what gets me is that this cannot have been totally unexpected by the Lebanese govt
- they cut off and declared illegal Hezbollahs communications network
- they pulled Hezbollah’s guy running airport security off the job. And by many accounts the airport was where Hezbollah was receiving most of its resupply
Lebanon was effectively cutting off Hezbollah’s comms network and resupply . . . they had to know Hezbollah wouldn’t just sit and take it?
and now it looks like the Lebanese gov and army are just rolling over . . . it just doesn’t add up. Stuff is going on we are not seeing
Stuff is definitely going on that we aren’t seeing - and probably has been for some time. This is getting very little coverage in the US press, I notice. I’ve read more about it in the Spanish press, but of course Spain is closer geographically to the ME and its time zone, so I suppose that’s not surprising.
Bush said he wouldn’t allow anyone to interfere with the Lebanese elections.
Either a silly bear walked right into a deliberate honeypot, or else Bush’s word ain’t worth much.
Keep those gas tanks full, an unpalatable spike in prices might be close at hand.
Any official US comments so far?