All I can say: Cluster fuck. After Lebonon based Hezbollah, inevitably at the behest of Syria and Iran, lobbed a few bombs as Israel, we now see the situation get tense.
Update here, and here. Additional good shit here and here.
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Former NYT Middle East correspondent and WSJ Energy Editor Youssef M. Ibrahim notes the writing on the wall. From Jewish World Review:[...] Dear Palestinian Arab brethren: The war with Israel is over. You have lost. Surrender and negotiate to secure a …

APBEIRUT, Lebanon – Witnesses said Israeli aircraft attacked central Beirut Saturday for the first time in a four-day offensive, striking a lighthouse and the capital’s seaport. In Lebanon’s northernmost city, Tripoli, witnesses said Israeli helicopt…

Well, the United States has one that is bigger and better than Iran’s (proxy that is …lol). We should play Iran’s game only better. Send Israel the means to destroy Iran, and let Israel blow Iran into the stone age, their missiles, their nuclear facilities, and their little dog too …… (Syria that is).

We should give Israel all the help it needs (if it needs any) to destroy their oil facilities, infrastructure, bridges, communications, anything that even thinks about being military, means of production of capital equipment, naval and port facilities espeically in the Straight or Hormuz, and any targets of opportunity that present themselves.

Let Iran’s plan backfire and have Israel give them punishment that will put those miserable Islamofacists into the stoneage – those that are left that is.

Terrorists Develop Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
On “Mirsad 1″ Fight Over Israel
December 6, 2004

The answer to where did Hezbollah get a UAV from seems to be Iran.

Israel continues to lash Hizbollah, which has unveiled some nasty surprises, and there is an interesting dynamic playing out with the new L……

People need to understand the nature of this conflict. Israel has lived with terror on a daily basis from groups supported by Hamas, Hezbollah and the Palestinian Authority. There comes a point when the sovereign nation of Israel has to defend themse…..

Who knows? But I suspect we’ll know the answer within the next two weeks.

As for me, I’m willing to put up with the short term pain that would result from Nuking these assholes. It worked in ’45.

While the terrorist organizations Hamas and Hizbollah continue to wage war against Israel, there appears to be some added tension to their relationships with the countries they are based in.  Take a look at the Iranian backed Hizbollah for instan…

It would minimize damage to the country, and show that they are trying to be good neighbors….

With Saudi and Egypt backing, this strategy could defuse the whole situation rapidly.

By comparison, the Secretary General’s opening statement fairly reeks of smarmy, self-serving drivel. Kofi Annan reminds us to wonder why on earth we even bother. Gillerman reminds us that there may yet be hope for the UN after all.

I’m a Catholic and have been constantly frustrated with the liberal Vatican Secretary of State Angelo Sodano’s proclamations on foreign policy for the past several years, making himself out as if he speaks for the Catholic Church.

He is a liberal holdover of Pope John Paul II’s. Thankfully he resigned on June 22 and will be replaced by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. Hopefully, we will have less of these idiotic anti-Israel appeasement statements.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has promised a fierce response should Israel escalate its military operation to include Syria while warning further that the Zionist regime does not dare to cast a look with bad intentions at Iran. If the Zionist…

I do not know what they expected. Maybe they thought Olmert was weak and would buckle. As it stands now, I’m not looking for Israel to stand down as long as the USA continues to support it diplomatically and with aid.

Both Iran and Syria now face a dillemma, given that their expressed gambit (exchanging kidnapped IDF for terrorists in Israeli jails) appears to have backfired. Syria faces both Israel and the US forces on opposite sides of their country. Any Syrian forces in the eastern part is effectively pinned down, facing our troops. That gives a major advantage to Israel should it wish to advance on Damascus.

Iran faces a huge US force in the Gulf, in the Indian ocean, and in Iraq. Any conventional attack on Israel launched from Iran would have to run a US military gauntlet. Any use of an intermediate range ballistic missile capable of reaching Israel faces the Navy’s Aegis as well as an Israeli counterstrike.

And here is one more item: There are tens of thousands of Americans in both Israel and Lebanon that may need evacuation. They have no way to evacuate by commerical/charter jetliner since the IDF cratered the runways at Beruit Internation and the Lebanese AF bases. Should a decision be made to evacuate our people, the large number (I heard 25,000 this morning) will require major US military assets, including the 6th Fleet, the Iwo Jima Epeditionary Strike Group in the Red Sea, and/or troops and aircraft out of Germany.

If I were George W. Bush, I’d instruct Amb. Bolton to tell the Iranians and the Syrians that any interference with US forces evacuating Americans and any other foreign nationals will result in a strike against their capitals. I’d make it especially clear to the Iranians that we remember Khobar Towers and Beruit ’83, and hold them directly accountable for both, and that we won’t hesitate to hit them with a devastating attack at the slightest sign of Hezbollah activities against us.

But then, I’m not the POTUS, I’m just another keyboard commando with some spare time on his hands.

;^)

This is no time to be covert. This is the time for Lebanon to take itself back from Hezbollah, while Israel beats them to death. This is “shit or get off the pot” time.