Reply #11: What were they supposed to do? [View All]

[nealmhughes]

stop every truck going into Lebanon? Why is Lebanon so weak as to not stop militias period is a better question. But there is no answer to that. Israel and Lebanon, Syria and Jordan are all artificial countries. One cousin lives in Syria, another 100 yards away in Lebanon, why? Because that is how the Brits and French drew the lines after the peace treaties that ended the Ottoman Empire.

Lebanon went to the French as its outlet to the sea. Palstine went to the Brits. Syria went first to the Hashemites after the Arab Revolt of 1918 and then the French imposed their mandate and the king became king of Iraq. The Transjordan became the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

The modern states are lines carved on maps. There are Mizrahim, Arameans, Arabs, Bedouins and even Kurds all native in the area. To complicate matters, religion is a picture puzzle with three or four Orthodox denominations, RC, and Protestants in Lebanon and Syria, then one has Alawites, Sunni and Shiite Muslims and the Druze to top things off...and the large Jewish population in Israel now.

It's all Greater Syria geographically. The entire area, along with Egypt was once Christian before the rise of Islam. Now it ain't.

Complicate enough? Now let's throw in basic Syrian hegemony and desire for encreased hegemony over all of Greater Syria and oil money from Iran and we have a mess on our hands.

Remember Lebanon just got out of a 16 year civil war based on various militias. No wonder the Hizbollah got their missiles in there!