Re: anderson's take on isreal/lebanon/hezbollah......


John Rogers wrote:
Yeah, "Dan Bretta" <nudan92@xxxxxxxxx>, well... that's just like...
your opinion man.


John Rogers wrote:
Yeah, "Jon Enslin" <jenslin@xxxxxxxxxxx>, well... that's just like...
your opinion man.


Dan Bretta wrote:
alicamdun@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
mianderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, what's a dazzling urbanite like you doing
in a rustic setting like this?

Is that the US needs to stay the hell out of it either way. If we want
to send a few ambassadors or goodwill negotiators or whatever over
there, fine. but for the most part, this is between israel and
hezbollah and what's going to go down with internal control of lebanon.

Okay......you cou

Here is what kos said today on the matter and I'm pretty much in
agreement with him on this issue: "It's clear that in the Middle East,
no one is sick of the fighting. They have centuries of grudges to
resolve, and will continue fighting until they can get over them. And
considering that they obviously have no interest in "getting over
them", we're stuck with a war that will not end in any forseable
future. It doesn't matter what we bloggers say. It doesn't matter what
the President of the United States says. Or the United Nations. Or the
usual bloviating gasbag pundits.

Kos also had plenty of anti-Semtic posts as well. There are
no "centuries of grudges" as the current problem evolved in the
20th century and really got running in 1948.

And yes, no matter what anyone says, Israel will continue to
defend itself. Israel left Gaza. Israrel left southern Lebanon,
just as the UN and the "international community" demanded.
What was the result? More, not less, terror attacks.
The Palestinians should have begun building their country
but decided, typically, to try to kill Jews instead.

When two sides are this dead-set on killing each other,
very little can get in the way.

Well, a wall sure helps.

And I, for one, sure as heck have no desire to get sucked into that
no-win situation. I just hope that war-fatigue sets in at some point."


He pretty much nails it. Neocons are sorta digging this latest thing
in the mideast because maybe it gives them something else to sell to
the american people in some way, shape, or form. But the american
public won't buy that again. For all I care israel and hezbollah and
hamas and fatah and lebanon and syria can all have their own little fun
in some dry way too-hot ****-hole thousands of miles away. Just leave
us out of it either way...

The American people bought the Clinton line, which was a complete
failure, why not this line? I find it ironic that you post comments
from
a person who completely repudiates (as he should) the Democrat's
view on the Israel/PA/Hamas dispute and then go on to attack the
neocons.

What kind of US involvement do you want to see?

I think they should work to hold back Israel from attacking Damascus
and simultaneously work with Russia to get Iran and Syria back in line.
If the latter doesn't work, and hostilities continue to grow, the
former may not be possible.

Why in the world would you think Russia would have any desire to "get
Iran and Syria back in line"? Russia (and to a bit lesser extent
China) is Syrian and Iran's permanent veto on the less-than-worthless
UN "Security" Council.

What level of involvement do you think the US should have in this
conflict?

Providing Israel the support and the means to do what they feel needs
to be done. Diplomatic protection and cover for them to do so.

cut to it and be blunt.....does this mean military support(in the form
of our armed forces deployed somewhere in combat areas) or not? If it
does I don't think americans would view it an acceptable policy.......



Move at least two carrier task groups to the Arabian Sea. Move a
second carrier task group to the Med. (More to both areas if
available.) If Iran or Syria even sniff towards Israel, pound their
armed force's dicks into the Middle Eastern dirt.

oh ok you don't have to answer that....I guess it does. Good luck
selling another war in the middle east to the american
people.........and this one not for weapons of mass destruction, but
because "they sniffed towards israel"....yeah, that will go over well.
In fact I wouldn't mind that happening right before a national election
if the gop is in charge :)

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