Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Winners and Losers in Lebanon
Some very smart people, like Ed Morrissey, not to mention the President, are declaring victory in the recent hot war in southern Lebanon. Others, like Krystol, Krauthammer and the editors of the Chicago Tribune, say what I believe, Israel lost.
I haven't heard anyone say this, but clearly the Palestinians lost too. Israel was perfectly willing to leave Gaza (they did leave Gaza) and the West Bank and live peacefully behind a fence, but the Palestinians, like Hezbollah up north, can't stand that and either buy rockets from Iran or make their own and shoot them over the fence at Israelis in order to kill them and destroy their property.
So don't expect Israel to pull out of the West Bank any time soon and aimed missiles and shells will be coming back into Gaza for a long time to come. I think we can expect a change of Israeli government to a much more aggressive sort of war fighter, which is bad news for Hamas and Hezbollah.
Thank God the Muslim extremists are fine with screwing fellow Muslims, otherwise they might be gaining real ground.
I haven't heard anyone say this, but clearly the Palestinians lost too. Israel was perfectly willing to leave Gaza (they did leave Gaza) and the West Bank and live peacefully behind a fence, but the Palestinians, like Hezbollah up north, can't stand that and either buy rockets from Iran or make their own and shoot them over the fence at Israelis in order to kill them and destroy their property.
So don't expect Israel to pull out of the West Bank any time soon and aimed missiles and shells will be coming back into Gaza for a long time to come. I think we can expect a change of Israeli government to a much more aggressive sort of war fighter, which is bad news for Hamas and Hezbollah.
Thank God the Muslim extremists are fine with screwing fellow Muslims, otherwise they might be gaining real ground.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:39 AM 
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"Thank God the Muslim extremists are fine with screwing fellow Muslims, otherwise they might be gaining real ground."
You're absolutely correct. The Arab world is divided, and corrupt, and the USA has always used this weakness against them, and played one country against another, played the Shia against the Sunni, Iraq against Iran, etc. The current administration was too stupid and arrogant to use the tactics that the US has used for decades to undermine the Arabs and keep the Middle-East, and consequently, the oil reserves there, under US control. The Arab world is complicated. Bush and Kristol think its simple and that everything can be solved by war and American power. Hence, the Iraq affair.
"And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in America that, you know, somehow the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular."
William Kristol, 2003.
You're absolutely correct. The Arab world is divided, and corrupt, and the USA has always used this weakness against them, and played one country against another, played the Shia against the Sunni, Iraq against Iran, etc. The current administration was too stupid and arrogant to use the tactics that the US has used for decades to undermine the Arabs and keep the Middle-East, and consequently, the oil reserves there, under US control. The Arab world is complicated. Bush and Kristol think its simple and that everything can be solved by war and American power. Hence, the Iraq affair.
"And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in America that, you know, somehow the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular."
William Kristol, 2003.
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: 11:24 AM
: 11:24 AM
Anon 1, well presented comment. Thanks.
Anon 2, Yes I read Will. We should do everything in our power to kill Islamofascists, including where apporpriate, police work. We should not limit it to police work so Kerry, as usual, was wrong.
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Anon 2, Yes I read Will. We should do everything in our power to kill Islamofascists, including where apporpriate, police work. We should not limit it to police work so Kerry, as usual, was wrong.
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