Comments on: YOUR DIPLOMATIC SCORECARD

By: crater 06

crater 06 — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 22:53:37 +0000

Isreal will not stop until the buffer zone for the rockets they know Hizbollah has will not reach their teritory. I can’t say that I blame them. The tragedy in this situation is the ineffective government of Lebanon. Had they begun to form effective infrastructure support agencies and co-oped Hizbollah support for civilian needs as well as having it form the backbone of the Lebanese Military, we wouldn’t be here. If only there was more time.

It will be interesting to monitor the level of attacks on US troops in the Anbar province from now until Isreal reaches NE of Beruit, North of the river I can’t remember the name of. I wager that we see a 50% drop. Now is the time to pressure terrorist fighters there, in Anbar. A coordinated effort between Isreal and US Special Forces, opeerating in Syria, could reduce the effectiveness of arms migrating in either direction. US forces could reduce their presence in Anbar and move to bolster Baghdad. This will act to put pressure on Iran and its attempts to move arms into both Iraq and Syria/Lebanon.

I am also willing to wager that US diplomacy is putting pressure on the Kurdish areas of Iraq to assist with clamping down, or allowing the confiscation of, ANY military hardware moving west across the Iraqi/Iranian border North of Baghdad. The issue there would be Turkey and their hatred of the Kurds. I believe a cheap oil deal is in the works between the Kurds and Turkey with the US as broker and guarentor of future peace efforts between Turkey and its indigenous Kurdish population. If that happened, I would HATE to be Syria. An easily riled neighbor, Turkey, with our air bases, a guarantee of peace with its’ Kurdish population, and a secure Iraqi/Iranian border from Baghdad east to the northern border of Iran would spell hell, and therefor more security for Isreal.

By: A Blog For All

A Blog For All — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 22:15:22 +0000

Diplomacy and the Hounds of Hell, Part XIX

Mrs. Lawhawk pointed me to Time Magazine this week, which has a whole bunch of stories about Lebanon, Hizbullah and the current conflict. Among the stories is one on who exactly will disarm Hizbullah and specifically at the Lebanese military’s inabil…

By: GawainsGhost

GawainsGhost — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:32:32 +0000

For the best insight into this subject, see Victor Davis Hanson’s latest article on National Review Online. It’s like deja vu all over again.

By: diamond

diamond — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 04:28:23 +0000

Now this is just a “what if”. Israel is working her way North to eventually bomb the WMD burial site. Gee hope that all the nukes, gas and powders that Iraq doesn’t have doesn’t ruin the country that agreed to hide shitloads of this stuff. So before this site gets target a whole lot of people will run in the way. Blue helmuts, Red Cross, Pope, carter or maybe clinton. If that doesn’t work I expect that the two military men taken by these terrorist will be put front and center.

By: Geo

Geo — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 01:43:19 +0000

This may work. Israel continue the bombings and the ground forces keep killing Hezbollah forces until there are no more rockets capable of hitting Israel. A bounty placed upon Nasrallahs head along with secret assassination edicts on the Iranian leaders. A few stray missiles upon Tehran. It is only a matter of time when the Iranian government has to be taken down. The Mullahs have strengthened their internal defences and it will ultimately have to be an outside party to take them down.

By: Marv

Marv — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:32:51 +0000

Ya know, back in the old days when I was a kid there were a couple of kids who always got into fights. Everytime they saw each other they would get into it. They were always broken up by the neighbors until one time one of the parents had finally had enough and let them duke it out until it was done. That was the end of tha, no more fights between them.

I say “to hell with a cease fire” let them duke it out until someone gets their butt kicked and goes home with a bloody nose. I suspect that will lead to a longer “lasting peace” than any of the previous attempts.

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:01:58 +0000

The louder the calls for a ceasefire indicates to me that Israel is beating the crap out of the the Hezbos.

By: The Anchoress

The Anchoress — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 19:50:48 +0000

Israel: “Never again” rings hollow in the warming globe

In early 2005 I wrote that the tenor of the times was beginning to remind me of Europe in the early 1930’s. I wrote:
Although they are convinced of their moral and intellectual superiority over Republicans and conservatives, the Dems are neve…