tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post115593472200999219..comments2024-03-26T16:03:42.608-06:00Comments on Flares into Darkness: Barone on Iran and Hezbellahambisinistralhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03836786826294202405noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1155969138296545592006-08-19T00:32:00.000-06:002006-08-19T00:32:00.000-06:00terrye - i was just reading the Totten link and th...terrye - <BR/><BR/>i was just reading the Totten link and thinking the same thing:<BR/><BR/>"The so-called Party of God can menace, bully, and sabotage Lebanon. (They are especially good at the latter.) Hassan Nasrallah’s “martyrs” can terrorize Israel. But they cannot repel an invading army. They can only harass that army and kill a miniscule percentage of its soldiers and dent it by one tenth of one percent."<BR/><BR/>Sharon set up the Gaza thugs for their rightful future:<BR/><BR/>be a responsible neighbor <BR/>or pay the price for <BR/>for agressive behavior <BR/>as a state-actor.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps Nasrallah will dig in<BR/>and perceive himself to be "Lebanon" and meet the same<BR/>fate.gumshoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10567181585153569751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1155945370750958362006-08-18T17:56:00.000-06:002006-08-18T17:56:00.000-06:00Maybe Lebanon will prove a quagmire for Iran.It wo...Maybe Lebanon will prove a quagmire for Iran.<BR/><BR/>It would be a shame if Israel blew the hell out of the place after they spent all that money.terryehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16609746018265953069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1155942937822326572006-08-18T17:15:00.000-06:002006-08-18T17:15:00.000-06:00Yes, the Iranians have proven the rightness of the...Yes, the Iranians have proven the rightness of the Bush doctrine in more ways than one. Not only is an Iran that arms terrorists untenable to world peace and security, but so is a Lebanon that does not move more surely towards legitimating its democracy and building a state with the means to destroy the "anti-democratic" (whatever its partipation in elections) mafia state within it.truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.com