This war between Israel and Hezbollah invites comparisons to the 1982 Invasion of Lebanon, but the stakes are much higher because world is very different.
The Israeli counter attack is clearly attempting to circumscribe the battle within the boundaries of Lebanon, because if Iran is allowed to supply terrorists with armaments and supplemental troops, it will force the conflict to expand to counter those supplies. The White House today reiterated the fact that Syria is at the decision point where they are either with the United States or Iran.
White House: The problem is, in the end of the day, people have choices to make, and Syria is making bad choices. And one of the things that the President said about the kind of incident that we have been through, is it has a way of clarifying the situation, and what is at stake, and making clear to people that there are choices they need to make. And lots of messages have been and will continue to be Syria -- sent to Syria -- but the problem is they have a choice to make, and so far they made the wrong choice, from our standpoint.What concerns me is that Israel is facing enemies that not only outnumber them, as in the past, but are approaching equality in the sophistication of weaponry. Iran is providing Chinese supplied missile technology far advanced from anything Israel has faced in previous conflicts.
Iran aided Hezbollah ship attack: Elite Iranian troops helped Hezbollah fire a sophisticated radar-guided missile at an Israeli warship, Israeli officials said Saturday, describing an apparent surprise blow by militants who had been using only low-tech weapons.If Israel is overcome and obliterated by Iranian Military Imperialism, then all of Europe is in danger because in the years since 1982, Europe has willingly allowed millions of Muslims into their nations. A damning condemnation of the current European political elite in The Brussels Journal details how leftist multiculturalism has primed the old west for an historical change.
“Let Them Eat Kebab” – The New Marie Antoinettes: The Multicultural ideology is malignant because it fragments society into separate, cultural ghettos, a kind of apartheid. We’re living in an age dominated on one hand by cultural relativism in the West, and on the other hand by aggressive Islamic intolerance, No Truths vs. One Truth. Is this just a coincidence, or is it possible that the vacuum of nihilism and moral indifference is provoking an aggressive counter-reaction? If so, Multiculturalism promotes totalitarianism rather than tolerance.I wonder how Winston Churchill would respond to a British Government report concluding that “Britishness” had “systematic, largely unspoken, racial connotations” and the country should be formally “recognized as a multicultural society” whose history must be “revised, rethought, or jettisoned”?
