For those naïve Democrats who are clamoring for Israel to immediately cease hostilities let’s review the bidding of one of Israel’s “neighbors” to the north – Hezbollah or “The Party of God.” Hezbollah was established by Lebanese clerics primarily to fight the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and adopted the model set out by Ayatollah Khomeini after the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Since then, a symbiotic (by choice) relationship has developed between Iran and Hezbollah.
As my good friend, mentor, and Middle East expert Dr. Lani Kass points out Hezbollah has a LOT of American blood on its hands. They bombed both the US Embassy and U.S. Marine Corps Barracks in Beirut in Oct 1983 (241 KIA), kidnapped and tortured to death US citizens – military, CIA and civilians – USMC COL Rich Higgins and CIA Beirut Station Chief William Buckley are the most prominent among them.
Hezbollah, together with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) supplied the shaped IED charges that killed and maimed thousands of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. While on active duty I would see their broken bodies at Bethesda Naval Hospital meanwhile we did little to stop them. The IRGC also trained and equipped ISIS and helped Assad gas his civilians in Syria. We should be happy Israel has the not only the expertise but more importantly the cajónes to make it so.
Hezbollah is a designated terrorist one of the most powerful and organized on the planet. It is very active in Central and Latin America – especially the tri-border area – engaged with the cartels and making billions in drugs, weapons and people trafficking. This criminal/terrorist nexus has been completely ignored and is a threat in our hemisphere. We’ve known this and in typical fashion we have done little about it for decades hoping it would go away.
Hezbollah has effectively taken over a sovereign country – Lebanon – whose military the United States has trained and supplied for decades in theory as counterweight to Hezbollah/Iran. It is important to realize that Israel’s fight is not with the sovereign state of Lebanon.
Hezbollah isn’t an indigenous organization. It’s an Iranian transplant – Shia, into a majority Christian and Sunni country – which has destroyed what used to be the Switzerland of the Middle East. The majority Christian population has been uprooted, expelled and forced to emigrate.
It’s critical to differentiate this war from Gaza/Hamas. Lebanon is a sovereign country and a member of the UN, taken over by an Iranian proxy. Iran wants another theocratic Islamic republic in Lebanon, which would give it access to the Mediterranean and complete the Shia Crescent which threatens Israel, Jordan, Egypt Saudi Arabia, the UAE—and, of course, Lebanon. It’s in the US interest not to allow that to happen.
So, the next time you hear that Israel is conducting “human rights violations” or using “excessive force” against Hezbollah review the bidding with them. Consider that our staunchest ally in the Middle East is its fight for their very survival but more importantly it’s our fight as well not just Israel’s.
Many Democrats unfortunately are both ill equipped and uninformed to deal with the reality of what is actually taking place in a world where only the strong survive.
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1) What about the drug war in the USA? Why does the state department not give us a daily briefing on the progress of the drug war in the USA? Have members of US special forces, the CIA, Navy seal teams, been sent into Mexico to take out those flooding this country with pot, cocaine, fentanyl? Why are we not bombing drug cartels in Mexico? Why is seal team 6 not taking out the drug suppliers? What is being done to stop China, and any other county, from using the USPS from shipping illegal drugs, or the ingredients to manufacture them, into this country?
2) Israel/Jews have the money and they can take care of their own problems. If of course they were keeping the Covenants they made with God, they would be taken care of by God, not the evil, lying, godless, deviant, corruption based, USA. They made a deal with God thousands of years ago. Jews still belong to God, jthat was part of the deal they agreed too, correct?
3) You, I, the people in this country, most people actually know very little about what is actually going on in this country. Why? Because of the massive government censorship of the news so the elected professional liars can stay in power.
4) Why is the author writing about Israel and ignoring the problems in the USA?
5) I would ask the author this. In his entire government/military career, how many wars did the USA win? Korea? Vietnam? Middle-East?
Afghanistan? Ukraine?
6) If the Hezbollah leader who was just assassinated by Israel really was part of the US marine barracks killing 4 decades ago, why did the USA not kill him decades ago? Or, is this just another USA lie?
7) Keep in mind that the marine barracks killing 4 decades ago was only made possible because of gross incompetence in military leadership. Just as was the sacrifice (not killing) of the 13 US troops during the recent Afghanistan withdrawal was only possible because of DEI based gross negligence and incompetence in the Pentagon.
8) Also, keep in mind that the October 7 Hamas incursion into Israel lies directly, solely, and squarely, on the shoulders of the godless Bejamin Netanyahu. and no one else.
9) The censorship of the Georgia fire by the news media is a classic example of how the game is being played in the crooked, government controlled media.
10) If one really wants the truth about Ukraine, then just see the speech that Republican Senator Tommy Tubervulle made recently.
Yes Sir ! “It may very well be that the Israelis save us while saving themselves. My God Almighty grant that both our nations survive.”
Many Democrats unfortunately are both ill equipped and uninformed to deal with the reality of what is actually taking place in a world where only the strong survive.”
I respectfully disagree. The democrat/communist traitors know EXACTLY what their proxies are doing. It’s a part of the long range strategy they adopted around 1920, give or take, to destroy America from within and without. It has now come into full fruition with the coup that began in 2020 and continued this very year with Biden’s ouster in favor of a hard core communist in the person of Harris. It may very well be that the Israelis save us while saving themselves. My God Almighty grant that both our nations survive.