The New Front on the War in Terror
The Dunce in Chief suggested today that Lebanon was the new front in the war on terror. If Lebanon is a new front in the war on terror, we have a problem. We have failed to shut down the front on terror in Afghanistan, and have created one in Iraq. And that doesn't count the actual war on terror--the one we fight at home (or in Europe) regardless of the fight at the now multiple over theres. We can't afford any more fronts.
Fighting a war on one front is difficult and we have failed. Fighting it on two, is very difficult and we have failed spectacularly. We can not hope to succeed on a third front. We can't afford to fight this war on any more fronts.
This rhetoric is of course just another way to stoke the State of Fear to distract us from his pathetic leadership on everything from Katrina to foreign policy and the economy.
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I think Jon Stewart said it best when he asked McCain how much more safe the US could afford for Bush to make us.
Hopefully, the United Nations can show some real usefulness here, and apply the pressure needed to take us back from the brink.
As we speak, that international force is getting together made up of French, Italian, Malaysian and Turkish troops. While Hezbollah might win the media war while attacking Israeli troops, they may not be so lucky if they attack the whole of the International Community - especially with three Muslim nations (Turkey, Malaysia and Lebanon) present in the peacekeeping efforts.
That's what we can hope for, anyway. Robert E. Lee said, famously, "it is good war is so terrible, else we become too fond of it." I pray that these recent wars have reminded the world of the price we pay when hotheads run things.
Off the subject but of great importance…..Clayton James Cubitt http://operationeden.blogspot.com/2006/08/katrina-every-day.html will be here over the next week making portraits of survivors for use in public service announcements highlighting the need to reach out for help when it all gets to be too much. Anyone who would like to participate, contact: travelingmermaid@gmail.com
We've fallen victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia"...
OK, so we've fallen victim to the most famous classic blunder.
What ever happened to the Cedar Revolution and the move toward democracy, despite the attempt to incite a civil war by assassinating Rafiq Hariri. Lebanon was waiting for U.S. military support to disarm the Hezbollah. That pretty much shows what the U.S. priorities really are -- democracy for the Arab world is a sham.
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