Let's be clear about this ...
You are going to have to ignore the crap contained in and spewed out through the vast majority of US newspress and on the TV. This war is another of those really simple matters: Israel is defending itself because it has to.
Look, Hezbollah (hizb-Allah or whatever)is the aggressor. In 2000 Israel decided that it had to pull out of Southern Lebanon because of a variety of factors, but mostly beause of public and international opinion. Since that moment, the scumbags from Hezbollah have worked ceaselessly to entrench themselves by digging bunkers, stockpiling arms and ammunition and establishing MILITARY outposts among the civilian population of Lebanon.
Hezbollah is an independent army ostensibly reporting to Nesrallah, but more accurately doing the bidding of its masters and financiers in Iran. But Hezbollah has nothing really to do with the army of the republic of Lebanon. Nothing at all.
It is as if the people of the state of Maine decided that they needed an independent army, separate from the rest of the United States due to the fact their religion was "Down East." The Mainers then attack Canada, sending missile after missile raining into downtown Quebec because Maine has determined that ALL Quebecers need to die. In fact as the primary goal of the Down East Republic of Maine they have adopted the creed of the Ottowans: "kill Frenchy." Now all America really wants is to get on with life and selling stuff to the Quebecers, although they don't particularly like them, their semi-autonomous state, Maine, with its own army has declared war on Quebec. Hmmm. What to do. As the USof A is culturally Down East (similar to the Saudis, Gulfies and Shiites everywhere) they'd like nothing more than to see the demise of those dirty Frenchies. But... Then the world came to find out that the Mainers are in fact being funded by Ottowans. In fact the Grand Poobah of the Down East lodge is nothing more than an Ottowan stooge. So the Frenchies decide to invade Maine to steal some excellent Maple Syrup and most of all stop those Maniacs from shooting those damn missiles.
Is short, it is as predicted in this blog, an Iranian assault on Israel. Just using some proxies. The civilian deaths caused by this are not even worth thinking about in the schemes of Iran and Syria. Rather they are a propaganda BONUS. They get to show you pictures of "innocent" women and children being slaughtered by the evil Jews. Well, but for the fact that Iran/Hezbollah decided to hide among the civilian population just to provide protection and the inevitable propaganda that innocent deaths create, we'd be looking at a simple armed aggression and retaliation. Israel HAS got to complete on this. This is different than the Hamas/Gaza/West Bank deal. This is the direct unprovoked assault on its civilians by the stooges of a hostile culture/country which has stated publicly that Israel must cease to exist and all Jews die. And, by the way, the Holocaust was a lie. Oh sure, Hamas exists to kill all Jews too, but they are a joke and couldn't do much more than blow themselves up and fight amongst the other Palestinian factions. Hizbollah is quite different, it is a foreign trained, funded and highly efficient army. Dedicated too and responsive to the diktats of the Ayatollahs ... centralized command.
And yet, the left wing pundits in this country continue to cry out fo negotiations: WISE UP!!! There is no negotiation possible: the one side doesn't want territory, money or other goods and services. They want the other side to die. That does not leave a lot of room, or anywhere meaningful to start. Holding negotiations also presumes rational parties: Israel vacated Lebanon 6 years ago and all Hezbollah did was to arm against the next assault. Not exactly actions dedicated to peace. Nasrallah was proclaimed a "hero" for kicking out Israel. A hero in the Syrian controlled press. Shit, Goering was a hero too, in the Nazi press. This also poses one of those mysteries to me: why do Jewish people in the United States support causes that undermine the very existence of Israel (that would include the Democratic Party and the NY Times -- which in its frenzy to discredit Boosh and the US administration, conveniently ignore that they are in effect supporting a bunch of murdering zealots financed by Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollahs -- all for domestic partisan gain). By means of balancing out things, you can't just give cash to the JDL or some such and call it "quits" or "even". Howard Dean is not far removed from handing over the keys to Tel Aviv. That is, this IS an all or nothing gig and you have to look beyond your hatred of Boosh.
