That would also be the same Lebanon that Israel tore up from border to border a couple of summers ago in a fit of pique, while Pam Atlas cheered and Bush looked for a can of Bud.

Don’t these doofi know that Lebanese men don’t want to fight for anyone’s freedom, and will wear women’s clothing just to get out of the Army?

Remarkably stupid motherfuckers, aren’t they?

Hizbullah was the only organization effectively providing food, medicine and money to the Lebanese people during Israel’s rage fest, just as the Sadrists are providing food, medicine and money to many Iraqis. The Seniora government’s move to provoke Hizbullah seems suspiciously similar to al-Maliki’s attack on the Sadrists at Basra. It’s possible that Bushco pushed both governments to remove the “terrorists” in their midst in order to provide the Republicans with a talking point in November. As usual, Bushco failed to understand the situation on the ground and underestimated the difficulties of carrying out their grand designs.

One can only imagine what hip worldly American freedom lovers are closing their fists around…

No no no!

You cannot, cannot make me go there and imagine what the homunculi is holding.

The Islamofascists seem to have that whole “hearts and minds” thing down better than the Bush Misadministration.

Traditionally, the mosques provided charity to their neighborhoods. I’d guess that this led to Islamic governments neglecting to support their governed at the neighborhood level and to the acceptance of having non-government groups take care of the people. This works out well for groups like Hizbullah or the Mehdi Army because the people who receive largess from their charitable arms are loathe to denounce their presence to the government. T.E. Lawrence once observed that all it takes an insurgency to succeed is that the majority of the people remain complacent or even enthusiastic about having insurgents among them.

Had Bushco not been so enamored of ordnance and more thoughtful, they would have flooded the Iraqis with security, food, medicine, electricity and jobs. We could have inundated them with compact cars and $5000 debit cards to a better outcome. Hell, we could have put the billions spent post invasion in the form of twenty dollar bills on pallets in every town square and the outcome would have been better.

Instead, they tried to mix pseudo-Wilsonian military adventurism with their usual Chicago School masturbatory economic fantasies.

Well, there were pallets of $100 bills, but they didn’t end up going to the Iraqi’s who needed it. How many billion in cash deliveries are unaccounted for in Iraq? 9 billion or something close to that? Heck of a job!

Don’t laugh: these English-speaking Lebanese bloggers are probably some of the same people that Lisa of On the Face got to know during the Lebanon war. I have not checked that site yet.

Nothing on Lebanon, but
this excellent post on Israel at 60.

Capt, you make me smile.

Klinger is a Lebanese name?

I have to admit, I had to read the Cap’ns post twice before I caught the M*A*S*H reference.