Iran’s Reach


A map showing the range of Iranian built missiles that Hezbollah may have possession of.

A variant of the buffer zone solution was tried in the past, when Israel occupied southern Lebanon after the 1982 invasion and supported the South Lebanese Army. Israel maintained a force of several thousand troops in southern Lebanon, with the brunt of the security provided by the SLA. In May of 2000, Israel withdrew from Southern Lebanon without warning, and the SLA was overrun by Hezbollah. The Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon handed Hezbollah its greatest victory to date, as it could claim it drove the “Israeli occupiers” from the country and promoted itself as a legitimate “resistance force”.
Six years later, Hezbollah is a state within a state, with the ability to start a war and conduct missile strikes deep into Israeli territory. Hezbollah possesses an arsenal of over 11,500 missiles, supplied by Iran. Asharq Al-Awsat gives additional information of Hezbollah’s capabilities and Iran’s involvement in funding, arming and training Hezbollah to use advanced weaponry:

The rest of the discussion at Counterterrorism Blog. Map courtesy Kathryn Cramer. (Click here to view a full size version).

33 Replies to “Iran’s Reach”

  1. if it is a known fact that iran and syria support hezbollah why don’t israel, the U.S.A. and any other country that consider hezbollah a terrorist organization go take out the source of the terror. i thought after 9/11 that the states made an ultimatum that any country that supports or harbours terror organizations would be considered part of those organizations, by supporting hezbollah syria and iran have clearly indicated which side they are on. yes countless people would die but in the long run the world would be a better place. apparently Israel is worried that if syrias current leader were gone that a more fundamentalist regime would take over, which might happen but how can anyone justify appeasing a government that supports terrorism because of what could be ?

  2. I seem to faintly remember Bush saying something about’you’re either with us or against us’….
    Actually,you can also add Pakistan to the list of countries harbouring terrorists who are being given a free pass by the west.

  3. Has anyone else determined that the attitudes of ‘R’ and others is an offshoot of the Stockholm Syndrome? Seems to me that identifying with those who mean you the most harm is psychological cowardice of the worst kind, as those who practice it appear to believe that they, (instead of being the snivelling toadies they are), by identifying with real oppressors, are ‘rebels against oppression’. Weird.

  4. In a spur-of-the-moment lapse in judgment this morning,* I actually bought a copy of The Independent, that Rodney Dangerfield of “serious”** British newspapers.
    There on page 3, masquerading as news, was a column by every angry Islamist crowd’s favourite infidel target: Robert Fisk.
    And what a column it was. Robert must be so pleased that the evil Israelis started this latest fracas so he can personally vent his spleen on the state of the universe.
    My favourite part:
    “So the war is now ‘blow up my city and I’ll blow up one of yours’. But wasn’t that happening on a slightly larger scale in a different part of the world between 1939 and 1945? And did it work?”
    Answer to Fiskie: as a matter of fact, it did. We defeated Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan quite conclusively, thank you.
    * No doubt because of the heat and overcrowding in the London Underground – all the fault of George Bush of course.
    ** As opposed to the irredeemably vulgar “red top” tabloids.

  5. Hezbollah a state within a state.
    Canada has dozens of “first nations” within a nation. Dont expect the eventual outcome of such a policy to be different. These “social agencies” are funded, sometimes armed, have separate justice systems and a culture of blame.

  6. R,
    Nice job of equating:
    1. the only true democracy in the middle east with a theocratic terror sponsoring one, and
    2. weapons that democracy possesses as a deterrent against it’s complete destruction with weapons possessed by the theocratic terror sponsoring which has vowed to destroy the democracy.
    Gotta love the fact that many of today’s left are hitching their collective horses to the terrorists wagons. Such principled people.

