Some thoughts about the Middle East

The media has clung onto the idea that this latest Middle East conflict with Israel was a victory for Hezbollah. David Warren even asks “Can Israel survive this?” The fight was not fought as it should have been by Israel who should of increased the response to a level where they could have achieved their objectives. I see this Israeli government ending and a more conservative on taking over, and possible more military control over their matters. I don’t see the catastrophe that the media does.

The media also keeps on mentioning that the cease fire will not hold, but so far it has. Watching the only English station that I have (CNN) there was even talk of the cease fire not going into effect. Here we are, cease fire in effect, Lebanon declaring that they are going to disarm Hezbollah, and Israel learning a valuable lesion about how to take on their opponents.

What the media has failed to recognize that that this “war” is not over. More likely if conflict was going to happen again it will be within Lebanon between the anti-Hezbollah forces and Hezbollah. The media also has failed to recognize a major turning point in this war, moderate states condemned Hezbollah and acknowledged that they were the aggressors. Not Syria and Iran of course, they see it as a victory because the battle was put off another day.

The media needs to understand that the conflict is not over, and that it is more linked to Iraq than they will recognize. One more thing, why are they accepting Mr. Bush taking credit for what the British did in aborting a terror plot, and Israel’s attack on Hezbollah? The last I had heard was that the United States wasn’t involved in these, but his zombie supporters will now take the credit. The spineless president can not has moved on to taking credit for other people’s work. We forget that there has been an INCREASE in terrorism because of him. There are 3000 people dying in Iraq every day, there was a London bombing, a Madrid Bombing, and continuous bombings in Afghanistan still. Jed Babbin’s column has a good discussion about how the spineless president’s tactics on the war on terror have failed and we live in a more dangerous world because of it.