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How Lebanon was lost
CarolineGlick.com ^
| 5/12/08
| Caroline Glick
Posted on 05/12/2008 11:55:45 AM PDT by Dawnsblood
AFTER THE war, the US was given an opportunity to actually support democratic, anti-Iranian-Syrian forces in Lebanon by supporting the Saniora government when Hizbullah abruptly bolted the ruling coalition and backed by Iran and Syria attempted to take control of the government by assassination and terror.
The US could have taken action against Syria or Iran. But instead it sought to appease Iran and Syria in the hopes that they would temper their support for insurgents in Iraq. The pinnacle of this US abandonment of the March 14 movement was Rice's decision to invite Syria to participate in her peace confab at Annapolis last November.
Both the US and Israel's silent acquiescence to Iran's takeover of Lebanon through Hizbullah complements their acceptance of Iran's takeover of Gaza through Hamas.
Again, in an effort to hide the failure of their signature policy of withdrawing IDF forces from Gaza and expelling 10,000 Israeli civilians from their homes in Gaza and northern Samaria in 2005, the Olmert-Livni government has refused to take action against Hamas's Iranian backed regime in Gaza. Then too, just as it protected Hizbullah during the 2006 war by siding with Saniora, who was then keeping house with Nasrallah, so too, today, the US protects Hamas by siding with Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas who kept house with Hamas until Hamas threw him out of the house last summer and who has been desperately seeking to reunite with Hamas ever since.
With Egypt's Intelligence Minister Omar Suleiman's visit to Israel Monday, the Olmert-Livni government exposed the depth of its recognition of the Hamas regime in Gaza. Suleiman came to present the government with the ceasefire agreement Egypt has negotiated with Hamas.
(Excerpt) Read more at carolineglick.com ...
TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abbas; bushsfault; druze; fatah; hizbullah; lebanon; middleeast
To: Dawnsblood
Another Bush-Rice screw-up.
To: Dawnsblood
We lost Lebanon when we pulled out the Marines without retaliation for the brutal and cowardly barracks bombing.
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posted on
05/12/2008 12:01:40 PM PDT
by
SlowBoat407
(It's a fine line between Guardian Angel and Stalker.)
To: LowTaxesEqualProsperity
Another Bush-Rice screw-up Almost as bad as the Reagan-Haig screw-up after 1982 when it was Christians that we left in charge to be slaughtered by the Syrians.
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posted on
05/12/2008 12:07:20 PM PDT
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: LowTaxesEqualProsperity
Couldn’t agree more. Lebannon and Gaza are both FUBAR due to the appeasement policies of terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas by the Bush and Olmert administrations. Lebannon in control of Iran’s proxy army is a disaster that was preventable. The war on terror is a freaking joke now.
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posted on
05/12/2008 12:07:44 PM PDT
by
Proud_USA_Republican
(We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
To: Dawnsblood
One of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing, under the same circumstances, over and over again, and expecting a different outcome each time.
I would love to ask someone in Washington, DC, to name one time, just a single example, of where we capitulate to the demands of middle-eastern dictators and out of gratitude to the US, they actually do what we would like.
Mark
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posted on
05/12/2008 12:11:30 PM PDT
by
MarkL
To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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posted on
05/12/2008 12:13:44 PM PDT
by
SJackson
(It is impossible to build a peace process based on blood, Natan Sharansky)
To: MarkL
"I would love to ask someone in Washington, DC, to name one time, just a single example, of where we capitulate to the demands of middle-eastern dictators and out of gratitude to the US, they actually do what we would like."
It doesn't work, ever, for our national policy but it works just fine (sarcasm) on an individual level: "Arabist" lackeys in the Dept. of State do the bidding of the Saudis -- then retire and get cushy jobs as payoffs. So for the calculations of the average State Dept. Arabist it works like this: "please the Saudis now, as much as I can within the confines of US domestic political pressures, and I will be very well rewarded after I take my govt. pension and hit the consulting/lobbying/foundation circuits."
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posted on
05/12/2008 12:49:52 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Obama: My 1930s Foreign Policy Goes Well With My 1960s Social Policy!)
To: SlowBoat407
Are you trying to say that barracks bomber shouldn't have been considered a prototypical John F'n Kerry criminal to be pursued, as we learned through the Khobar Towers experience, by our apolitical FBI?
After all, the FBI had lots of experience pursuing allegedly criminal bombing suspects, having been relocated under the DOJ wing already three years since Waco by the time that Khobar Tower delinquent mischievously parked his tanker next to that fence!
/s
HF
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posted on
05/12/2008 1:02:27 PM PDT
by
holden
To: Dawnsblood
So, at what point does Civilization draw the line, at what point does it sink in that the era of Chamberlain has run its course, has been over for some time, at what point does the "epiphany" reveal itself, at what point do we respond to the "Invasion of Poland" moment a moment History has time and again demonstrated will soon be foisted upon is, whether we are ready or not?
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posted on
05/12/2008 1:52:18 PM PDT
by
freerepublic_or_die
(Islam:Truly the opium of the morons with apologies to Karl Marx)
To: holden
"Are you trying to say that barracks bomber shouldn't have been considered a ..." Whatever you do, don't use his middle name.
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posted on
05/12/2008 3:37:48 PM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
("Surely you can't be serious!" -- I am serious, and don't call me surly.)
To: Dawnsblood
The heroic Caroline Glick nails it again. There's no more independent Lebanon. The U.S and Israel continue to pretend it exists for reasons of political convenience. In truth, that country is now a Levantine outpost of Iran. Hezbollah is calling all the shots there. To say its a foreign policy disaster is the understatement of the 21st Century.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
05/13/2008 8:09:45 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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