Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Lebanon & Syria
Hizbollah "Party of God" has installed its own private communications network in the south of Lebanon, stretching from the village of Zawter Sharqiya all the way to Beirut. Hizbollah is also building new roads north of the Litani river, new bunkers, new logistics far outside the area of operations of the Nato-led UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon.
Since the Israeli army is incapable of fighting the Hizbollah on its own ground – its collapse when faced by Hizbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon last year proved this – what happens if their awesome air power is also neutered? With the new anti-aircraft missiles Hizbollah is believed to have.
Tiny Lebanon has accepted 50,000 Iraqis since the great refugee exodus began. Syria has allegedly accepted almost one and a half million Iraqi refugees – caring for them, providing them with welfare and free hospital services – while Washington, when it isn't cursing Iraq's prime minister, has accepted a measly 800 Iraqis.
The Pakistanis reported that the Americans were using pilotless drones to attack targets just inside Pakistan. But it seems much more ambitious military plans may now be in the works. An all-out strike inside the North West Frontier province before President Pervez Musharref steps down – or is overthrown? A last throw of the dice at Bin Laden before "democracy" returns to Pakistan?
IMO: In a war, decent people often feel sorry for innocent victims on each and every side. This even includes 9-11. After all, the Bush administration has screwed up everything – militarily, politically diplomatically – it has tried to do in the Middle East; so how on earth could it successfully bring off the international crimes against humanity in the United States on 11 September 2001? But all in all, USA and Israel do not seem to be making any real friends in the Middle East. It looks as if they may have to leave for good, for better or for worse, just as the UK had to leave India, with far less ill will and bloodshed.
Since the Israeli army is incapable of fighting the Hizbollah on its own ground – its collapse when faced by Hizbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon last year proved this – what happens if their awesome air power is also neutered? With the new anti-aircraft missiles Hizbollah is believed to have.
Tiny Lebanon has accepted 50,000 Iraqis since the great refugee exodus began. Syria has allegedly accepted almost one and a half million Iraqi refugees – caring for them, providing them with welfare and free hospital services – while Washington, when it isn't cursing Iraq's prime minister, has accepted a measly 800 Iraqis.
The Pakistanis reported that the Americans were using pilotless drones to attack targets just inside Pakistan. But it seems much more ambitious military plans may now be in the works. An all-out strike inside the North West Frontier province before President Pervez Musharref steps down – or is overthrown? A last throw of the dice at Bin Laden before "democracy" returns to Pakistan?
IMO: In a war, decent people often feel sorry for innocent victims on each and every side. This even includes 9-11. After all, the Bush administration has screwed up everything – militarily, politically diplomatically – it has tried to do in the Middle East; so how on earth could it successfully bring off the international crimes against humanity in the United States on 11 September 2001? But all in all, USA and Israel do not seem to be making any real friends in the Middle East. It looks as if they may have to leave for good, for better or for worse, just as the UK had to leave India, with far less ill will and bloodshed.
# posted by uv : 6:33 AM
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