A Comment About

Smoldering Tinder in Lebanon

December 11, 2007 - 12:30 am - by Bridget Johnson
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2007-12-11 11:13:19

I’m sorry, this region needs invasion, conquest, and a novel mix of enlightened repression and education if it is ever to be able to reliably develop some sort of modern, productive relationship to itself. What is all this? Maybe we should put some UN observers on the border with Syria, instead of just in the South? Maybe we should develop new technologies to track shipment and personnel movements whose logistical trail begins in Iran? And the beneficiary of this violative rearmament is a quasi-sovereign, semi-legal Islamist militia bent maniacally on the destruction of Israel and the co-option of Lebanon?

What the f*ck is all this dithering and politicking about if not the cowardice of powers-that-be and this odd fatalism ith respect to the characteristic misbehavior of the nearer Asiatics?

I don’t get it. These are pissant powers in pursuit of manifest evils – or at least deleterious incompetencies – that ironically require Western largesse to even exist at all.

Goddamnit let’s end this farce for once and all and get down to a regional war. Anything else favors the enemy and saps and divides us. What a ludicrous situation.