  7. Wretchard says the world crisis is no longer about Israel’s existence.
    They have everything to do with what Paul Sheehan called the three strains: Wahabism, Iranian radical Islamism and Pakistani-Islamic nationalism. We may argue whether it is just those three. …
    Excerpt:
    Richard Cohen, writing in the Washington Post understands that we have come to very edge of the precipice and has decided to leap the other way: not the road into Syria, but Israel into oblivion.
    The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake. It is an honest mistake, a well-intentioned mistake, a mistake for which no one is culpable, but the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians) has produced a century of warfare and terrorism of the sort we are seeing now. Israel fights Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in the south, but its most formidable enemy is history itself.
    “Never Again” lasted all of sixty years.
    …-
    Comments: Excerpt
    wretchard said…
    Teresita,
    I didn’t write that. Cohen did. And I think Cohen’s mistake is in hearkening back to some imaginary Middle East, populated by Saladin waging doughty war against the Crusaders. The Jews are no longer at the center of this problem. Events in Mumbai, Chechnya, Bosnia, Thailand, Bali, the Philippines and Denmark have nothing more to do with Israel. They have everything to do with what Paul Sheehan called the three strains: Wahabism, Iranian radical Islamism and Pakistani-Islamic nationalism. We may argue whether it is just those three. But the point is that the world crisis is no longer about Israel’s existence. …
    http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2006/07/dark-crossroads.html

  8. “I think Cohen’s mistake is in hearkening back to some imaginary Middle East, populated by Saladin waging doughty war against the Crusaders.”
    Ah yes, the age-old pissing contest about the “Crusades” of course.
    What people forget is that until about the 7th Century AD, the Holy Land and near Middle East was wholly Christian – the Muslims were the invaders.
    The Crusades were a belated response to this.
    The irony is that the current crop of Islamist extremists, with their insane yammering about regaining “lost” Muslim territory, sound very much like – Crusaders.

  9. I find the new found pro Israeli, war mentality of the usual MSM subjects to be quite humorous…particualrly when the foot notes and personal musings of the authors of “Project For the New American Century” had indicated a need to “pacify” both Syria, and Iran some 8 years ago. Zbigniew Brzezinski called for “provioking actions similar to pearl harbour” where Americans are killed in mass as being necessary to spur the American people into the long term pro-war mentality needed to sustain a protracted pacifying conflict in the Middle east. Neocon policy mentors identified Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq as hostile or unstable fascist regimes. All the cues where there for the MSM to pick up on the long term US policy for the middle east…the policy will be supported by both houses despite who is in the oval office…this is a “Republicrat” play book.
    This week we see both Reuters and AP issuing one report after another trying to link the actions by Lebanese fanatics to Syrian and Iranian miltary support networks ( most have been proven exagerations at best)
    I believe the current strategy (with all the undue attention focusing on Syria and Iranian ties to Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the new agressive Israeli military policy in the region), is to set Lebanon up as a judas goat contemporary of Baathist Syria and Iranian statist fanaticism…it is providing the “provocation action” to proceed into Lebanon’s “support systems” ( Iran and Syria). As was predicted in the Zbigniew Brzezinski’s manual for neo-con/neo-dem mid east policy.
    I expect to see a larger role for Israel in advancing US military policy in the region and a larger role in the military dissolution of Baathist facism in the region. I predict we will be in either Syria (most likely) or Iran before the fall ends. Because of it we will see a reversal in sliding GOP numbers as no one votes out an incumbant government in war time.
    Generally US saber rattling in the mid east has been good for Canadian industry and our dollar but I wish Harper was more adamant about stemming immigration from this region during the conflict (which could last the decade or longer) The wider and more intense the conflict, the hotter it will get for muslim fanatics and the more likely these fanatics will attempt to escape to Europe or Canada… many through immigration channels.

  10. Editor’s note: commentors who address me as “KHate” (or by any other derogative term) can anticipate the removal of their writings.

