Comments on: Seven Years Later, Israel Gets the Bush Doctrine

By: Ziggy Zoggy

Ziggy Zoggy — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:23:44 +0000

Mo Lester,

Israel terrorized Lebanon? Counter terrorism doesn’t exist?

Spare us your Shia nonsense.

By: lester

lester — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:45:30 +0000

there’s no such thing as counter-terrorism. israel terrorized lebanon to try and get hezbollah to stop terrorizing them. theydidn’t counter terrorize lebanon.

counter terrorism would be if israel sent viruses to hezbollah memebers computers or something. it’s not really techincally possible to have counter terrorism

By: oao

oao — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:18:13 +0000

the context was the piece interpreting the warning to syria as “israel gets the bush doctrine”. my point was that such warnings were given in the past and even when hezbollah gave reason to act on the warning, barak did not. so these warnings have little credibility, they are essentially attempts to obscure lack of willingness to act. israel used to act, not talk. now it’s hamas and hezbollah who do that. olmert and barak make strong but clearly infantile statements and shortly later do the exact opposite and give in, because they have no answer to the missiles and are desperate to appease the world (which is the path to perdition). they did it in 2006 war and they just did it with gaza. they lost their deterrent but try to cover it by talk. it’s pathetic.

By: YbA

YbA — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:44:20 +0000

oao

I agree as I posted on another piece here - but I’m not sure that Israel could swing an attack on Syria as a result of any Palestinian terrorism? (I guess they could make a tenuous argument about Meshaal being in Damascus but this wouldn’t be bought by any European state let alone NAM etc).

By: oao

oao — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:56:28 +0000

YbA,

correct in main.

however, a conflagration with syria may change the situation and force iran to respond, in which case internal lebanese issues won’t matter much.

By: YbA

YbA — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:34:32 +0000

Hizbullah didn’t get involved because they know the rest of the Lebanese factions would be infuriated by them dragging the state into another unnecessary war with Israel. They are still recovering from the last conflict and lets be honest - the rest of the Lebanese really don’t care that much for the Palestinians (as evidenced by the distinct lack of popular protest when the Lebanese army was levelling the Nahr el-Bared UNRWA camp).

By: oao

oao — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:11:55 +0000

i wouldn’t put too much faith into the warning to syria. israel used to DO things, not warn. when you warn a lot, it signals you prefer not to be forced to act. the warner is the same barak who did the same when he left lebanon, who accepted hezbollah attacks for years and who did not do anything to syria in 2006.

brazell,

bush has put his tails between his legs and reversed all his policies, not just the bush doctrine

miller,

they’ve already done that and they’re doing it daily.

sully,

yes, probably you’re the only one.

mike,

don’t feed the troll.

oao
http://fallofknowledgeandreason.blogspot.com/

By: Michael J. Totten

Michael J. Totten — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:49:12 +0000

Lester,

Counter-terrorism isn’t terrorism. 2 + 4 does not equal 5.

By: lester

lester — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:26:51 +0000

the palestinians haven’ achieved their goals thruogh terrorism and neither will we.

By: Sully

Sully — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:20:21 +0000

Am I the only one who sees a possible connection between the planned Israeli military exercise that begins on April 6th and the recent resignation of Admiral Fallon as head of Centcom which appeared to be related to the subject of what to do about Iran?

By: Bob Miller

Bob Miller — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:42:02 +0000

And when Secretary Rice, as President Bush’s agent. gives Israel a direct order (probably behind the scenes) not to implement the Bush Doctrine, will we be surprised?

By: Brazell

Brazell — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:40:07 +0000

Perhaps if the architect of the Bush doctrine were more willing to put it into practice, we might see more countries across the globe taking it to heart.