We've sure been the best friend to the Lebanese.
The Lebanese government permitted an illegal militia to be armed and funded by foreign powers seeking to use it as a proxy to undermine the Lebanese government and perpetrate aggression against a neighboring country.
That doesn't sound like the Lebanese have been very friendly to me. Thus, don't the Lebanese people bear the blame for its government's refusal to disarm Hizbullah?
And anyway, this is between the Israeli's and Lebanese. The US did not participate in the war. And selling weapons to Israel, A SOVEREIGN STATE, is not the same as Iran and Syria providing weapons to a NON-STATE organization, Hizbullah.
Why doesn't Syria and Iran provide such weapons to the Lebanese Government??
Could it be because Syria doesn't recognize the state of Lebanon, and Iran has no interest in strengthening the Lebanese Government's ability to exercise its own sovereignty?
No, I mean the amnesty program and jobs the Russian have offered the terrorists. Ten years of war against the Islamo-fascist-intransgient-sociopathic-Caliphate-child murdering terrorists and they end up offering them amnesty and 160,000-170,000 jobs and a reduction in Russian troop levels.
None of which, I dare say, would have been possible PRIOR to the deaths of Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov.
That was the "stick" and now they are offering the "carrot".
It's the very same policy that the US (which is also "encouraging" Iraq's goverment to follow suit) is offering to the Sunnis.
In fact, more and more Sunnis, previously dead set against the presence of the US, are calling for the US to remain and protect their interests as they assimilate into the new power structure.
It's all about being "magnanimous" in victory.
Btw, I notice ONCE AGAIN, you have failed to provide your strategy of how to defeat terrorism and how our nation should act.
Just more of your incessant, and pathetic whining.
Too early in the morning for you?
Hawk |
