League Of Hot! Democrazies

Getting democracies to hook up, party and promote free choice, free trade and fun and what Uncle Tony calls the "Universal Values of the Human Spirit" seems only natural.

Desirable even. Hotties always hang in leagues.

Do leagues succeed?

Like Arab League? Their recent mutual hang in Basharopolis was like a hypocrit convention. Totally unproductive - even worse it granted a fait accompli to Iran to continue her murderous meddling in Arab affairs by vacationing in an Arab capitol that is openly ripping the living guts out of a sister Arab capitol.

Super subtle signals like sending low level cats to signal the uncoolness of Iranian influ in Arab affairs signaled the wrong signal.


Drawing back a nub in the Basra outright annexation deal thanks to Great Satan and the new Iraqi Army guys, having a league of their own taken to the woodshed so bad they screamed for a cease fire right from the heart of their very own former no go zone of Sadr Caliphate City, Iran recovered to drive to her hegemony by sacking Lebanon.

Thanks to another ineffective conference in Cairo last WE Arab League can openly brag that of all the words and verbs that can be applied to the League - success ain't on the list.

Would a hot! grrls only club for democracies do any better?

In the essential "America Unbound" semi avuncular Ivo Daalder kinda sorta whispers hot flash promises of unbinding all democracies - essentially overwhelmingly marginalizing and regime changing any unfree. illicit, illegit supreme leaders, presidents for life, warlords, resistance leaders in global range of darling dangerous democrazy dames.

This league could have tons of influ in DC - way more than unfree regimes and the UN would be stymied as a no game collection of thug hugging Tyrannies R Us gangsta clan gang that spends way too much time griping about Little Satan or dissing Great Satan for faults - real and imagined.

"When the UN finally does anything of use, it's propelled in large part by US dollars, with the US contributing more than any other country. Those other giants, China and Russia, are not filling the coffers of the UN's moral authority. "

The job description sounds like what could be an upgraded worldwide NATO esque deal (in place of NATO maybe?)

Super fly smart guy Robert Kagan (Oh! He got game!) makes a case for a rocking concert

"So would a concert of democracies supplant the UN? Of course not, any more than the Group of Eight leading industrialised nations or any number of other international organisations supplant it. But the world’s democracies could make common cause to act in humanitarian crises when the UN Security Council cannot reach unanimity.

If people find that prospect unsettling, then they should seek the disbandment if Nato and the European Union and other regional organisations which not only can but, in the case of Kosovo, have taken collective action in crises when the Security Council was deadlocked.

The difference is that the league of democracies would not be limited to
Europeans and Americans but would include the world’s other great democracies,
such as India, Brazil, Japan and Australia, and would have even greater
legitimacy."

Unfree regimes that fiddle about with WMD, threaten to wipe democratic members of the UN off the map would maybe pay billions for UN Sec Council vetos to develop a counter org.

Maybe? Looks like they are already. Russia and China routinely stall, trade and protect Iran, Syria and NoKo now. Would a league of democrazies make it official?

Critics cry out that

"Indeed Russia and China sometimes act as the de facto heads of a league of autocracies – protecting bad governments such as Iran and Zimbabwe at the UN. So it would be a good idea for the world’s democrats to promote their values in a more organised and determined fashion.

The trouble with this idea is that it risks creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
America’s relationships with China and Russia are complicated and ambiguous – with elements of both competition and co-operation. But the formation of a league of democracies would harden antagonisms and might even be seen as the launching of a new cold war."

So what?

"Will the mere fact of democracies working together produce a new cold war? That is unduly alarmist. But ideological competition is already under way. Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, notes that: “For the first time in many years, a real competitive environment has emerged on the market of ideas” between different “value systems and development models”. The good news, he believes, is that “the west is losing its monopoly on the globalisation process”.

True or not, democracies should not be embarrassed about holding up their side of this competition. Neither Beijing nor Moscow would expect them to do anything else."

