Posted on 07/22/2006 10:00:11 PM PDT by AZLiberty
The real issue is who will set the agenda for the Middle East: Iran or America?
"Damn the torpedos! Full speed ahead!"
'the sun of Islam'
Soon to be in total eclipse.
This may explain some of the destruction we've seen this week. If Israel has the list of Hezbollah properties, I'm sure they know what to do.
And that would be the end of him.
Better put extra heavy duty reverse gear in the tank transmissions:
France Offers To Take Part In Lebanon Peacekeeping Force
Easy Bourse | Saturday, July 22, 2006 | Dowjones
Posted on 07/22/2006 11:08:58 PM EDT by MinorityRepublican
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1670706/posts
from the Party of Treason:
Senate Democrats Call for Special Envoy to Middle East (Barf Alert)
U.S. Newswire | 7/21/06 | Harry Reid & Joe Biden
Posted on 07/22/2006 11:31:46 AM EDT by conservative in nyc
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1670458/posts
"It has become increasingly clear that the Bush Administration lacks a comprehensive diplomatic strategy for the current crisis. With Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice occupied by challenges ranging from Iraq to Iran to North Korea, the Senators believe someone must begin putting together the pieces of a political settlement."
The militia is said to be armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles and an Iranian rapid-fire gun initially modelled on the Israeli Uzi. The party’s crown jewels, however, are an estimated 14,000 rockets and missiles shipped in from Iran over the past six years. Most of these are modified versions of the Soviet-designed Katyusha. The party also has some Chinese-made Silkworm missiles for special use in naval warfare. "The Israelis would be foolish to think they are dealing with nothing but a bunch of mad fanatics," says a former Iranian diplomat now in exile. "Hezbollah in Lebanon is a state in all but name: it has its territory, army, civil service and economic and educational systems."
Dems...'party of treason'. Appalling, unthinkable, but it's reality.
They left out Israel.
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I'm so tired of all this islamic bullsh#t. tired of trying to make it conform to rationality. it doesn't. Israel's intelligence came to this conclusion some time ago: they're nuts, it's impossible to understand them.
Sorta sounds like a marriage I'd heard of once...
Important article about Hezbollah
The thing is, it's not "God's Army", it's "Allah's Army"...
Yeah, the thing the author said, I thought he was talking about the army of Jesus when He comes back as described in Revelation 20 in the Bible.
That's a pathetic letter from Reid and Biden to the President. It's right out of Bill Clinton's slick, deceptive tactics from the 1992 election: 1) blame the current administration for all the problems in the world, 2) make vague criticisms but offer no specific alternatives and no alternative plan that could in turn be criticized, and 3) feed this BS to mind-numbed liberal robots in the treasonous MSM who then use it to attack the President. When will these sleazy senate democRATs learn to do what's best for America instead of taking cheap political shots at the President for the short-term benefit of their dreadful democRAT party?
Good article with a very thorough history of Hez.
As for who will set the agenda, I don't think Israel is really interested in doing that. The Muslims hate Israel and make all sorts of wild charges, but Israel is not interested in dominating the ME or doing more than living its own life in peace. Israel is not a superpower and is not involved in much outside its own region.
Iran wants to be a superpower, controlling the Islamic world rather than individual states, and is using Hezbollah as its advance force. We, on the other hand, cannot permit Iran to do this, because controlling the ME also means controlling Muslims, and anyone who controls the Muslim world has a supra-national, aggressive, conquest-driven ideology at their service. In other words, if Iran gets control of the ME, no one is safe in any part of the world.
well, is it splitting hairs or stating the obvious to say that Israel influences the Middle East by spanking the unruly children that inhabit it from time to time? It's a benign sort of influence.
Oh, I agree, it does influence it. I just meant that in many ways, Israel (contrary to Muslim thought on the matter) simply wants to exist and is not out to take on the entire region or make any significant changes except those that will guarantee Israel's safety.
We, on the other hand, represent the opposing force to world Islam, of which Iran considers itself or wants to be the leader. Granted, we have not come out and said as much, but I think that is partially because we are just beginning to realize it and to be able - if not yet willing- to name the enemy. Better late than never, I guess. Hopefully, not too late.
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