal Abdel Nasser in the Six Day War of 1967. ...
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Wouldn't it be nice if Condi thought Iseral needed a batallion of marines to see this thing through...
No, it wouldn't.
Hes right, its their battle. No Marines. Its heartbreaking that they have to war again . But courage comes after heartbreak. It is what we do after falsehope that determines who we are.
Your kidding right???
No. I would say yes if the USA were to have the policy that I think should be used..its totally imperialistic. If we were to invade the Muslim lands and slaughter or exile them and like Romans conquer them, claim the lands and resources as ours then I wouldn't care about the appearancwe of US/Israeli soldiers together as a unit. BTW , thats what I would do if I were in charge...the oil is too important to be left under the governance of muslims. But as it is, trying to "democratize" Iraq and Afghanistan, we can't do it because it'd be a recruiting gift to the AQ/Iranians. Its all halfassed and thats why its so hard.
If the Israelis could defeat Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and others in 67' and 73' they can take care of Hezbollah.
[Wouldn't it be nice if Condi thought Iseral needed a batallion of marines to see this thing through...]
Wouldn't it be nice if President Bush thought Iseral needed 2 batallions of marines to see this thing through...
[I would say yes if the USA were to have the policy that I think should be used..its totally imperialistic. If we were to invade the Muslim lands and slaughter or exile them and like Romans conquer them, claim the lands and resources as ours...]
Israel needs to keep every inch of land it conquers and set up Israeli government to bring peace to their land and a better way of life for the destitute inhabitants of islmaic terrorist despot nations, Lebanon needs to be Israel's land so the real threat of Iran and Syria can be faced.
As for America, every land it conquers needs to have American Constitution government set up with the Bill of Rights {the first 10 ammendments of our American Constitution) instituted so there can be peace in Arab countries. This would mean liberal leftists would have to be sent back to the nations their forefathers came from.
Christian nations are strong nations, and they are bible believing nations since our King and Lord and Saviour Jesus arose from the dead, Catholics are not Christians as they do not believe God and His Word.
hey thanks for the heads up about catholics, I'll have to keep an eye on myself from now on...oh, and thanks for remembering to capitalize Catholics...sign of respect
wouldn't it be nice if President Bush thought our borders needed 2 batallions of marines..
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