Events like Darfur, Zimbabwe, Burma and Sudan actually make the best case for a league of democracies that could act out humanitarianly in event of disasters and a clever backdoor method to slip in the R2P clause.

"It is only a matter of time before reports emerge again from somewhere of massacres, mass starvation, rape, and ethnic cleansing. And then the question will arise again in the Security Council, in political capitals, and in the media: What do we do?"

If the league is ready to adopt, birth and raise new baby democracies - then intervene, kill the regime, tend to the stricken and handle it.

If NATO, the UN and the EU cannot make commitments to take an 8 hour panzer ride to Serbia to put Milosevic out of biz or man up and defend tiny baby democracies in dark scary parts of the world in danger of having their tiny baby heads choked plumb off then would Japan, Australia, France, Great Britain, Great Satan, SoKo and Taiwan have the guts to take the challenge?

The R2P clause and the Atrocity Prevention philosophy should be bound up in the Democratic Imperatives.

"No one ever knows when the struggle will end. When they begin to crumble authoritarian regimes can collapse overnight. The fight needs uncompromising courage; but when it is over different qualities are needed: reason, patience, calm, a readiness to reconcile and forgive. Qualities that I find easy to associate with the patient suffering of Burmese men and women"

The fact is quick action could have been taken by a league of democrazies with their 30 years in the future militaries and humanitarian high tech to strike fast, kill or incapcitate xenophobic cruel despotries, rescue the dying and aid the perishing before the Internat'l Handwringers Coalition could respond.

Especially for humanitarian reasons - intervention in Burma for example - could have been done as media and communications were nearly out - any cries or propaganda from the regime's survivors could have been shut off early and easily. Besides - who really cares what slave trading illegit leaders or their fanboys say?

And that's the real case for the league of hot! democrazies - to tackle events as opportunities in the New Millennium.

Aussie Homage'

Great Satan's crazy cool cuzzes from down under yonder pretty much blew through dissing smokescreens and pointed out yet another smoking raison d' etre' for the nom de guerre of Great Satan. It's very sweet to know that in these crunk and disorderly times - the spiritual sons of Gallipoli and El Alamein are with us all the way.

The US stands ready, willing and able to offer assistance. It is often the
first country to send in millions of dollars, navy strike groups loaded with
food and medical supplies, and transport planes, helicopters and floating
hospitals to help those devastated by natural disaster.

Then, just as swift and with equal predictability, those wedded to the
Great Satan view of the US begin to carp, drawing on a potent mixture of
cynicism and conspiracy theories to criticise the last remaining superpower.

When the US keeps doing so much of the heavy lifting to alleviate suffering,
you'd figure that the anti-Americans might eventually revise their view of the
US.

But they never do. And coming under constant attack even when helping
others, you'd figure that Americans would eventually draw the curtains on
world crises. But they haven't. At least not yet.

So it was last week. The US stood ready to help the cyclone-ravaged Burmese
people. It did not matter that Burma's ruling junta was no friend of the
Americans. With more than 100,000 people feared dead and many more hundreds of thousands left destitute, US Air Force cargo planes loaded with supplies and
personnel started arriving in nearby Thailand to begin humanitarian operations
in Burma

A US Navy strike group in the Gulf of Thailand sent helicopters ashore,
ready to arrive in Burma within hours. Alas, Burma's military leaders left their
people to die for 10 days before finally accepting help from the evil empire.
Even if the Yanks are allowed to boost their assistance to Burma, they can
expect a groundswell of criticism.

Back in 2004, the Americans - along with the Australians - arrived within hours
to help the hundreds of thousands of people left devastated by the Boxing Day
tsunami in Asia. A US carrier group steamed towards Indonesia's Aceh province. A
second US Marine Corps strike force made its way to Sri Lanka with water, food
and medical supplies.