Friends, this is one of the opening salvos of the Fourth World War (the Third was the Cold War and we more or less won that one). For Iran this is a cheap way of causing the trouble they have been dying to make for years and they have calculated that they cannot lose, no matter what happens. Unless Israel succeeds in capturing some Iranians on Lebanese soil (and they will be better protected and further away from any risk than Nesrallah), this will be a conveniently ignored reality. Kofi Annan is a frikkin idiot - 'nuff said.
Israel will launch a full scale invasion as soon as enough reserves are called up. Then, if Iran or Syria is silly enough to escalate the conflict to preserve the lives of their heavily armed stooges, we will see real fireworks: Israel is betting that this exact scenario will come to pass and the general population is more or less on board with this as they realize that this IS an all or nothing gig.
Boosh and Blair get nothing but stick for refusing to call for a ceasefire. What, call a ceasefire so that the scuzzbags can rearm and regroup, only to more effectively provide resistance to Israel? And in Israeli eyes, they HAVE to stomp Hezbollah thoroughly this time. Boosh and Blair DO understand the dynamics here and probably regret the civilian casualties. But the fault here is that of those who would place command bunkers in residential neighborhoods -- not as a result of Hezbollah being a grass-roots civic organization, but a terrorist group who gives not a shit about the deaths of women and children, theirs or Israeli.
Yes it pitiful to see Lebanon bombed back into the stoneages -- again -- but if the Lebanese had had the spine to resist, or the Syrians hadn't militarily controlled Lebanon or supported Hezboolah (better spelling? or how about Hoozboolah?) for so long there would have no need for all this. If anything, Israeli tolerance for their murderous neighbors is also a contributory factor to the whole mess. In no way could the possession AND USE of Katyusha rockets against Israel be said to have served to protect Lebanon, the ostensible function of Hoozboolah. And accordingly Israel should have stomped them sooner.
My real worry comes when they start lobbing the long range missiles into Tel Aviv and Haifa ... and unless I am much mistaken, it is there we will see first use of chemical and biological weapons (probably Saddam's, lest we trace the real perps in Tehran). Then all bets are truly "off."
Look, Hezbollah (hizb-Allah or whatever)is the aggressor. In 2000 Israel decided that it had to pull out of Southern Lebanon because of a variety of factors, but mostly beause of public and international opinion. Since that moment, the scumbags from Hezbollah have worked ceaselessly to entrench themselves by digging bunkers, stockpiling arms and ammunition and establishing MILITARY outposts among the civilian population of Lebanon.
Hezbollah is an independent army ostensibly reporting to Nesrallah, but more accurately doing the bidding of its masters and financiers in Iran. But Hezbollah has nothing really to do with the army of the republic of Lebanon. Nothing at all.
It is as if the people of the state of Maine decided that they needed an independent army, separate from the rest of the United States due to the fact their religion was "Down East." The Mainers then attack Canada, sending missile after missile raining into downtown Quebec because Maine has determined that ALL Quebecers need to die. In fact as the primary goal of the Down East Republic of Maine they have adopted the creed of the Ottowans: "kill Frenchy." Now all America really wants is to get on with life and selling stuff to the Quebecers, although they don't particularly like them, their semi-autonomous state, Maine, with its own army has declared war on Quebec. Hmmm. What to do. As the USof A is culturally Down East (similar to the Saudis, Gulfies and Shiites everywhere) they'd like nothing more than to see the demise of those dirty Frenchies. But... Then the world came to find out that the Mainers are in fact being funded by Ottowans. In fact the Grand Poobah of the Down East lodge is nothing more than an Ottowan stooge. So the Frenchies decide to invade Maine to steal some excellent Maple Syrup and most of all stop those Maniacs from shooting those damn missiles.