  11. All of the commentary at Wretchard’s blog (thanks maz2) are excellent.
    As noted, the conflict is not about Israel-Palestine; it’s about Islamic fascism taking over the ME and expanding into the West. That’s the agenda of Iran/Syria. They started this current Hezbollah/Hamas war, using these militant groups as fronts for the real fascist agenda of war.
    But, the other Arab states, such as Jordan, Egypt and Iraq – aren’t so keen on that. Saudi Arabia is totalitarian tribal, but it doesn’t want Iran’s Al Qaeda tribalism; it prefers its own tribalism.
    Note how quiet the other Arab states are about this current Israel-Hezbollah/Hamas conflict.
    Note also, the opportunism of France, which would very much like back into its former colony of Lebanon, even as head of a so-called UN Peace Force.
    As I keep ranting on about, one has to differentiate between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is about land, state rights, etc – and Islamic fascism, which has emerged over the last two decades. It has emerged as a result of the rejection of civic government in favour of kin-based tribal gov’t. Israel, as a democracy has merely ‘tweaked’ the doorbell of political change in the ME area, but this has nothing to do with the Israel-Palestine land/nationhood rights. And most Arab nations consider Palestinians as ‘illiterate peasants’; their real focus is the rejection of a civic political system.
    The ME population is now too large for kin-based gov’t and you can only ‘silence’ the population from a desire for economic and political participation by force – in this case, the emotional force of a religious dogma, islamic fascism, with concomitant diversionary emotive forces of inserting an Evil Enemy, cults of martyrdom, apocalyptic scenarios etc.
    There are several ‘battle zones’. There is the ME, which is the centre of the zone, (again, not because of Israel-Palestine) but because these nations are refusing a civic political and economic mode. The battle is being fought under the ‘front’ of its being part of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Again, the ME states don’t give a damn about Palestinians; their focus is on retaining their own tribal structures.
    The other battle zones are in the West – with the spread of Islamic fascism into the west. This due to the ME’s development of this dogma, as a means to prevent civic gov’t, which would end the power of tribalism, and, due to the isolationism of the West’s policy of multiculturalism.
    The West has to stand up against islamic fascism and reject its demands, its claims, its insistence on support. It has to stand up against islamic fascism both in the ME and in its own nations.

  12. Kate:
    Re: “Editors note”
    Good. I’m astonished by the amount of crap you do put up with! That silly stuff is not only insulting to you, but significantly lowers the level of civilized discourse on your blog.
    Delete away! I certainly enjoy your blog, and feel you should be vigorous in sweeping out the trash…

  13. “W L Mackenzie redux”:
    Your last post places you firmly in the “conspiracy nut” category.
    What’s next from you? An exposé on how Kissinger and the Bilderberg group are holding Elvis at a secret location in the Mojave Desert?

  14. CAL2 – Your comment is dead on and my feelings exactly. Politicians of all stripes are so stupid regarding our own Indian problems and O so out of touch with reality. Canada can look forward to the horrendous problems created with states within a state.

  15. New York WTC 9/11, Madrid, Bali, London, Mumbai (Bombay), Toronto Muslim terrorists, Khobar Towers, USS Cole, and etc., are all of a piece:
    Islamic genocide has been let loose upon the entire world.
    Hezbollah is but one group aiming at the destruction of Western civilization and all other nations, including India. China is lurking in the background serving as the armourer, financier; a hyena nation. As for Russia, Churchill’s axiom still stands: “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
    Hezbollah is a worldwide web with sleeper cells in Canada/USA, etc. When the time/circumstances are figured by the HQ in Iran to be right, the cells will explode with a vengeance.
    LGF has this posted: Ignore this at your peril. …-
    Iranian Hizballah Threatens Attacks
    The Iranian branch of Hizballah, which al-Reuters quaintly insists may not be linked to the Lebanese Hizballah, is threatening to attack the United States and Israel.
    TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s Hizbollah, which claims links to the Lebanese group of the same name, said on Tuesday it stood ready to attack Israeli and U.S. interests worldwide

  16. Mad Mike,
    One person’s trash is another person’s treasure.
    Kate does an excellent job managing the ‘trash’. I give her full props for allowing some apparent trash to find its way into these posts. It shows that she really is interested in the quality of discourse on her blog and that it doesn’t descend into a mutual admiration society for a small group of ‘in’ people.

  17. ET,
    Perhaps because you’re an atheist you can’t possible consider that the brainwashing cult of Islam is the root cause of the regions problems, and not tribalism?
    Hell, consider the 17 Canadian born terrorists. Is their root cause ME tribalism, or their interpretation of the Quran?
    Might the suras in the Quran have something to do with this?
    On behalf of Allah (not tribalism), these verses sound pretty convincing: “Strike off their heads”, “Slay the idolaters”, “Fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah” (Qur’an 8:12, 9:5, 8:39)
    What about Islams 1500 year history of violence, recently fueled by oil?
    Islamic facsism certainly hasn’t “…emerged over the last two decades.”

  18. I guess I am also a hate-monger for posting this (from al-Reuters):
    ““They have been trained and they can become fully armed. We are ready to dispatch them to every corner of the world to jeopardise Israel and America’s interests. We are only waiting for the Supreme Leader’s green light to take action. If America wants to ignite World War Three … we welcome it,” he said.”
    Oh, that would be a quote from the “Iranian” branch of Hizbullu. I guess the short little man really does want to invoke the mahdi. Well, at least I know which country and idealogy I will support.