The Pentagon spent millions of dollars sending C-130 transport planes from Dubai
to Indonesia with tents, blankets, food and water. A navy chief in charge of
co-ordination efforts said the US would deliver "as much help as soon as we can,
as long as we're needed".

The resentment that comes from needing the military and economic might of the US
translated into the most absurd criticism. Jan Egeland, the former UN boss of
humanitarian affairs, cavilled about the stinginess of certain Western nations.
His eye was on the US. Former British minister Claire Short was equally miffed,
describing the initiative by the US and other countries as "yet another attempt
to undermine the UN", which was, according to her, the "only body that has the
moral authority" to help.

I love moral authority as much as the next guy, but the UN's moral authority is
a mighty hard sell given that the UN club includes the most odious regimes in
the world, such as Burma. And notice how the UN's moral authority did not
quickly translate into helicopters laden with food and water?

When the UN finally does anything of use, it's propelled in large part by US
dollars, with the US contributing more than any other country. Those other
giants, China and Russia, are not filling the coffers of the UN's moral
authority.

Then came the even more toxic comparisons between Iraq and US humanitarian
assistance in Asia. In the anti-American mind, opposition to one US policy means
blasting everything the Americans do. Of course, Egypt's Al Akhbar newspaper
said the US was helping tsunami victims to "consolidate its hegemony" and had
nothing to do with humanitarian and moral principles.

But similarly rank reasoning was common. London's The Guardian newspaper columnist George Monbiot was not alone in sneering at US marines who, just a few weeks before saving lives in Sri Lanka, were "murdering civilians, smashing the homes and evicting the entire population of the Iraqi city of Fallujah".

The need to paint Americans as a greedy, selfish, war-mongering superpower
cannot be disturbed by facts. It matters not that, in the year before the
tsunami, the US provided $2.4 billion in humanitarian relief: 40per cent of all
the relief aid given to the world in 2003. Never mind that development and
emergency relief rose from $10 billion during the last year of Bill Clinton's
administration to $24 billion under George W. Bush in 2003. Or that, according
to a German study, Americans contribute to charities nearly seven times as much
a head as Germans do. Or that, adjusted for population, American philanthropy is
more than two-thirds more than British giving.

There is a teenaged immaturity about the rest of the world's relationship with
the US. Whenever a serious crisis erupts somewhere, our dependence on the US
becomes obvious, and many hate the US because of it. That the hatred is
irrational is beside the point

We can denounce the Yanks for being Muslim-hating flouters of international law
while demanding the US rescue Bosnian Muslims from Serbia without UN authority.
We can be disgusted by crass American materialism and ridiculous stockpiling of
worldly goods yet also be the first to demand material help from the US when
disaster strikes.

The really unfortunate part about this adolescent love-hate relationship with
the US is that, unlike most teenagers, many never seem to grow out of it. Within
each new generation is a vicious strain of irrational anti-Americanism. But
unlike a parent, the US could just get sick of it all and walk away.

The US has had isolationist periods in the past and it must be enormously
tempted sometimes to have another one soon. The consequences of that possibility
deserve some serious thought. If the neighbours worry about Russian bullying
over oil and gas, just imagine a Russia unfettered by a US military presence in
Europe. How long would South Korea, Israel or Taiwan last if the US decided it
wanted to spend on itself the money it presently devotes to military spending in
the Middle East and Asia?

No country has as many or as strident critics - internally and externally - as
the US. The US actually promotes such debate. But just occasionally we should
moderate that criticism when circumstances demand a dose of fairness.

Indeed, why not break into a standing ovation every now and again? As more US
C-130s and helicopters stand waiting on Burma's doorstep, desperate to help a
shattered populace and stymied only by an appalling anti-US regime, this is one
of those times.

Let's hear it for America.

submitted by JaNeT
Pic by EdDiE at atomicpanda.com

Happy BDay Little Satan!

Luftwaffe era air raid horns wail. A crunk up beat clips Klipsch speakers (H/T Dr Fred Kaplan) and a sexyiful siren oozes cooing about her sweet tight goodies - like an irresistable pie on a window sill.

