LEBANON UPDATE: Lights out in Lebanon … at least temporarily
Posted by editor on 16 May 2008 at 2:06 pm UTC
The proverbial lights have gone out in Lebanon … at least temporarily.
Heartbreaking to say the least — strategically problematic to be sure — but the Lebanese government, the Lebanese army, and the Western nations which vowed to stand with them (Lebanon, remember, is a vital front in the war on terror) have apparently all caved to the will and guns of the Iranian-Syrian-Hezbollah axis.
Be assured, however, the brave, freedom-loving Lebanese people — a majority in that country — have not surrendered to anyone: Nor does that majority have any intention of surrendering.
I know these people — some of the best friends and allies America can ever hope to have — and this fight they have against a Taliban-like terrorist army in Lebanon is not over.
I’ll have more on this, this weekend.
(Hezbollah photo - StrategyPage.com)
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