Bush's Shrinking Safety Zone

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

You believe Hezbollah is not in Beirut?

I asked that yesterday. Got no answer. TW remained silent. There are only two possibilities. One possibility: TW does not know Hezbollah controls large areas of Beirut. Which would be unthinkable to someone who claims to know so much about the region.

No, TW remained silent because he knows damn well there are Hezbollah in Beirut, and in Tripoli and Tyre and Sidon as well. TW wanted those attacks to be attacks on innocent Lebanese, and so he made them such. Because he disapproves of anything that Israel does and wants to paint the worst possible picture.

Of course there were Hezbollah in Beirut. The question is whether leveling the city to get to them is reasonable. It's not like the Lebanese can turn them in to the police. If someone carpet bombed my neighborhood to flush out the Republicans, I'd be pretty pissed.

Bush has already stated that Israel defeated Hezbollah. This of course is wonderful news to anyone who doesn't know any better. I'm really hoping he will declare a coalition victory in Iraq tomorrow so we can bring everyone home.

On Bush's first day back from vacation, his motorcade traveled between the White House and State and Defense departments for meetings on transforming the U.S. military, on homeland security and on the warfare in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Sectarian violence has surged in Iraq and created what some consider the greatest threat to stability there since Saddam Hussein's government was toppled three years ago. Meanwhile, efforts to get North Korea and Iran to restrict their nuclear ambitions remained stalled.

I'm so very glad he's back from vacation. Maybe Condi left a few 'while you were out' post-its on his desk.

BTW, Israel does have a right to exist and does have the right to defend itself. But instead of trying to hit the rocket sites they started an invasion which ended in a cease fire. A cease fire with an opposition force that they would have not had to acknowledge if they had simply reacted to the immediate threat.