Allah jam-packs a post with info, as usual, all worth reading, but this is what I’m quoting. Melanie Phillips, author of Londonistan, was interviewed by MSNBC (link at Allah’s place), but is largely being ignored by the Western Media. What……

War News (Blogs & Opinion below) Hezbollah running governmental functions in at least one Beirut neighborhood. (FoxNews Studio B’s Shepard Smith) 12:17 PDT Sweden to host Lebanon Aid Meeting: Representatives of 60 governments and organizations are…

I suggest replacing Rice with a bit of testosterone – someone with the backbone and savvy of Jean Kirkpatrick or John Bolten….

I’m still stunned they agreed to a cease-fire without the return of the kidnapped soldiers. Big mistake.

There could very well be some behind-the-scenes goings on about that. Let’s hope they do get them back during this “lull” preceding all-out hostilities.

This was an excellent post Allah, with a Peters and the WaPo article being “keeper” links. But I think we should re-phrase Peters’ above question. A better question might be the following: “Can the West can win any war with Post-Modern values?” We did just fine against the East for the past 500 years with Western values.

Can we win “Eastern” wars with Western values?

No.

I’m still stunned they agreed to a cease-fire without the return of the kidnapped soldiers. Big mistake.

Kevin M on August 14, 2006 at 7:31 AM

Yup. Kevin is right. Big mistake.

Mornin’, everyone. Thanks to Michelle for letting me hang out a bit. For a little lady, she has quite big shoes (really, that’s why they only show her from the waist up on TV, little-known fact), so bear with us……

Michael Rubin at The Corner tells the truth about Condi Rice’s diplomatic “victories” ever since she became the US secratary of state….

Meaning, Arabs re-arm, Israelis (maybe us) wait to get killed.

My answer:

Naw, I say remove the arrogating ‘nose hair’ “Nasrallah”, out.

A’ole no!

History repeatedly has shown they use these “cease-fires” to re-arm with something bigger and better.

I think Golda Meir said it best, “When they learn to love their children more than they hate us, there will be peace in the Middle East.” (paraphrased)

Reading today that the London Bombers were using babies as a cover for their next attack just shows they have a long way to go in learning to love their own children.

Continued from Cease-fire goes into effect(?). Just trying to keep my posts down to chewable size. Allahpundit’s has a lengthy link-rich post here. Study it….

I wonder something. If Syria, Iran, and Lebanon’s “actual” army just came out into the open with any other country that wanted to join the party and attacked Israel, crossed the borders as if they were Poland, what would the U.S. and Britain do? And would we be the only ones to do anything? And could we drive them back alone?

The fact that these countries so far don’t do this suggests that they think the response would be too much for them to handle, so they let Hez do their dirty work. It’s a damn shame that we can’t round up some allies who would help make the response *now* too much for them to handle.

The fact that they don’t do this also suggests they believe too many other nations support Israel’s right to exist. As long as that’s true they can’t do much but take potshots and get pounded and cry about “disproportionate.” But if it really were true, we (those magical phantom nations who unequivocally support Israel’s right to conduct themselves as a nation) should be making the response NOW *too much for them to handle.*

I really fear what’s coming later if we don’t.

It depends on who you ask and how you define ceasefire. Looks like it’s back to the UN on Monday, as I can’t imagine this going on long without significant combat. Nasrallah is playing it both ways. He’s part of…

There IS no ceasefire; Nasrallah has said it’s still open season on Israelis in Lebanon. One shot fired by them–and it will happen–and it’s back on.
Hezbollah has absolutely no incentive to hold their fire; they don’t care how many lives are “martyred” in their quest to annihilate Israel. This “ceasefire” defies reality and logic.