Lebanon draws closer to the edge....

[Major.Stupidity]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071123/...banon_election

Thoughts?

[Kiljan Arslan]

Hes happy that his hizbellah goons killed off enough of the prowestern peolpe. Lebanon needs to be independent not syrias puppet.

[Earl of Rochester]

A moderate nation in the middle east is really too much to hope for these days...

[Kiljan Arslan]

Its technicly moderate it just has a neighbor state that wants to control it through funding the Far right extremists.

[Earl of Rochester]

Half the country is run by a terrorist organization that holds wide support from the populace. Not exactly what I would call moderate.

[Kiljan Arslan]

And that Terrorist orginization is mostly6 funded by Iran and Syria.

[Earl of Rochester]

And yet the people support it.

[Kiljan Arslan]

Because they are lied to and told Isreal is at fault for all the nations wrongs.

[Earl of Rochester]

And if they belief that then they can hardly be labeled moderate.

[Major.Stupidity]

Because they are lied to and told Isreal is at fault for all the nations wrongs.

Well, considering what Israel has done to Lebanon over the years, who can blame them....1978, 1982, 2006,..Yea...

[Kiljan Arslan]

welll when compared to the countries of the Arab peninsula oregypt its quite moderate.

[Earl of Rochester]

Oh no doubt. When compared to its neighbors Lebanon is a shining beacon of hope. Unfortunately that is not terribly meaningful.

Outside of a few oil city-states, the most moderate thing the Arab world has is a country whom the de facto ruler in half the country is a terrorist organization that wants to completely annihilate its neighbor.

[Kiljan Arslan]

I pearsonally say the opposition needs orginize a good old fashioned night of long knives on hizbellah.

[Earl of Rochester]

Won't do any good when a majority of the population supports them. Heck only six countries have the balls to call them terrorists...

[Kiljan Arslan]

Considering how Syria however has actually funded terrorist inside its country and tried yto turn it into a puppet state..

[Major.Stupidity]

Considering how Syria however has actually funded terrorist inside its country and tried yto turn it into a puppet state..

Same could be said with Israel supporting the Phalangilist militia during the Civil War, its a two way street...

Another link on the Lebanese crises..

http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article3191532.ece

[Kiljan Arslan]

Yes well Issreal backed off not the same for Syria. Oh and you know the 2006 conflict that was started when hizbellah attack Israeli soldiers inside the Costal area of Isreal not the Shebba farms area.

[Major.Stupidity]

Yes well Issreal backed off not the same for Syria. Oh and you know the 2006 conflict that was started when hizbellah attack Israeli soldiers inside the Costal area of Isreal not the Shebba farms area.

But at the same time Israel's response was too heavy handed to an event which had occurred previous times, with out the bloody aftermath.

[Snoopy]

Syria funds Hezbollah.

And?...

Just because someone funds Lebanon doesn't suddenly mean they are the cause of all evils.

Actually, if Syria didn't fund Lebanon, Israel would be larger, and Lebanon wouldn't appear on maps.

[Kiljan Arslan]

Uh Isreal has no intention to go after Lebanon now Syria on the other hand dose.