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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
If that's your big picture, your camera is too small. Either open your aperture or stand further back because there's a hell of a lot more actors in the play, than Israel and Hezbollah doing their dance, center stage.
You, yourself, said The White House ordered Israel to attack. We know Iran and Syria are part of the picture and probably many more we don't know for sure.
Everyone in the World has a stake in the Middle East turmoil.... some of them choose to drive that stake into the flesh of whomever they perceive as being against their own interests.  |
I did not say America ordered the attack. But Israel needed (or at least desired) American permission to conduct the seventh invasion of Lebanon. American support would be essential to running interference in the UN and elsewhere. But even the US is but a sidebar to the big picture.
Syria and Iran are about as relevant to the Israeli Hezbollah conflict as the US was to the IRA / UK war and "Bloody Sunday". This latest conflict was a battle between Hezbollah - a militia created to drive Israel out of Lebanon - and Israel. Israel, for confused and mysterious reasons tried to drag the Lebanon Army into the conflict by attacking all of Lebanon.
Propagandists have spun myths of Syria and Iran pulling strings on a puppet called Hezbollah. Nonsense. Total nonsense. Valid only if the US sponsored IRA terrorism in the UK. Again, Syria and Iran exist only in propaganda to divert attention away from a big picture. The big picture is Hezbollah and Israel where the latter tried to drag others into a quagmire.
You are letting propaganda keep you from the complex issue. What was Israel doing attacking all of Lebanon with airplanes when their problem was only in 20 miles south of the Latani river? Why did Israel violate good military doctrine and not send in ground troops for so long? Those questions are complex. Peripheral issues such as Syria, Iran, etc are nonsense only promoted by propagandists who are alive, well, and very active.