> RoMunn wrote: > No, Gruss is conveniently ignoring Nasrallah's own staterments to try to > make his point. The fact is Hezbollah did not anticipate a serious military > response, did not want a serious military response, and now they are left > having to justify to other Lebanese why south Beruit is destroyed and > southern Lebanon is occupied by UN troops. That's called propaganda, and > Gruss buys it everytime, as long as it comes from the enemy. >
LOL - To be clear, here's my conjecture: (1.) Iran. Ahmadinejad is the front man for a group of Mullahs whose goal is to dominate the region and control the economy via oil. Their pursuit of a nuke is to directly control the US and force them out of the region. Their justification to the UN is nuclear power and their justification to the Arab world is to control Israel. While the nuke is there prime method, their secondary method is to foment war and FUD in the region. To repeat: their true goal is domination of the region and their rhetoric changes depends on audience: "it's for power", "it's to control the Jews" (2.) Lebanon. Clearly Hezbollah was attempting to provoke Israel, and had planned to do so for months. Whether they intended war or not is irrelevant. Israel's action was to essentially hand Lebanon to them. RoMunn - if you're right and I'm wrong then we should see the Lebanese people rise up and eject Hezbollah. If they don't, then I'm right: Israel handed Hezbollah a country. gMoney - What works? I'll use a football analogy: you try 3 running plays to no luck. You try 3 passing plays to no luck. Do you conclude that offense doesn't work? No. It's the combination of methods and the dynamic use of them depending on what the defense is doing that gets the job done. Finally, Nasrallah. Again, does it matter whether he planned it or not? Only to judge the degree of stupidity on Israel's part. It would answer the question of how manipulated Israel was. But they were either stupid or really stupid. But still stupid. Either way the results were the same: expended resources for little or no gain. Back to football: you run your quarterback up the middle on first down. He makes 5 yards and gets beat up. You do it on second down. He makes 1 yard and gets beat up. You run him up again on 3rd down. No gain, beat up QB. Was it all for nothing? Depends on your measurement: if you measure yards, you made 6. If you measure score, you made none. And either way, you're still punting. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:215955 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
