Michael Hoover wrote:
They're flying into Beirut and they're dropping their bombs
Can you hear the screams Hear the fire alarms
Children are crying 'cause their mothers are dead
Everybody's dying and the streets are blood red
All that commotion means money is being made... cash money honey!
What WILL those nutty neocons think of next for the Middle East?
The Syrian withdrawal made Syria less able to control Hezbollah and
also simultaneously made the Syrian government less accountable for
what Hezbollah does. While the Syrians derive some satisfaction on
seeing missiles raining down on Israel the Assad regime probably would
have acted to restrain Hezbollah if a large Syrian military contingent
remained in Lebanon. Assad would not want Israeli warplanes attacking
Syrian troops in Lebanon or Syria proper.
The US government's pressure to get Syria out of Lebanon helped enable
Hezbollah to carry out the popular will of Shiite Lebanese.
(Juan Cole says of Israel's suppression & invasion tactics: "I repeat,
this is nothing less than an ethnic cleansing of the Shiites of
southern Lebanon,”
<http://www.juancole.com/2006/07/israelis-bomb-beirut-baalbak-again.html>
)
What is the next nutty neoconservative step? Overthrow the
undemocratic regimes in Syria, Jordan, and Egypt so that elected
populist theocratic leaders can better express the will of the Arab
street toward Israel.
http://www.parapundit.com/archives/cat_arabs_versus_israelis.html