Is short, it is as predicted in this blog, an Iranian assault on Israel. Just using some proxies. The civilian deaths caused by this are not even worth thinking about in the schemes of Iran and Syria. Rather they are a propaganda BONUS. They get to show you pictures of "innocent" women and children being slaughtered by the evil Jews. Well, but for the fact that Iran/Hezbollah decided to hide among the civilian population just to provide protection and the inevitable propaganda that innocent deaths create, we'd be looking at a simple armed aggression and retaliation. Israel HAS got to complete on this. This is different than the Hamas/Gaza/West Bank deal. This is the direct unprovoked assault on its civilians by the stooges of a hostile culture/country which has stated publicly that Israel must cease to exist and all Jews die. And, by the way, the Holocaust was a lie. Oh sure, Hamas exists to kill all Jews too, but they are a joke and couldn't do much more than blow themselves up and fight amongst the other Palestinian factions. Hizbollah is quite different, it is a foreign trained, funded and highly efficient army. Dedicated too and responsive to the diktats of the Ayatollahs ... centralized command.
And yet, the left wing pundits in this country continue to cry out fo negotiations: WISE UP!!! There is no negotiation possible: the one side doesn't want territory, money or other goods and services. They want the other side to die. That does not leave a lot of room, or anywhere meaningful to start. Holding negotiations also presumes rational parties: Israel vacated Lebanon 6 years ago and all Hezbollah did was to arm against the next assault. Not exactly actions dedicated to peace. Nasrallah was proclaimed a "hero" for kicking out Israel. A hero in the Syrian controlled press. Shit, Goering was a hero too, in the Nazi press. This also poses one of those mysteries to me: why do Jewish people in the United States support causes that undermine the very existence of Israel (that would include the Democratic Party and the NY Times -- which in its frenzy to discredit Boosh and the US administration, conveniently ignore that they are in effect supporting a bunch of murdering zealots financed by Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollahs -- all for domestic partisan gain). By means of balancing out things, you can't just give cash to the JDL or some such and call it "quits" or "even". Howard Dean is not far removed from handing over the keys to Tel Aviv. That is, this IS an all or nothing gig and you have to look beyond your hatred of Boosh.
Friends, this is one of the opening salvos of the Fourth World War (the Third was the Cold War and we more or less won that one). For Iran this is a cheap way of causing the trouble they have been dying to make for years and they have calculated that they cannot lose, no matter what happens. Unless Israel succeeds in capturing some Iranians on Lebanese soil (and they will be better protected and further away from any risk than Nesrallah), this will be a conveniently ignored reality. Kofi Annan is a frikkin idiot - 'nuff said.
Israel will launch a full scale invasion as soon as enough reserves are called up. Then, if Iran or Syria is silly enough to escalate the conflict to preserve the lives of their heavily armed stooges, we will see real fireworks: Israel is betting that this exact scenario will come to pass and the general population is more or less on board with this as they realize that this IS an all or nothing gig.
Boosh and Blair get nothing but stick for refusing to call for a ceasefire. What, call a ceasefire so that the scuzzbags can rearm and regroup, only to more effectively provide resistance to Israel? And in Israeli eyes, they HAVE to stomp Hezbollah thoroughly this time. Boosh and Blair DO understand the dynamics here and probably regret the civilian casualties. But the fault here is that of those who would place command bunkers in residential neighborhoods -- not as a result of Hezbollah being a grass-roots civic organization, but a terrorist group who gives not a shit about the deaths of women and children, theirs or Israeli.
Yes it pitiful to see Lebanon bombed back into the stoneages -- again -- but if the Lebanese had had the spine to resist, or the Syrians hadn't militarily controlled Lebanon or supported Hezboolah (better spelling? or how about Hoozboolah?) for so long there would have no need for all this. If anything, Israeli tolerance for their murderous neighbors is also a contributory factor to the whole mess. In no way could the possession AND USE of Katyusha rockets against Israel be said to have served to protect Lebanon, the ostensible function of Hoozboolah. And accordingly Israel should have stomped them sooner.
My real worry comes when they start lobbing the long range missiles into Tel Aviv and Haifa ... and unless I am much mistaken, it is there we will see first use of chemical and biological weapons (probably Saddam's, lest we trace the real perps in Tehran). Then all bets are truly "off."
posted by Zaphod at Tuesday, August 01, 2006
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