Totten on Lebanon, on Us, on Iran
Great insights, as always, from Michael Totten. A lot of Lebanese want what they’ll never get: us back. But the takedown of the Syrian and Iranian regimes on their own turf would accomplish in Lebanon what our presence there would not. Also, Hezbollah isn’t as powerful as a lot of people think it is. And a lot more. It’s a ramble, but worth it.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 1:43 am Comments (3) on Monday, February 5, 2007
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February 5th, 2007 at 2:36 am
The Beirut Branch of the Mossad
The Beirut Branch of the Mossad Michael J Totten (H/T: Jules C.) BEIRUT – Hezbollah has killed more Americans than any terrorist organization in the world after Al Qaeda. In 1983 a suicide-bomber drove a truck into a U.S. Marine
February 5th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Interesting point the Maronites make that they are not Arabs. Of course, they’re not, and neither are Egyptians, nor a whole host of other populations whom we typically think of as Arab. It illustrates the fact that Islam is simply codified Arab custom and language imposed on an entire region of the world.
February 5th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
I think that we’ve given way too much wealth to people unprepared to handle it.
RebeccaH, perhaps that is why Muslims insist that they constitute a race.