The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #94105   Message #1820170
Posted By: Ron Davies
27-Aug-06 - 04:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: Has the U.S. been defeated?
Subject: RE: BS: Has the U.S. been defeated?
Peace is correct. We are at great risk of WW III at this point. Which again points out why Israel's general attack on Lebanon was criminally stupid--or worse. Given that the elimination of Hezbollah was always an absurdly unrealistic goal, next best is the closest possible monitoring of Hezbollah--to make sure it's not getting access to nuclear technology.

Instead of that, Israel's attack on Lebanon has done nothing but strengthen Hezbollah, raise its reputation throughout the Arab world--among poor Shiites at least--and weaken the non-Hezbollah parts of the Lebanese government--which would have been in the best position to do this monitoring.