09-27-2020, 03:08 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-27-2020, 05:26 AM by Bob Butler 54.)
(09-27-2020, 12:31 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: I always thought that Hezbollah was a nasty bunch of people... I just can't imagine any organization other than national armed forces storing huge amounts of bomb-making materials (those are usually also ordnance) and then under rigid discipline about custody. Sure, I know, I know... Israel is the Little Satan in contrast to the Great Satan, the United States of America.
(an aside: should Donald Trump be re-elected or find some devious way to extend his term, the USA might be the literal Great Satan. But I also see Trump going down to defeat anyway). Three Great Powers under dictatorial rule (Russia, China, and the US) would be material for a Crisis worse than the last one.
...Does Lebanon have the means of outlawing an organization that has done something so egregious as to store high explosives in a populated area?
The problem is the partition under colonial rule into a 'nation' containing several old tribal groups. In attempting to keep the borders unchanged, you have to give each group a piece of the pie, with no loyalty to the nation as a whole. I keep wondering if reverting to France taking over again could be a temporary solution, but to let go you have to let the locals take over again. If the borders have nothing to do with the tribes in a tribal thinking area, the situation would remain problematic.
Xenophobia wise, you have all sorts of tribes not trusting and disliking everybody else. War is a racket wise, the elites and leaders are each trying to grab their own without concern for the people. Idealistic wise? The West and Israel have mucked up any chance of an ideal taking a place other than in accentuating xenophobia.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