  19. Editor’s note: commentors who address me as “KHate”
    Oh then we’ll have to revive that musical revue “Kiss me Kate.”
    Or as Shakespeare would have it: “If musick be the food of love then play on.”
    Speaking of Shakespeare perhaps you can meet my “Merchant in Venice” for a short chat:
    Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs
    dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with
    the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
    to the same diseases, heal’d by the same means
    warm’d and cool’d by the same winter and summer
    as a Christian [Muslim] is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
    If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us,
    do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
    Act III, scene I
    For those who have the leisure to ponder these and other mysteries, when not dodging Katyusha rockets.

  20. irwin daisy – it’s possible that you are locating islamic fascism within the religion because you know absolutely nothing about tribalism.
    Tribalism doesn’t mean ‘group’; it’s a very specific political, social and economic mode of organization that is suitable for a non-industrial population with a population size up to a few hundred thousand. It has been analyzed extensively in anthropological literature, and theoretically, the best analysis I’ve seen is in Karl Popper’s ‘The Open Society and Its Enemies’.
    Islam is, itself, a tribal ‘religion’. In my view, it is more of a sociopolitical mode than it is a religion, for it has little to say about the metaphysical and a great deal to say about the ‘correct’ mode of life.
    The mode of life in this ‘unevolved and unreformed Islam’ is tribal. That means hereditary authority, with most of the population having no say in economic and political behaviour. It also means No Change.
    And that was fine for the period – when the economy was a peasant agriculture. If you, however, define these sociopolitical rules as a religion, then you remove the rules from change. The way of life becomes immune to question, debate and modernization. That is what has led to fascism.
    Christianity reformed – however, it was never a tribal religion. Judaism is a tribal religion (based around hereditary kinship) but it is more of a religion than a sociopolitical mode. And Judaism reformed, enabling its members to operate within an industrial economy and its concomitant civic mode of governance.
    Islam – as that sociopolitical ‘religion’, never reformed. And the ME remained in a peasant agriculture well up to the WWII. It was also colonized, which meant again, that the people had no power. Oil didn’t modernize these states, it simply enabled the dominant tribe to retain power.
    It has moved into Islamic fascism over the past two decades because of the crisis over the need for reform. Why is there a need to reform Islam? Because its social, political and economic infrastructure is operative only within a tribal system. That leaves out the majority of the population. Fine for a small population, but the ME world, over the past two decades, has exploded in population size. Do you know the growth rate in the ME? It’s exponential.
    Far beyond the capacity of a tribal system to govern..because..it excludes the majority of the population from having any role in the political and economic life of the country.
    The ME ‘tried’ (not intentional) to get rid of this excess population by massive immigration into Europe – just as during a similar crisis period in Europe when Christianity reformed, immigration was an attempt to remove the excess population. It didn’t work for Europe and it hasn’t worked for the ME.
    Fascism is their current attempt to reject the requirement for reform of their sociopolitical infrastructure. It is an emotional reaction, focusing on utopianism (just like socialism and communism). Except fascism locates the utopia In the Past. The Past Was Pure. So, fascism asserts that ‘at one time we were pure’, so, let’s get back to that point. It is an attempt to reject the requirement for change, for modernization. It is an attempt to retain the tribal mode of governance, which keeps the majority out of power and one tribe in power.
    It can’t work – because of the size of the ME population. That size requires a civic mode of governance (democracy) and an industrial economy. The ME states are fighting hard to prevent democracy, for that means the Old Guard tribes lose power.
    Islam, as a religion, has to reform, to enable an industrial mode of life and a civic political mode. The other two religions reformed; Islam hasn’t and is instead, attempting to assert an Essentialist Purity of Origin. Very utopian, very fictional – and useless.
    So, I suggest that you read Karl Popper. It might enable you to understand the tribal infrastructure.

