August 04, 2006

This Sounds Like Ahmadinejad is Admitting the Defeat of Hezbollah

From the NY Sun:

The Iranians this week began a double game in Lebanon best summed up by President Ahmadinejad's message to Muslim nations yesterday in Malaysia: "Although the main solution is for the elimination of the Zionist regime, at this stage an immediate cease-fire must be implemented."

This approach - of seeking both Israel's destruction and a temporary ceasefire - is evident in signals from Iran's Foreign Ministry to European countries.

Ahmadinejad is saying he wants to destroy Israel, but he believes he needs a cease-fire to prevent further immediate losses by Hezbollah, so they can come back and destroy Israel later.

Now is not the time for a cease-fire.

Now is the time to destroy Hezbollah.

Iraqi-American Fawaz Saraf, on Israel’s War with Hezbollah: “Hizbollah’s defeat”

Iraqi-American Fawaz Saraf emails:

Hizbollah's defeat

During the first gulf war many Iraqis, distraught by the sight of destruction of their country by American and British bombs, often comforted themselves by the thought that at end of all this destruction, there will be no Saddam. Over the past few days, I have spoken to many Lebanese Americans who seem to echo these same sentiments, except of course they hoping that after all this destruction to their beautiful country, Hizbollah would be disarmed. At the end of the first gulf war Iraqis were horrified to find that after all this destruction, after all this chemotherapy, after all this radiation, their cancer was left in place, left to torment them for many more years. The tragedy for Lebanon would be if after all this destruction, an armed and dangerous Hizbollah is allowed to remain in place. The only acceptable outcome for this current conflict should be a total and absolute defeat of Hizballah. Anything less would leave a deadly organization and with an equally deadly and medieval philosophy (that of Islamic fundamentalism) in place to fight another day (and perhaps with deadlier weapons).

Angry at Israel's actions in Lebanon, a European political leader declared that peace cannot be made with dead children. Aaagh, the condescending nonsense we must tolerate from our European friends (Those same European friends who take the high moral ground of vacationing in Cuba because it is cheap, thanks to Castro's abuse of his population, and where recently frustrated Cubans threw rocks at a hospital being constructed by the Cuban government and dedicated for European patients only). Does this delusional European really think that if Israel declares a ceasefire now, the children of the Middle East will live happily ever after?

I always wonder at how many tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi lives could have been saved over the past three years had the coalition forces been more forceful in dealing with the Iraqi insurgency, including Moqtada Sadr's Mahdi army. Oh, I am sure we would have been lectured by Europeans, but perhaps Iraq would have been a safer place today.