Allowing Israel to take a few more weeks and rout Hezbollah—preferably also with some sobering strikes against Syria—would have created a different scenario and, most important, perceptions of a Western victory and humiliating jihadist defeat. That may have allowed the truly moderate Christian, Druze, and Muslim forces in Lebanon to start trying to retake control of their country while leaving the Iranian-led jihad axis reeling.
Instead the United States and the world community have chosen with this dire Security Council resolution to create a powerful scenario of perceived, and to some extent real, jihadist victory while ensuring continuing instability and endangerment of Israel. It is a moment that will come back to haunt America and the West.
Aw, diddums. Israel can't bomb Lebanon into oblivion, kill even more children, cause even more of a humanitarian disaster and cause more hate in the Muslim world.
No, instead we can hopefully agree to prisoner exchanges, rebuild Lebanon, rehouse the million+ refugees, and hopefully try to reach some sort of consensus on a road map for eternal peace and not eternal war.
This exposes the kind of mentality running the USA now. The Independent is running a story that accuses Bush, who is just a front man taking orders, of viewing the war on Lebanon as a provocation to Iran. This is what I said a few weeks ago when I pointed back to the letter from PNAC to Bush dated 20th September 2001 in which PNAC were foaming at the mouth for war against Hizb Allah, Syria and Iran just 8 days after 9/11 even though no evidence had been supplied that implicated any of them in those 'attacks'!
From http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1219021.ece
The Bush administration was informed in advance and gave the "green light" to Israel's military strikes against Hizbollah with plans drawn up months before two Israeli soldiers were seized it has been claimed.
The US reportedly considered Israel's actions as a necessary prerequisite for a possible strike against Iran. A report by a leading investigative reporter says that earlier this summer Israeli officials visited Washington to brief the government on its plan to respond to any Hizbollah provocation and to "find out how much the US would bear".
The officials apparently started their inquiries with Vice-President Dick Cheney, knowing that if they secured his support, obtaining the backing of President Bush and Condoleezza Rice would be easier.
The report by Seymour Hersh quotes an unidentified US government consultant with close ties to the Israelis who says: "The Israelis told us it would be a cheap war with many benefits. Why oppose it? We'll be able to hunt down and bomb missiles, tunnels, and bunkers from the air. It would be a demo for Iran."
A former intelligence officer, also quoted, says: "We told Israel,'Look, if you guys have to go, we're behind you all the way. But we think it should be sooner rather than later. The longer you wait, the less time we have to evaluate and plan for Iran before Bush gets out of office'."
That last sentence "The longer you wait, the less time we have to evaluate and plan for Iran before Bush gets out of office" shows that we are on a countdown to war with Iran. Somehow. This Lebanon war failed because Olmert blinked (praise the Lord). Now it appears the knives are out to get Olmert out and Netanyahu in. Somehow.
Netanyhau would probably steam back into Lebanon.
Or there's gonna be a BIIIG synthetic terror attack.
Either way, the game's not over yet.
That last sentence also explains the rush to publication of any number of articles from Strangelove Kissinger to Gaffney to Kristol to Perle, all of them rocking back and forth, foaming at the mouth, screaming out for war with Iran.
I've said it a few times before and I'll say it again; three world wars were planned centuries ago and the third was planned to be between Islam and Zionism.
Who would plan such a thing?
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