"When I come to the club, step aside (Oh Snap!)

Part the seas, don’t be have me in no line. (Oh Snap!)

V.I.P., ‘cause you know I gotta shine."

Oh Snap!

Happy BDay Little Satan!

Some things just get better as time goes by. And just like Great Satan, Little Satan continues to cruise. Totally off the hook in any endeavour - arts, academics, the Beatles, biz, communication, education, medicine, science, space exploration, tech - Little Satan is one sexy magical pixie.


Hotter than a firecracker and twice as loud Little Satan is also nigh indestructable. And She knows it!

"And I’m like get up out my face, (Oh Snap!)

'fore I turn around and spray your asset with mace. (Oh Snap!)

My lips make you wanna have a taste. (Oh Snap!)

You got that? I got the bass. "

Oh Snap! Hanging in appearantly the only spot ever in the ME with like zero oil (compy speaking), no friendly homies on her borders, a tiny pop, little real estate (after the show ho's like Gaza, WB and Har Dov Frams included - Little Satan "occupies" less than 1% of the Arab world and less than 1/10th of a % of mohammedist turf), no Suez Canal, no militias or resistance movements, Little Satan's very existence gives the eternal finger to all her failed, backwards, repressive hoodies.



She is far superior, far more humane than Hosni's Egypt, Abdullah's (v2.0) Jordan, Bashar's Syria and ex colonies like Abbas' West Bank , HAMAS' Gaza Strip, Royal Saudiland and embattled Lebanon.


Beaches and biotches - Little Satan puts the 'HO' in "Holy Land."



And like the predator boi down the street (THAT LOOK) - Little Satan's neighbors in the hood just can't let go. They want her soooo bad - If only their hot frenzied fantasies could come true - all would instantly be right in their world.


The tingly feeling would last forever!

"On a certain day everything would be obliterated and instantaneously
reconstructed and the new inhabitants would leave, as if by magic, the land they
had despoiled; in this way will justice be dispensed to the victims."

What the heck is it about about less than 7 million people and turf tiny -er than the Garden State? Why cause Little Satan functions like a rocket rich reject magnet?


Because! Arab consensus is off the hook. Expertly christened the Little Satan - she is the sole soul cause of all the ME's probs.


Al-Jazeera's commandant editor Ahmed Sheikh explains

"The Palestinian cause is central for Arab thinking. It’s because we always
lose to Israel. It gnaws at the people in the Middle East that such a small
country as Israel, with only about 7 million inhabitants, can defeat the Arab
nation with its 350 million.

That hurts our collective ego. The Palestinian problem is in the genes of
every Arab. The West’s problem is that it does not understand this.

In many Arab states, the middle class is disappearing. The rich get richer
and the poor get still poorer. Look at the schools in Jordan, Egypt or Morocco:
You have up to 70 youngsters crammed together in a single classroom. How can
a teacher do his job in such circumstances? The public hospitals are also in a
hopeless condition. These are just examples. They show how hopeless the
situation is for us in the Middle East. "

Oh Snap! Little Satan - has survived - despite revolutionary Pan Arabic Nat'lism, reactionary mohammedism and the best goodies Warsaw Pact time Russia could create, share and deploy.


And this is the real prob for Nakbahland.

Little Satan gives more than the finger - she reflects what could have been - like a mirror - and mirrors don't lie.


Unlike her neighbors - Little Satan has military prowess - yet she's unmilitaristc. She accomodated all faiths - yet remains secular. She absorbs refugees from the entire world - creating loyal, productive citizens throughout an Alamo - Masada environment that created sustained and maintained a tolerant, egalitarian democracy.


The hood of the ME could have learned from this but it didn't. Michael Orrin explains in "6 Days of War" that Little Satan's ME hoodmates are driven.

"Forbidden by dictatorial regimes to voice political ideas on any subject
but Israel and increasingly driven by the lack of basic freedoms."

