Comments on: Israel strikes targets in Lebanon

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:08:51 +0000

Eventually Israel is going to have to stop Iran.
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The current boss of Iran has a life expectancy of about 5.6 years. His preferred successor was killed in a helicopter crash earlier this year and the current occupant of the President’s chair is a retired surgeon, not a cleric. Iranian foreign policy has, one can argue, been frozen in amber due to the longevity of some of the upper stratum. Imagine Pres. Kennedy was tangling with someone who had been in Lenin’s cabinet in 1920 and was two years older than Joseph Stalin. Iran’s foreign policy stances have been a function of ideological shticks and those erode over time.

By: sdferr

sdferr — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:24:55 +0000

Hogwash

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:22:54 +0000

when targeting irregular forces, probably pinpoint strikes are best, we have seen how strategic bombing had mixed results, to be charitable,

By: sdferr

sdferr — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:06:33 +0000

Israell “targets”, indeed, and so far as we can see, hits what it targets.

Israel also, however, does not “target” in Lebanon — what would under most every warfighting situation imaginable — those things one might expect to be targeted. Things such as transportation infrastructure, fuel depots, ports and harbors intaking resupply, airports, bridges, energy production plants, electrical transmission lines, transformer stations, water supply facilities, waste water treatment plants and so on. In general anything which can hamper the enemy’s war effort through disruption of social function.

Why? Why are they not?

Simple. Obama-Biden forbids it. This war, Obama-Biden says, must not be won.

By: F

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:48:12 +0000

Well, Michael K, that’s a pretty grim assessment. I hope you’re wrong.

By: Michael K

Michael K — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Eventually Israel is going to have to stop Iran. It will probably be a nuclear war. Maybe they can do a decapitation of the regime. It would be a shame if the Iranian people were in the way but we will have to see.

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:58:35 +0000

well damocles or whoever holds the scimitar tighter,

after the inquiry, conducted by germans, if memory served got nowhere, well whats the use yelling over lamb stew, the local dish

we know the 18 year expedition in lebanon didn’t take, perhaps if the shah had not been deposed in the first place, amal would have stayed quietist,

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:50:10 +0000

Stockholm syndrome, Lebanese style?

“Saad Hariri stirs up storm with comment understood to call for support to Hezbollah;
“Some lauded the former Prime Minister for his “national stances”, while others slammed him for commending those responsible his father’s assassination”—
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-821640

has “someone” been leaning on him hard?
(Or is this what he truly believes…?)

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:29:08 +0000

Time for a little “Compare and Contrast”:

“The Death of (Another) Hezbollah Lifer”—
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/death-another-hezbollah-lifer
H/T Powerline blog.
Brings to the forefront the absolute insanity of the current Western zeitgeist (with exceptions…but all too few).

“What will replace Hezbullah”
https://archive.ph/JysiV
H/T Blazingcatfur blog.

Fascinating article but with unconscionable—“REASONABLE”—conclusions.
Lord Halifax redux?

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:35:54 +0000

Left out is that Lebanon was 50% Christian prior to the arrival of the PLO in 1970.
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It was 54% Christian at the time of the last census in 1932. No one has had hard data on the share since. The PLO was very destructive, but comparative emigration and birth rates were an issue prior to that.