tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post115664433153524149..comments2024-03-19T01:48:39.709+00:00Comments on Power and Control: Hizbollah Beats Israel Loses ArabsM. Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09508934110558197375noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-1157612816750878492006-09-07T07:06:00.000+00:002006-09-07T07:06:00.000+00:00..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-1156924934879714842006-08-30T08:02:00.000+00:002006-08-30T08:02:00.000+00:00the problem starts with us, the Western people. We...the problem starts with us, the Western people. We are too fearful to admit that situation is so bad, that this is a war for survival of our culture.While it is somewhere there, in Israel, we don't really care. It is like when hearing about any other disaster, AWAY from our homes, we say, "My Goodness!.." and feel even more comfortable here...Reminds me of that Catholic clerical during WW2 that said, "when they came for Jews, we were silent, since they came not after us; when they came for Gypsies, we were silent, since they came not after us,... when they came after us, it was silent, since noone left...".<BR/>And this reminds me of 2 British, one i do not respect, Lord Chamberlain, Lord "I've brought you the peace!.." - and Lord Cherchill, which said, "Victory, victory at any price!.."<BR/>People somehow try to push this away from them, not taking this seriously, hoping this will end like any other game - this is for real, here and now, and the end could be ours.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-1156743824095719532006-08-28T05:43:00.000+00:002006-08-28T05:43:00.000+00:00In the West, my bet's on insanity. A sucker's bet,...In the West, my bet's on insanity. A sucker's bet, of course, since the Left are well down that road already and have openly betrayed almost every single value they once claimed to champion. But I thought it was worthwhile to put the marker down.Joe Katzmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13917754785464014034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-1156727638725715562006-08-28T01:13:00.000+00:002006-08-28T01:13:00.000+00:00FROM CAROL HERMANMark, in Texas. You're onto some...FROM CAROL HERMAN<BR/><BR/>Mark, in Texas. You're onto something. Because the stuff built by nasarallah was not built to code, the Israels were able to pancake, and flatten buildings. These are uninhabitable. Leaving about a million Shi'a without roofs over their heads. And, many are fleeing backwards, again, into syria.<BR/><BR/>And, you're right. If it's going to be necessary in the future to make livings; livelihoods. Then a lot of arabs have to roll up their carpets. And, start again. That's what causes mass exodus. People don't usually hang around war torn areas; unless they can find work.<BR/><BR/>And, here's the puzzle. Among the Lebanese they can actually tell the differences between sects. <BR/><BR/>The Shi'a, through iran, had an outreach plan. But it's been given set-backs. Plus, while the MSM has its collective minds elsewhere, Israel has not totally evacuated positions in Israel. But they're working in very small units. And, I just read, today, that a very complicated bunker system, built towards the border; got blown up.<BR/><BR/>Also, if you'll notice, nasrallah isn't racing around, out in the open. A lot of the elites within hez'bolly-bola. And, in gazoo. Tend to avoid the sunlight. One day nasrallah may feel a laser light shining on him? He sure seems bent on staying underground. <BR/><BR/>Since everything ahead is still secret; and we only know what the UN reports to the MSM, what can you draw from this?<BR/><BR/>Again, the most recent stuff is that there's a "prisoner exchange" making the diplomatic rounds.<BR/><BR/>And, if some of you think this is risky business for Israel; I beg to differ. Israel gives the muslems so much when they're captured, that I read someplace, some palestinians were LOOKING TO GET CAPTURES. Teenagers who wanted to go to school. And, had no chances at all if they stay in gazoo. <BR/><BR/>I know it's counter-intuitive. But you win battles just as much when your enemies surrender; as you do shooting everything dead. Not just soldiers. But horses. Cows. Civilians. Getting your opponents to throw up their hands is a very clever approach. (Arik Sharon discovered this in 1973; when fully equipped egyptians threw everything away, and raced over to surrender.)<BR/><BR/>Really. Don't laugh. This was even true during WW2. germans preferred surrendering to Patton. Than to any russian troops! Heck, the russians had the reputations of beasts.<BR/><BR/>So, when you hear the news ahead, read a little between the lines.<BR/><BR/>As to the FOX "Islamic" converts who were just freed; they have to consider themselves lucky they weren't forced to divorce their wives, and accept new goats. Maybe, next time?<BR/><BR/>Up ahead, no matter what else happens, I can assure you Israelis aren't looking for the border with lebanon to open, so they can become tourists. The lebanese are as stupid as the french. Even when they smell bad, they don't think it will effect trade. While the tourist business slips off.<BR/><BR/>But, of course. The arabs won. Sure thang.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-1156720451595145562006-08-27T23:14:00.000+00:002006-08-27T23:14:00.000+00:00Lebanon is not going to be a safe and prosperous l...Lebanon is not going to be a safe and prosperous land connected to the rest of the world and full of opportunity for its inhabitants until Hezbollah is gone.<BR/><BR/>Hezbollah is not going to be gone without somebody getting rid of them. The Lebanese army can'd and the UN won't.<BR/><BR/>Therefore in order to get rid of Hezbollah it is going to take another Lebanese Civil War.<BR/><BR/>The good news is that Kosovo and Afghanistan have demonstrated just how effective it can be to have a modern air force on your side in a civil war.