CHEAP ARSENAL
Cheap Arsenal characterizes Hezbollah's choice of weaponry, as much as the homemade mortar misiles made from home style gas torch propane tanks because of the cost factor in underground militant resistance.
Rather than pearl their armed force with visibile formations and formal arms allotments of Israel's nature, Hezbollah's guerillas like all counterparts, live off the land, the accidental recovery, and the occasional arms donation.
Accuracy for Hezbollah is a prayer like that of the maker and hurler of a Molotov cocktail. It was meant for an enemy combatant or combatant capacity - but is of lesser aiming and control. Hence Hezbollah would in a Court of Law win a partial mitigating defense vis a vis Israel's hasty overkill trigger with her accurate expensive prodigious arsenal.
A two hundred pound Israeli bomb will kill more than a half accurate Hezbollah rocket any day of the week -- yet the hysteria and foul falls Lebanon's way.
Not an apology for Hezbollah's aggravation and lesser attack -- but absolutely yes, an advocacy for an absolute control and restraint in reaction by the more modern, better equiped Israeli arsenal. They adopted it -- it under international law, as in a civil police/constabulary using modern weaponry, requires professional responsibilities.
Last, we cannot as people simply dismss this as war - any way any cost -- that is not modern nor lawful.
Engage and empower Lebanon to do her national job internally, and remove the bellicosity and root causes of war or martial acts as policy choices and peace follows.
Ceasefire now -- table the captives issue for collateral negotiation .. and do what responsible modernism in government promises and can do -- save lives.
Yesterdays blog post partly mis-stated Mr. Blairs remarks about Hezbollah's rockets -- he said 1600 not 1400 rockets in a Question Time response discussing the issue. However, the true quibblefrom this chair, is the initiation and calculated repnse of adversaries in events which can bring war .. its excessive escalation -- and Britain did join France Italy and Russia of the G-8 in characterizing Israel's response as disproportionate. The latter posture was underreported in the American press -- learned yesterday, and not the policy of France alone.
Lastly as to Syrian-Irani involvement .. only evidence of Syrian or Iranian field direction satisfies .. and no evidence but empathy for Lebanon and Hezbollah is there other than discared and past dispatched weapons. Make the ceasefire .. start a peace and enjoin and invite Syria. Saving lives by stopping war must commence first.
And yes - virtually all Americans and the world community believe President Bush can stop Israeli mlitary actions by a push-button or a phone call. Why not send him a mock one while you're re-teaching constituent assertion for 'mandate' revocation to the Israeli citizen-voters.
More later on the fear of Shi'ite Islam and the Shi'ite fear -- or as also referenced: " Are they really still blaming the Sunni and others for Ali?"
Rather than pearl their armed force with visibile formations and formal arms allotments of Israel's nature, Hezbollah's guerillas like all counterparts, live off the land, the accidental recovery, and the occasional arms donation.
Accuracy for Hezbollah is a prayer like that of the maker and hurler of a Molotov cocktail. It was meant for an enemy combatant or combatant capacity - but is of lesser aiming and control. Hence Hezbollah would in a Court of Law win a partial mitigating defense vis a vis Israel's hasty overkill trigger with her accurate expensive prodigious arsenal.
A two hundred pound Israeli bomb will kill more than a half accurate Hezbollah rocket any day of the week -- yet the hysteria and foul falls Lebanon's way.
Not an apology for Hezbollah's aggravation and lesser attack -- but absolutely yes, an advocacy for an absolute control and restraint in reaction by the more modern, better equiped Israeli arsenal. They adopted it -- it under international law, as in a civil police/constabulary using modern weaponry, requires professional responsibilities.
Last, we cannot as people simply dismss this as war - any way any cost -- that is not modern nor lawful.
Engage and empower Lebanon to do her national job internally, and remove the bellicosity and root causes of war or martial acts as policy choices and peace follows.
Ceasefire now -- table the captives issue for collateral negotiation .. and do what responsible modernism in government promises and can do -- save lives.
Yesterdays blog post partly mis-stated Mr. Blairs remarks about Hezbollah's rockets -- he said 1600 not 1400 rockets in a Question Time response discussing the issue. However, the true quibblefrom this chair, is the initiation and calculated repnse of adversaries in events which can bring war .. its excessive escalation -- and Britain did join France Italy and Russia of the G-8 in characterizing Israel's response as disproportionate. The latter posture was underreported in the American press -- learned yesterday, and not the policy of France alone.
Lastly as to Syrian-Irani involvement .. only evidence of Syrian or Iranian field direction satisfies .. and no evidence but empathy for Lebanon and Hezbollah is there other than discared and past dispatched weapons. Make the ceasefire .. start a peace and enjoin and invite Syria. Saving lives by stopping war must commence first.
And yes - virtually all Americans and the world community believe President Bush can stop Israeli mlitary actions by a push-button or a phone call. Why not send him a mock one while you're re-teaching constituent assertion for 'mandate' revocation to the Israeli citizen-voters.
More later on the fear of Shi'ite Islam and the Shi'ite fear -- or as also referenced: " Are they really still blaming the Sunni and others for Ali?"
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