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Has there ever been peace in Lebanon? Where does all the prosperity come from?
Posted to
Explainer
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david wayne osedach
on
June 9, 2009
lebanon
This second front needs to be smashed before it gets off the ground. Lebanon has no part of this war. Iran does.
Posted to
Today's Papers
by
david wayne osedach
on
January 8, 2009
Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran or Just Kiddin'?
Senator McCain seems to have a lock on the Republican nomination. The Democratic race is leaning Obama, but Team Clinton has a long record of coming from behind (no pun intended). If dirt is to be dug up and thrown, Bilary and Co. will be shoveling fast and hard. So, McCain vs. Whom? If McCain does win, what happens to Pax Americana? ...
Posted to
Foreigners
by
IMKessel
on
February 14, 2008
Krebs Can't Shake Imperial Thinking
It seems like so many pundits, thinkers, politicans, and leaders in America just can't shake the mindset that America must advance its interests abroad through conniving double talk, backstabbing hypocricy, and cutthroat manicheanism. Its like the abuser that beats his kids, realizes its wrong, but resorts back to beating them because it just ...
Posted to
Foreigners
by
Usama2
on
January 4, 2008
Re: If Israel couldn't defeat Lebanon in 2006,
Time4CommonSense: they had better stay the hell away from going after Iran! Many Israeli's feel that they didn't win in the recent Lebanon adventure (2006) against a Country not known as being very militarily powerful. I think Israel would be acting ''stupidly'' if they provoked Iran right now. In the 2006 Lebanon war, Israel was fighting ...
Posted to
Foreigners
by
gzuckier
on
December 13, 2007
syria bites lebanon, again
All the more tragic, in view that Syria is looking more and more like the linchpin in the middle east. As ill fitting as the alliance between Shiite Persian theocracy Iran and Sunni Arab Baathist Syria is, it was officially formed in 2005(?), after Syria got some heat for assassinating the Lebanese prime minister, on the official grounds that they ...
Posted to
Today's Blogs
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gzuckier
on
December 13, 2007