Seriously, WTF???
Israeli vice premier, Shimon Peres, appealed to the Lebanese people to sideline Hezbollah, saying it was a cancer in their midst. "You proved that you could throw the Syrians out of the country, and you can rid your country of the weapons of Hezbollah," Peres said of the Lebanese.
"This could be your great opportunity," Peres said. "You have at your service an army of 80,000 troops. Where are they?"
WTF???
Israel repeatedly bombed Lebanese military bases over the last two weeks and Peres has the unmitigated gall to ask the Lebanese people where the fuck their army is? Not to mention the fact that international military experts only consider half of the Lebanese army, at best, to be competent, well trained soldiers.
Meanwhile we're already seeing the completely predictable seeds of future militants springing out of the rubble in Lebanon.
What a clusterfuck... And your tax dollars are being spent to keep it going and going and going.
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Lebanon was closer to a successful democracy than any Arab nation, and this is the reward they get. Lectures from Peres and Rice.
Somewhere, Kahlil Gibran must be trading in his pen for a shoulder mounted rocket launcher.
ROFL excellent one liner, Kev... even if the context is very sobering.
You're right about Lebanon, of course. Arguably more compelling, IMHO, is that they appeared to be closer to creating a truly magnificent society the likes of which no other nation in the region would have compared favorably with without undergoing some major societal changes of their own. And that, I suspect, can be chalked up primarily to the highly diverse nature of the Lebanese people. Sunni, Shia, Druze, Marionite, Catholic, Orthodox, etc. Which of her neighbors can compare?
I know I'm running out of head to scratch.
didn't the lebanese say they were going to deploy their army against Israel?
Yes, the Lebanese did say that they were going to deploy their army if Israel invaded. Nobody was sure just what to make of that assertion. However, commentators have pointed out that the Lebanese Constitution requires the army to defend Lebanese soil.
I don't really know anything about it other than what I've read and heard, but from the context I think a fair conclussion to draw would be that the Lebanese constitution stipulates with much more specificity what sorts of responses are expected of the army than one finds in a typical nation's constitution.
BTW, Israel reportedly bombed another Lebanese base today.
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