Missile magnetic wicked free Little Satan - unabashedly swinging her skirt flirt high enough to almost see her goodies, busting out with bling, high tech and the most PHD's per capita in the entire ME (135 per 10K for staticians).



Chief Economist and director of the Global Competitiveness Network, Augusto Lopex-Claros, confides:

"Israel has become a world technology powerhouse, and this is beginning to have
favorable demonstration effect on the rest of the economy. Israel has benefited
from the development of culture of innovation, supported by
first-classinstitutions of higher education and scientific research."

Little Satan's 60th paints a pic of what could have been. A liberal polity in ancient lands sharing an unbridled affinity for freedom of choice sans antique avatistic tribal superstitions, poverty and abject cruelty.



It's only fitting that Great Satan hits the hood to celebrate with true soul mates in recognition of Little Satan's sometimes perilous, sometimes scary yet always relentless march to hold freedom's lamp aloft in shedding light on a true path to success.

And that mirror lamp reflects more than jealousy and failure

"They do not hate the West because of Israel, they hate Israel because of
the West -- because they see it is an island of Western democratic values in a
sea of despotism."

And Great Satan brings bling to gift her spiritual little sister on this especial joyful moment. Like military pacts and a fully crunk brand spanking new missile killing X Band Radar system that puts the 'ill' in rocket shield.


Created by Raytheon, Great Satan admits X Band is a relentless tracker that can track a baseball from like a range of nearly 3K miles (4.8K kilometers for the metrically inclined) away.


Such bling renders Persian, Gazan or Hiz'B'Allah missilery wizardry about as worthy as a no game player perched on the passenger side of his best friend's ride trying to holler at hotties. Totally null and void.


It is only cool and natch for Great Satan to hook up with Little Satan - just like best girlfriends forever - nigh indistinguishable.

"That is why they call Israel the Little Satan, to distinguish it clearly from the ountry that has always been and will always be the Great Satan – The United States of America."

Oh Snap!


Happy BDay Little Satan!

Silence

The Arab Leagues recent hook up in Cairo to worry and wring hands while Lebanon gets devoured by the Mullahs and their bloody protrubrences like Hiz'B'Allah failed to speak out about the one thing that was everyone's minds.

Essentially - what will you do when Iran exerts their hegemonic guerrilla goons on your little spot of turf?

Tariq Alhomayed points out

"Do the Arab states accept Syria's proposal that maintains that the occupation of an Arab state at the hands of a party that follows and receives the orders of Tehran is a purely domestic affair and that the Arab League need not do anything about it?

Do the Arab states accept to be lectured by the official Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman to enlighten us at what should and should not be? How can we accept that, especially since none of the Arab foreign ministers can speak Farsi!

What is taking place in Lebanon is by no means just an internal matter and moreover; the issue is much bigger than Lebanon. The hijacking of an Arab state, its occupation and staging a coup on its [diverse ethnic and religious] make-up is the completion of the Iranian expansion plan in the region. It is a matter that transcends the 'crescent' that King Abdullah II of Jordan had warned against – that crescent has now become a full moon and we are faced with a new map of Iran.

What is happening in Lebanon is not an internal matter at all, since 2004 alone the UN Security Council has adopted 15 resolutions related to Lebanon, not to mention the international tribunal investigating into the assassination of Rafik Hariri and other supporters.

After all this, how can one say that what is happening in Lebanon is a domestic matter – or else Tehran would have replaced the United Nations and as such, the Arab states that want legitimacy must go to Tehran and those that want to prove their credibility effectively must comply with Tehran's orders so as to not be deemed among the agents?

It is a bizarre understanding of matters, particularly since we see Tehran and Washington negotiating over Iraq, and Syria and Israeli negotiating quietly, enjoying a silence that even Mahmoud Abbas, whom Hamas deems a traitor, does not enjoy. In fact; not talking about the Syrian-Israeli negotiations has surpassed the quiet realms into absolute silence on the part of the Arab groups that seek to undermine Arab regimes, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and Hezbollah!

