Lebanon has paid a terrible short term price for Israel's disproportionate military response in terms of lives and property. The longer the conflict continues unchecked the more disastrous the long term effects will be for Lebanon and the region both in terms of economic loss and political stability.
The Western leaders' deliberate foot dragging in pursuing a ceasefire, as dictated by the the United States, will further damage already tense relations between the West and the Muslim world as outlined in Michael Scheuer's article: Doing Bin Laden's Work for Him. Michael Scheuer is a former CIA operative who was in charge of operations against Al Qaida between 1996-1999.
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Abu Karem
I quote Michael Sheuer:
"Led by Washington's absurd, 30-year obsession with the minimal Shia threat to America, and blind to the hatred generated among Muslims by their foreign policies, the G-8 have mightily strengthened the enmity, durability, and resolve of the Sunni extremist movement that bin Laden leads and personifies."
It is interesting that Sheuer thinks that the Shia pose a minimal threat to America. You might like to read this article, which I came across by accident today, by a Turkish writer who takes a different view on the Shia threat
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/83472-Palestinians-0
Great job with you latest posts.
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