tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719362718346107647.post3121490275191842882..comments2024-03-16T09:11:27.097-04:00Comments on GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD: Monroe DoctrineGrEaT sAtAn'S gIrLfRiEnDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09760252542953109449noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719362718346107647.post-22260829373917340932012-01-31T12:31:45.254-05:002012-01-31T12:31:45.254-05:00Conflating a funding network with operations is pr...Conflating a funding network with operations is pretty sloppy. Does Hezbollah have supporters in LA? Yes; mostly Lebanese descended from immigrants who fled the US, Israeli, and Syrian-funded civil war of the 70s-80s. Are these supporters bomb-makers and shooters? No. Are they even members of Hezbollah? No. What they are is money men, and the handful of arrests of these individuals reflects this.<br /><br />Yes, Iran does have a strong ally (rhetorically, at least) in Venezuela, but what is that really worth? It did absolutely nothing for Gaddafi. It does little enough for Cuba (in fact, given the excellence of Cuban medical training, I'd say Venezuela was the real beneficiary of that deal). Moreover, Chavez may be dead in a year or two from heart disease, his cult of personality is growing increasingly shaky as the economic destruction he has wrought makes supporting the poor who are his primary electoral base increasingly difficult, and even when his position was strong, the most significant military action he could muster was funding the FARC in Columbia(a bordering state), a terrorist org who, let us not forget, is now defunct; crushed under the weight of the excellent US trained and funded Colombian military.<br /><br />These fears are overblown, and Iranian rhetoric regarding a Latin American threat to the US is nothing more than morale-boosting hot-air. The fact of the matter is that neither you or the AEI can point to a single operational threat from south of the border, or even an operational attempt to cross it. Honestly, you are a more than capable scholar and you're better than this WND-type propaganda.Heronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14776242322789918501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719362718346107647.post-1915739274241134692012-01-30T14:20:24.062-05:002012-01-30T14:20:24.062-05:00Hi Michal! While GsGf is hot for free uncensored f...Hi Michal! While GsGf is hot for free uncensored freedom of speech - sometimes the bloody spam filter thingy gets kinda wiggy. All apologies - it's up now!<br /><br />And great commentary too. Thank you!!GrEaT sAtAn'S gIrLfRiEnDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09760252542953109449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719362718346107647.post-49863308399477798852012-01-30T13:21:20.225-05:002012-01-30T13:21:20.225-05:00Hi, I wanted to ask whether including links to onl...Hi, I wanted to ask whether including links to online newspapers is a problem, when posting in comments? I'm not sure, just asking.<br /><br />I was commenting under the article "Going All The Way" and the comment never showed up.Michalnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719362718346107647.post-57541937137032559502012-01-30T01:49:07.698-05:002012-01-30T01:49:07.698-05:00Nice post. Keep up the good work.Nice post. Keep up the good work.AMWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03003530120705875703noreply@blogger.com