In answer to the question that the ministers failed to ask, which is what would you require of the Arab League if your country was subjected to what Lebanon is enduring, yesterday an Arab foreign minister told me,

"The question was on every Arab minister's mind – but silently. Everyone is
aware of this question, but silently."

Unnatural Disaster

Cyclones, Earthquakes, Floods, Hurricanes, Tsunamis, Typhons kill. The number of victims though is actually determined by unnatural means directly related to natural disaster. So far Myanmar (despotic for 'Burma') reckons that nearly 23K are confirmed dead and another 42K are missing.


Great Britain says casualties could top the 100K mark. But Burma's own unelected illegitimate rulers are awful slow in accepting and directing aid sent to save and comfort.

"The full scale of the disaster will only become apparent over the next few
days as relief teams are able to reach remote communities in cyclone-affected
areas. Assessments by the UN and other international agencies have been delayed
by difficulties with communications and access.

The situation is becoming increasingly perilous, with relief capacity inside the country already severely stretched. This is an ongoing crisis for the Burmese people, and we are working hard with others in the International Community to do all we can for the relief effort."

More people actually die after the hit than during it. Contaminated water spreads infection and disease. No shelter, no sanitation and no clean aqua transform disaster and tragedy into catastrophe.


So far the regime's response to the torment of their own people has been 'incendiary'

"We believe that the best way forward would be for the junta to provide
access, which the whole international community - including Ban Ki-moon -
is requesting.

"That's why we've been making direct approaches, but we've also been
speaking to other governments, including the government of China, urging them
that there should be a united front to say that the access needs to be provided
immediately."

The Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (way back in 1989 the military in Burma has dug Myanmar as a conventional name for the state which is a derivative of the Burmese short-form name Myanma Naingngandaw)

Burma is actually a resource rich land - oil, timber, precious stones and jade. CIA's dossier is quite revealing. A pop of 47.7 million - a lit rate of almost 90% and 31.5K online.

"Suffering from pervasive government controls, inefficient economic
policies, and rural poverty. The junta took steps in the early 1990s to
liberalize the economy after decades of failure under the "Burmese Way to
Socialism," but those efforts stalled, and some of the liberalization measures
were rescinded.

Despite Burma's increasing oil and gas revenue, socio-economic conditions
have deteriorated due to the regime's mismanagement of the economy. Lacking
monetary or fiscal stability, the economy suffers from serious macroeconomic
imbalances

Most overseas development assistance ceased after the junta began to
suppress the democracy movement in 1988 and subsequently refused to honor the
results of the 1990 legislative elections."

And that's the real rub. Burma's generals know what happens when foreign humanitarians show up with goodies and hope for survivors. The relief effort after the 2004 tsunami brought change in Aceh where the massive international presence was one of the factors that persuaded the Indonesian government and rebels to bring their long conflict to an end.

Political change came to Pakistan after large numbers of foreigners were allowed into Kashmir after the earthquake there in 2005.

Planet Myanmar is a model for regime change. Fully stocked with misery, denied their fair and square elected leaders by junta and secret police, Burma fits the descript of a regime that torments it's own people - and for a xenophobic clique of intolerant self aggrandizing slave traders

"Burma is a source country for men, women, and children trafficked to East
and Southeast Asia for sexual exploitation, domestic service, and forced
commercial labor; a significant number of victims are economic migrants who
wind up in forced or bonded labor and forced prostitution.

Burma is a country of transit and destination for women trafficked from China for sexual exploitation; internal trafficking of persons occurs primarily for labor in industrial zones and agricultural estates; internal trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation occurs from villages to urban centers and other areas; the military junta's economic mismanagement, human rights abuses, and policy of using forced labor are driving factors behind Burma's large trafficking problem.

