Back                                                Those Rose colored glasses again                                8-20-06

I just heard George Bush say that Israel won the recent war against Hezbollah and Hamas. There go those rose colored glasses again. Sure I'll agree they won the war itself but let's look at the larger picture.

First Israel had no choice they had to attack but to say they won is a very optimistic statement, in fact it's ludicrous. They might have, No they did, destroy more of the infrastructure of Hezbollah and killed or captured many more of their fighters then they lost but, and it's the but that counts, they lost the propaganda war.

I watched, both Sunnis and Christians in Lebanon cheering Hezbollah on. Waving Hezbollah flags while burning Israeli flags. I have to wonder how many more terrorists were created throughout the Arab world and even in Arab communities throughout the entire world.

Hezbollah was a minority in Lebanon before the war and though they are still a minority they have gained favor with many people who before the war thought of them as terrorists.

The first thing they did after the truce went into effect was to go in to the damaged areas and pass out money  and promise to help rebuild homes and infrastructure. They know public relations and are hard at recruiting for their cause. Moslems around the world have fallen into their propaganda trap and many will follow their lead.

So when George W. Bush says they lost he has to be fooling himself. Not only did Israel lose (In the long run.) but we, by association did also.

It's now a race to see who can help rebuild Lebanon first. The free world or Hezbollah. It's a race we can't afford to loose.

Al

9/01/06: CNN.  George Bush is at it again, what will it take for him to see the reality that is Iraq. In a speech, on the war in Iraq, he made statement that only a small number of Iraqis are engaged in sectarian violence, while the large majority want peace and that Iraq is not slipping into civil war. He keeps wanting to blame the violence on terrorists and refuses to see that the most of the violence in Iraq is between the Iraqis themselves. Like I've said before, if a hundred or more deaths a day isn't being on the verge of civil war I have no idea what is.

He keeps painting rosy pictures and all I see is skunk cabbage. He's is right on one thing: We can't leave the mess he started till we at least have some semblance of stability, but he's wrong when he says we have to "Stay the course". We have to have a different plan of operation. I only hope we still have time to avoid the looming iceberg.