Hezbollah take over western Beirut

[The_Prince]

America gives all Arab countries weapons? Since when does the US produce AK-47s, MiGs, amd T Tanks?

lol i must admit you are funny.........................................america does not give every weapon in their army, but they do provide them with some weapons. geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez

 

[leo]

For Iran it's not chiefly about Israel. Israel is the hook to get the juices flowing. For Iran it's about regional influence. Of course it is a policy of the US to thwart that influence. Secretly, it is also the policy of the Gulf Arab states.

You have hit the bull

It was pro-Iran Govt of Iraq, which presented al zulfiqar holy sword to Rumsfeld after elimination of Saddam Govt during an official ceremony :-[

 

[Air Jordan]

your statemens would hold some weight if they werent so biased and filled with american-israeli propaganda..

Clever rebuttal. Alas, my CIA cover story is blown.

so only iran is the mischief maker in lebanon? no not america who is sending warships beside the coastline, and supporting the corrupt goverment who does not represent the majority of the people..

You are right. Iran is not the only mischief-maker. The Syrians like to assassinate the odd Lebanse politician from time to time. As for American warships...last time I checked, that is the Mediterranean. If they are there, they are in international waters..most likely to be ready to evacuate Americans and Europeans if the locals get a bit overzealous. At only one time there are probably thousands of American citizens in Lebanon. The US Navy has a fleet stationed in the Mediterranean since the start of the Cold War.

get your facts straight before you want to spew your fox news garbage. .

When the well runs dry there is always the ad hominem, eh? I don't watch television news. Perhaps you could answer my central point that Iran is pulling the strings on Hezbollah? Do you really doubt that?

Lebanon will be much better off without you american zionists tryin to bring your backwardness to the country.

Ah, you mean like the United States Consitution, which has allowed an orderly change of government for well over 200 years. Is that the "backwardness" angle?

 

[Air Jordan]

You have hit the bull

It was pro-Iran Govt of Iraq, which presented al zulfiqar holy sword to Rumsfeld after elimination of Saddam Govt during an official ceremony :-[

If you mean that Iran is trying to influence things among the Shia in Iraq I would completely agree. That threat was understood as far back as GWI. They are also trying to intimidate the smaller Gulf states. I do think things are a bit more complicated re the Iraqi government than you imply. They are, for eg., actively opposing, Sadr. At this stage, at least, you cannot legitimately claim that Iran calls the shots.

You will have to explain what the al zulfiqar holy sword is.

 

[MaiCarInMtl]

I know a few people from Lebanon (Tripoli) and they are so depressed about what is going on over there.

I'm not going to get into huge political discussions, but I think things may be better if foreign interest groups would just get out. I don't care which side of the fence groups are on or where they get their funding or take their orders (east, west, x,y,z religion). Just leave the lebanese people sort things out amongst themselves without foreign meddling.

Sometimes I wonder "Does no one care about Lebanon and it's people anymore?" when it comes to people with power there. It seems everyone is too busy carrying out their own agenda. A real shame, a real loss. God help them.

 

[Silver]

I know a few people from Lebanon (Tripoli) and they are so depressed about what is going on over there.

I'm not going to get into huge political discussions, but I think things may be better if foreign interest groups would just get out. I don't care which side of the fence groups are on or where they get their funding or take their orders (east, west, x,y,z religion). Just leave the lebanese people sort things out amongst themselves without foreign meddling.

Sometimes I wonder "Does no one care about Lebanon and it's people anymore?" when it comes to people with power there. It seems everyone is too busy carrying out their own agenda. A real shame, a real loss. God help them.

I myself am from Tripoli and yes we are all very depressed. Last week, on Thursday and Friday nobody even went to work even though everything was completely normal in Tripoli...and yes we would be better off without iranian-syrina-american-french-arab interference.

God help them

Thanks...

 

[Fishman]

but again, the lebanease goverment would never dare attack Israel, infact it would be funny if they did as they wud be crushed in 2 days as they are so incompetent and untrained and unsophisticated.

To attack Israel you have to be either an idiot or a US ally. It was stupid and irresponsible of Hezbollah to attack Israel, not not brave.

Israel has one of the best armies in the world. Although Hezbollah did drive them out eventually, look at the state of Lebanon afterwards. To call that a victory would be like celebrating after you killed a wild bear, even though your family has already been mauled to death.

 

[barney]

Interesting point of speculation; The west gets spadefulls of hate for their backing of the middle easts only democracy.
Lets say tommorow the US and Europe pulled all military backing away from Israel.
Would a Arab Coalition be able to defeet tehm. (defeat them)

 

[Fishman]

Interesting point of speculation; The west gets spadefulls of hate for their backing of the middle easts only democracy.
Lets say tommorow the US and Europe pulled all military backing away from Israel.
Would a Arab Coalition be able to defeet tehm. (defeat them)

If you are talking nuclear, then probably not. I'm not sure about conventionally, if Saudi and Iran were in the coalition they might pull it off.