Burma does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of
trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so

This is significant. The UN should be used as a weapon like France hints to bring up the 'Atrocity Prevention' clause to drive the regime onto the defensive before driving them out of biz.


The last thing the generals now want is an influx of foreign aid officials and journalists to upset the equilibrium just as it holds a faux referendum on the new 'constitution' recently dreamed up.


Letting in a huge influx of foreigners (many dying to get there and render aid) could fuel more criticism of their political reforms, their corrupt inept gov and their 400K military that is actually quite good at squashing monks and unarmed protesters than building roads, managing humanitarian crisis and tending to their own people.



This horrible event and the Burmese Generals Clique horrific apathy about it could very well be an opportunity to implement the semi non violent regime change operational methodologies like Great Britain laid out in the Democratic Imperatives:

"In some cases, sanctions are not enough. In extreme cases the failure of states
to exercise their responsibility to protect their own civilians from genocide or
ethnic cleansing warrant military intervention on humanitarian grounds."

Former UN Relief cat Jan Egeland agrees -

"Invade."

Thanks Mom

4 eVeRyThInG!

ILY

Distress

Distress. Iran's bloody body part collecting minions force tiny tiny terrified tormented Beirut as Hiz'B'Allah savages her and has their way with her.

HBA has taken West Beirut - specifically taking Lebanon's communications offline, besieging the airport, capturing different sects' sectors and routing Hariri's 'Future' Party.


Hiz'B'Allah was pretty much built - officially anyway - to roust rowdy Little Satan out of Lebanon.

Since the naughty IDF split Lebanon back in y2K - HBA's legend d'etre' has become a legend de retarde' that still kills.

"The Legend of Hezbollah ceased to be after it turned its weapon internally
on Lebanon. In the wake of Nasrallah's speech and after declaring war on
Siniora's government; the party and its leader (the architect of the divine
victory) have been exposed for what they truly are."

Hezbollah's hijacking of Beirut, which it has been actually occupying
since the famous sit-in, has revealed that the talk about resistance was just a
cover and a big lie to which the Arabs have been accustomed repeatedly as well
as to believing it.

This lie about Hezbollah's resistance is one we have encountered often in
our contemporary history, and we still continue to believe it and argue over it
even though we know that it is nothing but a lie.

Lebanon's issue is not the airport or that of an officer who disobeys the state
and obeys a party's orders but the principal issue is the lie and believing it,
the lie that leads to the destruction of our nations.

A lie we saw in the summer war of 2006. Some believed at the time that Hassan
Nasrallah had taught Israel a harsh lesson. But what was the price of this
lesson?

Of course, a broken Lebanon, a besieged government, ministers under house
arrest in a hotel, a state begging for money, and more imperative than all this
1,000 Lebanese killed, sacrificed for Nasrallah.

We are used to lies and have become accustomed to living with lies in the
Arab world; how else could Iran be capable of setting up a telecommunications
network for Hezbollah that operates outside the state's framework and then have
the party consider the communications company part of the resistance weapon,
just like the airport and the airport manager - so what remains of Lebanon as a
state?

What is happening in Lebanon today is clear evidence that Hezbollah must be
disarmed and the state must impose its authority over all Lebanon and it should
not be in the hands of Nasrallah, Iran, and Syria.

Lebanon must be a state administered by a cabinet, not from secret hideouts

Have we forgotten that Sunni Hamas swept over and occupied Gaza and
declared a coup? And what is the difference now when we have a party occupying
Beirut, a group occupying Gaza, with Iran and Syria's support?

Hezbollah's legend has most certainly ended. But the price of discovering
the lie of Hassan Nasrallah and his party is going to be costly for Lebanon and
the Lebanese and the Arab world as a whole.

We are facing a new chapter that is as bad as the previous one in which the
Lebanese citizen will pay a very heavy price and therefore those toying with
Lebanon must pay a price that ensures an end to the era of violating Lebanon. "