  21. Zolf uses “External Affairs” here. Why?
    CBC News ^ | July 18, 2006 | Larry Zolf
    Prime Minister Harper’s role in the recent Mideast crisis is interesting, and one that his own External Affairs Department may not be quite comfortable with. …-
    Full article at free republic

  22. ET,
    As usual, a good argument, much of which I’d have to agree with. However, having said that, I believe in a spiritual and religious supremacy aspect to this mess, that you as an athiest would probably not agree with.
    Also,
    “The ME states are fighting hard to prevent democracy for that means the Old Guard tribes lose power.”
    And perhaps the Islamofascists gain, given the fact that Hamas was democratically elected. Can hardly wait to see who Iraq elects after the US pulls out.

  23. In reply to Irwin daisy – No, my rejection of a religious argument to the current situation is not because I’m an atheist; I don’t think that’s relevant.
    It’s that I think that a religion is intimately connected with a particular economic, political and social infrastructure. When those latter three change – and they are the primary infrastructure of a society –then, the religion must also change. Christianity reformed when the economy moved from a peasant agriculture (the feudal manor) to a market agriculture.
    The Islamic religion hasn’t modernized; it’s suitable only for a small population, peasant agriculture. Now, it has been sabotaged by a fascist version of Islam, focused on Original Purity which is adamantly against change – and very useful for those tribal dictatorships in the ME. The moderate Muslims have to speak up; they have to ‘take charge’ of their religion.
    As for Hamas, it was democratically elected, and I think it was because Hamas had, in large part, taken over the tasks in supplying social services that Arafat’s corrupt Fatah party wasn’t supplying.
    It was then up to Hamas to change from a strictly terrorist group to a political group. It didn’t do this – and frankly, I don’t think that it was given much of a chance by the West which continued to reject it. Or – by Iran, which moved in swiftly to control it and use it as a terrorist group – to promote Iran’s agenda in the ME. Not the Palestinian agenda.
    As I’ve said, I don’t think that most of the ME states give a damn about the Palestinians, viewing them as ‘illiterate peasants’. But, they are very useful to use as a front, when you are trying to retain your own state as a tribal dictatorship.
    I don’t think that tribalism can survive; which means, that I don’t think that islamic fascism can survive. I’m viewing this almost biologically. A tribal infrastructure won’t work within massive populations; there’s too much ‘matter’ to organize within a kin-based hereditary authority. You require a different organization for a large organism than for a small organism (a human being versus a paramecium).
    Continuing with this view of societies as ‘biological forms of matter’, massive populations require industrialism to sustain those populations. You can’t do what Zimbabwe did, where its demented ruler broke up all the large industrial agricultural farms, because they were farmed by whites, and ‘gave’ all the land back, but in small holdings, to farm as local peasant agriculture. Result? Starvation.
    I’m therefore saying that Islamic fascism won’t work, because it is a regressive utopianism, based on a fictional Purity of Origin. Fictions don’t work in reality. Only facts are of any use. And a population in the millions requires innovation, constant change, technological progress, rapid responses to new env’tl issues (new diseases etc). Islamic fascism doesn’t provide change, innovation, free thought, dissent, debate, questions. So, factually, it’s useless for such a population.
    A population in the millions isn’t a simple Old Country Farm. It’s a Complex Adaptive Network – and whatever goes on, happens very quickly. And requires rapid responses. Islam doesn’t enable that. Unless it reforms. Islamic fascism is trying to prevent this reform. It can’t succeed. Only because there are too many people in the world.
    I’m not saying it will fail without a violent fight from the West. But, organically speaking, our species cannot, at 6-9 billion, operate within an ideology like Islam.

  24. ET,
    As I said, I agree with much of your argument. However, I think you missed the gist of what I said. For example:
    “I’m viewing this biologically”
    and,
    “Continuing with this view of societies as ‘biological forms of matter…”
    That’s why I suggested that atheism may be affecting your ability to consider that other things may be at work here as well.
    Faith can’t be observed under a microscope.
    And I said before, I believe there’s a spiritual or religious supremacy aspect to this mess as well