<BR/><BR/>Hezbollah is weakened. If the Israelis have their intel act together they will be making contact with the appropriate parties in Lebanon. Do the Israelis still have those warehouses full of Kalashnikovs they took form the PLO when they invaded Lebanon in the 1980s? In a day or so Israel could arm all the Lebanese factions that would like to be rid of Hezbollah. They could also deliver close air support to a campaign to drive the Iranian puppets into Syria.<BR/><BR/>The only question would be whether all the rest of the Shia are driven out of Lebanon the way that the Christians are being driven out of Kosovo.Mark in Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05705620096625947555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-1156709175678878522006-08-27T20:06:00.000+00:002006-08-27T20:06:00.000+00:00Here's a test. Let's see how much interest Beirut...Here's a test. Let's see how much interest Beirut has in securing the Syrian border in coming days.<BR/><BR/>Arutz News Bulletin, 8-27-06 <BR/><BR/><EM>"Despite Israel's request, UNIFIL peacekeepers will not be stationed along the Lebanese-Syrian border to prevent arms smuggling to Hizbullah <STRONG>unless Beirut specifically requests it</STRONG>... This was decided at the UN-sponsored meeting on Friday."</EM><BR/><BR/>Res 1701 specifically contained the qualifying language regarding Lebanese gov't request as a precondition for surveillance and interdiction leading to this decision on UNIFIL inaction. I don't fault Israel for requesting the UNIFIL action, but the decision was predictable before the "ceasefire" was begun. Inaction was built into the resolution. Let's see what Beirut does in coming days.<BR/><BR/>One of my points in comments at 'Long Knives' post. Who bought into the language in the resolution?linearthinkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05201292791445921817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-1156703662311899282006-08-27T18:34:00.000+00:002006-08-27T18:34:00.000+00:00That was an interesting piece in many ways.However...That was an interesting piece in many ways.<BR/><BR/>However, I differ with you on one thing: I don't think the Lebanese government is capable of throwing out Hezbollah, much less destroying them.<BR/><BR/>Even if they wanted to.<BR/><BR/>The gameplan of the new-style guerrilla organization is to hollow out corrupt and failed states and wear them as armor. That's what Hezbollah is doing. That's what the Iraqi insurgency is doing, the Taliban in Afghanistan, etc.<BR/><BR/>Once another organization begins to provide basic services over a certain threshold-- let's say it's 20%, to be conservative-- it gets entrenched to such a degree that it's very difficult to remove.<BR/><BR/>Remember that Hezbollah is a legitimate political party in Lebanon, as legitimate as any other. You may disagree, but again, they're providing services that the government is unable or unwilling to, so in a sense they're taking on the responsibilities of government. They have many, many supporters in Lebanon and outside.<BR/><BR/>And if you think their beating back Israel somehow translates into a loss in the hearts and minds of the Arab world, I really have to question your logic.Stephen Greyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12561935944292699586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-1156693623754417412006-08-27T15:47:00.000+00:002006-08-27T15:47:00.000+00:00re: Carol HermanGod abrogated those 'Marriage Cont...re: Carol Herman<BR/><BR/>God abrogated those 'Marriage Contracts' when God sent Baha'u'llah to give humankind the Laws for this Day...<BR/><BR/>Men/Women equal, though different: different and equal...<BR/><BR/>All races equal in the eyes of God...<BR/><BR/>...anyway, that's what Baha'is say, and they're dedicated to the Glory of God!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-1156693396169243042006-08-27T15:43:00.000+00:002006-08-27T15:43:00.000+00:00I got here too late in the day to even focus my ey...I got here too late in the day to even focus my eyes...<BR/><BR/>...be back tomorrow to get the details... <BR/><BR/>Good stuff...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-1156648438686476292006-08-27T03:13:00.000+00:002006-08-27T03:13:00.000+00:00FROM CAROL HERMANI just love your blog! Gotta tel...FROM CAROL HERMAN<BR/><BR/>I just love your blog! Gotta tell ya. You are tackling things people need to know.<BR/><BR/>While I'd like to add a comment about islam. Since I read an interesting piece today, up at the Winds of Change. Where he met a NICE Pakistani man, in the next cubicle. Who just came to work where he works.<BR/><BR/>While the Pakistani man does not go to the mosque. Talks about eating pork. And, was very friendly. What I took away from the story is a link on why so many men who know the "jibber-jabber" of the religious nuts is just garbage; it gives them something Western men don't get. DISCIPLINED WIVES. (You can do this without love. Just a sexual commodity. Where the wife is trained to OBEY. And, you get good food cooked, and nice babies, loved by the family, thrown into the bargain.)<BR/><BR/>I'm not so sure muslem men are willing to give this up. <BR/><BR/>The women? Illiterate women can't get out of this hole. And, women within "that" culture who opt for love, are killed by their dads, or brothers. And, no one pays a price.<BR/><BR/>It's worse than being a black slave. And, slavery, at least in the USA, has been ended. But not marriage contracts that doom a woman to being a goat.<BR/><BR/>Especially where the men see with their eyes that Western men suffer. And muslem men get no guff at home.<BR/><BR/>What's the solution? I dunno. Wouldn't want to be a goat, though.<BR/><BR/>And, I know my own grandma, maternal side; born in 1872, had been deprived an education. Couldn't read or write. BUT SHE KNEW HOW TO SURVIVE! And, she knew how to get her family to America; because it was seen as such a good place for the children.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, a "religion" that just keeps its women in shackles must have some weak points to it. But where?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com