As part of the lies and fabrications by Kerry and Hagel (Gen. Dempsey looked as eager and enthusiastic in the speactacle as I was when I went to have my wisdom teeth extracted), one of them said that Hizbullah is desperate to attack US targets. This is such a lie. The party did say that it is not after US interests and has not attacked US interests since the mid-1980s, as I remember. Certainly the party under Nasrallah (but not under the terrorist Subhi Tufayli--the first secretary-general of the party--who is now bankrolled by the Saudi intelligence service) avoided any violent confrontation with the US. In fact, during the July war of 2006, the party used force against angry demonstrators (leftists and Arab nationalists and Syrian nationalists and others) who were on their way to attack the US embassy outside of Beirut in response to US embrace of Israeli aggression. The US government knows full well that it is the party that protects the US embassy and not the Marines and not the Lebanese state. What will happen in the case of US attack on Syria? No one knows. No one really knows. What is scary about the Obama calculations that it mirrors the Bush calculations in discounting the potential of things spiraling out of control in the wake of US attack.
PS Minutes after posting this, I saw this call for a sit-in in front of the US embassy in Beirut.
PS Minutes after posting this, I saw this call for a sit-in in front of the US embassy in Beirut.
