Necons are welcoming WWIII
Rice has given Israel at least another week to bomb the s--- out of Lebanon"

Lebanon Daily News | July 29 2006

This administration refuses to learn from its mistakes. It wants more war. But war won’t work any better in Lebanon than it is working in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Presdient George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice oppose any effort seeking an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon and Gaza. The administration is sticking with military action and imposed regime change rather than seeking a negotiated cease-fire to end the destruction of Lebanese society.

Rice, at her sanctimonious best, condemns all previous shuttle diplomacy and says she will not attempt to quell the violence “if all it does is return Lebanon and Israel to the status quo ante,” by which she means an armed Hezbollah firing rockets into Israel.

All, including Lebanon, Israel and the United States, want Hezbollah disarmed as called for in U.N. Resolution 1559. No matter how long Rice encourages Israel to pound Lebanon, it is unlikely that Israeli jets and tanks will achieve that goal.

Our secretary of state is operating on the assumption that the status quo ante was somehow perpetuated by the weakness of the previous shuttle diplomacy, and this administration is finally going to get tough and get it right.

Rice is standing up for the neo-con idea, warm to her and Bush’s heart, that America can and should build democracy in the Arab and Islamic worlds at the muzzle of gun. To implement the plan, Rice has given Israel at least another week to bomb the s--- out of Lebanon (if you’ll pardon the presidential language).

That status quo ante did include a growing Hezbollah strength and rockets into Israel, but it was not created by the weakness of previous U.S. efforts. The neglect, weakness and distraction of the Bush administration are what has left the world littered with war and rumors of war.

While concentrating on regime change in Iraq, we forgot about this smoldering Israeli-Palestine conflict. And we forgot about anti-American revolutions in Latin America, genocide in Darfur, a crumbling democracy in Russia, China’s growing economic influence around the world and, of course, the existing warheads in North Korea. The Israel-Palestinian conflict is just the first to bring violence and mayhem. The others will not be far behind.

If the Bush administration had attended to that earlier process, it could have used the 2004 withdrawal of the Syrian military from the area under U.N. Resolution 1559 as the chance to stay involved. It could have disarmed Hezbollah then and maybe even inserted a robust U.N., NATO or EU fighting force, as compared to the 2,000-man peacekeeping force the U.N. has there now. Instead, its neglect allowed Hezbollah to fill the vacuum and stir up the violence that Rice now finds so useful that it should be allowed to linger.

The Bush administration apparently wants Israel to have the opportunity to destroy the military wing of Hezbollah and Hamas. That’s all fine except that if these Islamist forces are indeed being supplied from Iran and Syria, then any destruction of them is likely to be temporary at best. Hezbollah and Hamas will go to ground and then later turn Lebanon and Gaza into small-time Baghdads.

Hezbollah is the poster child for the horror of Bush’s failed foreign policy. The conscious and purposeful neglect of everything but Saddam Hussein cultured these infections that now require drastic and painful surgery.

U.S. foreign-policy neglect ignited these fires all over the world and the Bush-Rice team has neither the desire nor the ability to contain them. America is, in effect, stepping aside here and everywhere to let the world burn. Madeline Albright called America “the indispensable country.” Under Rice’s leadership we will soon become the irrelevant country.

Nothing is normal anymore. The people who brought us the invasion of Iraq as the first act in The New American Century are now saying this latest Israeli war is an opportunity to bomb Iran and strike at Syria. The neo-cons who led the Bush administration into Iraq and overthrew Saddam Hussein are now welcoming this as the beginning of World War III.

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