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Posted on 07/24/2006 10:53:04 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice salutes a US Marine as she walks towards a helicopter upon her departure from Beirut after meeting with Lebanese officials.
It was amazing, when I was there (mostly around Beirut) in 2000 right after the pull out in the south, there was one particular (and quite small) area that you'd hardly think you were in the same place as pretty much the rest of the city (or the country, for that matter). It was one of the first rebuilt after the war and was just gorgeous. It was the area the was the tourist geared area and so many people hardly ventured out of that...they had no clue that miles away it was power 4 hours on 4 hours off all day every day, intermittement water availability, buildings still in ruins and roads in shambles.
Beirut, even then, was a city of such contrasts! If you stayed in one area you'd really almost not know the rest was so different. I mean, all cities have some areas that aren't like the others, but this was like being in nearly any other big city's downtown restaurant/hotel area on one block, and being 20 years back in time, plus seeing the devestation from years of war in the other. People look at my pictures and don't always believe me they are in the same place at the same time!
On the days that the four hour block fell more smack in the middle of the afternoon (12pm-4pm) instead of the more preferable (8am-12pm, 4pm-8pm) schedule, we'd often plan an excuse to need to go downtown, or even just to the other side of town (the power alternated the schedules in different parts of the city, but it was always on in that central area downtown) so that we could find somewhere that might have power so there would be fans (or a/c if it was downtown!). Checked out lots of interesting places because of that :-)
Look at the map in 945...that IDF attack on the UN post is south of the Bekka Valley...Iranian and Hezzy terror central.....so it makes sense.
With Hizbollah getting the crap knocked out of it...
Will Syria and Iran jump in here to save their puppets?
Great, UNIFIL all over the damned place and they either didn't know or didn't care that they were surrounded by the Hezbo-Nazis with 13,000 rockets waiting to be fired at Israel. What exactly was UNIFIL supposed to accomplish in Lebanon???
I think that's a garbled translation of this story:
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/030905/2003090512.html
The Saudis have F16's in Tabouk, and have said they intend to leave them there.
I wish they would jump in (so that Israel would have an excuse to beat them to a bloody pulp), but somehow I suspect that even the Islamo-Nazis aren't quite that crazy..... maybe they'll surprise me, but I suspect they'll just cower in their bunkers and issue a few more denunciations of Zionism, Imperialism, and US evil hegemony.
The answer is yes - but through the usual less than overt channels. Unless our staunch supporters on the Left in the US or the UN don't help the Hezzies first.
Nope. Not a chance.
Not now. Not with U.S. armor on Syria's border...with U.S. ground forces on Iran's Western, Eastern, and Northern borders. Not with President Bush in Office.
These are all very powerful reasons why it mattered so much for our efforts to have succeeded in electing and re-electing President Bush.
Exactly. They should go home before more of them hurt themselves.
Bingo.
Remember the distances we are talking about are not that big.
We are talking 20 miles...tops.
OK....so they won't launch an overt attack...will they unleash the sleeper cells?
HEAR!! HEAR!!
If what we hear about Israel having at least another week to ten days ...I wouldn't doubt it..
I don't see how Hezbollah can be seen by the Arab world as LOSING this war with Israel.
" Just saw on NBC the Christian section of Beruit.
People going out to dinner, playing baccarat, lounging by the pool, etc. Not really caring about the war."
In our house, we call NBC-HezBC because they are a propaganda tool for anything anti American, anti Bush or anti Israel.
They've been bashing Israel non stop for the past two weeks. Tonight, they tried for a teeny bit of truth.
HezBC has talked non stop of the destroyed Lebanon-while their correspondents report from the beach area in front of dozens and dozens of high rises reminiscent of Miami Beach.
"The former Miss Lebanon, out tooling in her convertible Porsche, says she and others feel safe in Christian neighborhoods."
She went on to describe the two Lebanons- the " La Dolce Vita " side where the war does not touch them and the other side that supports Hezbollah.
Is any else watching Fox News Channel right now? Who is this "woman"?
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