  25. I disagree, Irwin Daisy. Of course faith can be ‘observed under a microscope’, i.e., rationally. Religions are, after all, human constructions. They are not genetic.
    You are, I think..and I may be wrong..saying that the Islamic religious doctrines assert its supremacy as universal, and that these doctrines are the Force behind Islamic fascism and etc. I disagree; I think you are ignoring context.
    Islam as a religion emerged, I suggest, not so much as a force against Judaism, but against Christianity. Judaism is not an expansionist, missionizing religion. It’s tribal, it’s kin-based. The Christian religion is not tribal; it isn’t based on membership in a clan, tribe, family. It’s ‘accepted by the individual’.
    That’s quite a phenomenal change in an era which was, due to the Roman market expansion, moving into an economy based around extensive trade and therefore, requiring a multi-citizen solidarity. The Christian religion, in its early form, was quite suited to this expansion.
    I think it was a huge setback for the Christian religion when it ‘chose’ the Athanasian analysis of the trinity rather than the Arian – but – that’s too long an argument for here. Suffice..that it took 1,000 years to get out of that mentality.
    The Islamic religion, as I’ve said, is strictly tribal, focused around small pastoral and local village economies, kin-based, no change. It’s an economy completely in opposition to the expansionist Christian economy. But, it sought to hold onto, and expand its economic holdings, as the Christian economy moved in. Those two- were pitted against each other. That is, I think the Islamic religion, which I keep saying is more about social, political and econmic behaviour than metaphysical, is a reaction to the dev’t of Christianity and also, an expansionist market style and non-tribal, economy.
    My point is that a religion has context. It doesn’t float in the air. It emerges, historically, in a specific economic, social and political context. It operates in that context. Religion is a human construct. It is an emotional rather than logical and rational system.
    Islam retreated about 1,000 years ago. Why? Because it remained tribal; it didn’t mature; it enables only a peasant agriculture. It doesn’t enable science, innovation, technological change. There hasn’t been a scientific innovation, ever, from the Arab world. As the world population increased, in the West, because of the richness of the ecology of Europe, Christianity matured and enabled an ‘individualist’, free-thinking innovative population. Islam retreated.
    Now, it is in crisis, because industrialism has moved in, via oil. BUT, those states haven’t moved out of a tribal political mode and into a civic mode. Their populations have moved from rural to urban; they’ve increased exponentially in the last two decades. And – the majority have no power politically or economically. They are ‘exploding at the seams’ so to speak. Fascism is a desperate attempt to retain tribalism. To force this massive population to accept Old Islam rather than reform it.

  26. The “downed Israeli plane” was an Iranian missile exploding at launch.
    A LONG-RANGE Iranian missile, not a rocket, explodes at launch. …-
    Iranian missile explodes from truck
    The Australian ^ | July 19, 2006 | Martin Chulov
    Iranian missile explodes from truck Martin Chulov, Beirut19jul06
    A LONG-RANGE Iranian-made missile capable of reaching Israel’s leading city, Tel Aviv, launched skyward from a bombed truck convoy east of Beirut before crashing to earth, Lebanese military officials have confirmed. After initially suspecting the spiralling fireball was a downed Israeli warplane, officials now believe it was evidence of the most serious threat to Israel’s main cities yet to emerge in the week-long conflict. “No Israeli aircraft has been hit over Beirut. All of the air force planes and helicopters have been accounted for,” an army spokesman said. The Zilzal missile…
    rest at free republic

  27. Willy Graham, MP, Liberal, Toronto Centre is the interim leader of the Socialist Power Corp. Liberal Party of Toronto. Soft power Willy is melting down, down, down,…
    Is Graham and his party anti-Israel? Anti-Jewish? Against freedom and democracy?
    Prime Minister Harper stands with Israel.
    Stand with Israel. …-
    Graham slams Harper over Lebanon
    VANCOUVER (CP) – Interim Liberal Leader Bill Graham says the Conservative government’s response to the deepening conflict in Lebanon threatens Canada’s credibility as an arbitrator in world crises. via c news

  28. Thanks maz2. It isn’t that Graham’s credibility is melting; it’s been doing that since the election when he was flung into the position of Leader, when Martin fled.
    The hilarious statement, is by Graham, claiming that Canada has ‘credibility’ as a world arbitrator! Canada’s credibility as such melted down, down, under the Liberals. It’s only now that we have a leader with principles and resolve, that we are slowly returning to the world of responsibility.

  29. JJM: furthermore, 39-45 show the ghastly folly of catering to and appeasing and misjudging those whose aim is extermination of jews and dominance of the world/europe/ME/pick a spot.
    (I kinda wish I was in on the resounding defeat of naziism but at the same time am so, so grateful to our now senior vets that I never had to, they having done such a good job of it)

  30. After Israeli tanks re-take South Lebanon the entire area should be de-populated, ploughed flat and heavily mined.

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