retrogrouch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On Sat, 17 May 2008 03:47:56 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax
> <dirk.bruere@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Joe wrote:
>>> BikeFan wrote:
>>>> Bush went cap in hand to his masters in Israel and then tried
>>>> to strongarm the Saudis to pump more oil. Oddly, they refused.
>>>> http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/16/bush.saudi.arabia/index.html
>>>> I guess he's more scared of what the Federal Reserve can do to the US
>>>> than Saudi.
>>>>
>>> wrong again, but I'm sure u r used to that. saudi's increase oil
>>> 300,000 barrels a day thanks to the greatest president in history.
>> And Iran is doing a longterm oil deal with the Chinese, in Euros.
>> I bet someone won't like that...
>
>
> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/363292_friedman16.html
>
> Seattle Post-Intelligencer
> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/363292_friedman16.html
>
> We'll lose a Cold War with Iran
>
> Last updated May 15, 2008 4:41 p.m. PT
>
> By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
> SYNDICATED COLUMNIST
>
> The next American president will inherit many foreign policy
> challenges, but surely one of the biggest will be the Cold War. Yes,
> the next president is going to be a Cold War president -- but this
> Cold War is with Iran.
>
> That is the real umbrella story in the Middle East today -- the
> struggle for influence across the region, with the U.S. and its Sunni
> Arab allies (and Israel) versus Iran, Syria and their non-state
> allies, Hamas and Hezbollah. As the May 11 editorial in the Iranian
> daily Kayhan put it, "In the power struggle in the Middle East, there
> are only two sides: Iran and the U.S."
>
> For now, Team America is losing on just about every front. How come?
> The short answer is that Iran is smart and ruthless, America is dumb
> and weak, and the Sunni Arab world is feckless and divided. Any other
> questions?
>
> The outrage of the week is the Iranian-Syrian-Hezbollah attempt to
> take over Lebanon. Hezbollah thugs pushed into Sunni neighborhoods in
> West Beirut, focusing particular attention on cru****ng progressive
> news outlets like Future TV, so Hezbollah's propaganda machine could
> dominate the airwaves. The ****ite militia Hezbollah emerged supposedly
> to protect Lebanon from Israel. Having done that, it has now turned
> around and sold Lebanon to Syria and Iran.
Sorry, but Judith Miller finished the NYT and any utterances
from Jewish journalists for me. I will automatically
assume that they are filled with some truth, half-truth, outright
lies and Israeli propaganda and disinformation.
Israel is the prime beneficiary of any instability on her borders
and within her neighbouring states. So Hezbollah must be her secret
friend. Talk about false-flag operations.
Many of these operations have echoes of the old South African
Apartheid regimes destabilize the neighbours programs. On the surface
they looked like legitimate attempts by locals to change the
game, but when you looked into the funding it was all coming from
South Africa and the west. Which makes me wonder who Israel
might be covertly supplying arms and funds to out there to keep the
regional chaos going. HEZBOLLAH and FATAH??
--
BikeFan
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