The conversation that got caught by the mike demonstrates an understanding of the region far beyond anything you usually attribute to Bush and Blair. The UN doesn't seem to understand that merely declaring a unilateral cease-fire (and not retrieving Israel's lost soldiers, not doing anything to remove a terrorist organization from its borders, etc.) merely allows them to regroup and continue massing forces on our border for the next incursion.
Never forget that Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon was universally recognized as complete and that Hizbullah, as a part of the Lebanese government, has committed a direct act of war from one sovereign state to another. It wasn't an act of "resistance", of "freedom fighting", or any of the other bullshit that Europe tends to use to legitimize Islamic terrorism. And putting up a cease-fire won't solve the root of the problem: Iran and Syria trying to reduce international pressure on their own regimes by focusing the world's attention elsewhere through a terrorist proxy. Bush and Blair's conversation demonstrates an understanding of this that many other people seem to lack.
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Date: 2006-07-18 09:13 pm (UTC)Never forget that Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon was universally recognized as complete and that Hizbullah, as a part of the Lebanese government, has committed a direct act of war from one sovereign state to another. It wasn't an act of "resistance", of "freedom fighting", or any of the other bullshit that Europe tends to use to legitimize Islamic terrorism. And putting up a cease-fire won't solve the root of the problem: Iran and Syria trying to reduce international pressure on their own regimes by focusing the world's attention elsewhere through a terrorist proxy. Bush and Blair's conversation demonstrates an understanding of this that many other people seem to lack.