U.S. Watches Dreams of Transformation Dissolve

[occuserpens]

2006-08-04 Jim Lobe on the ME transformation

Jim Lobe. U.S. Watches Dreams of Transformation Dissolve

Not only is Washington's thus-far staunch support for Israel losing Arab ''hearts and minds'' at an astonishing pace, but the ''moderate'' governments and non-governmental forces which the administration had hoped would act as catalysts for reform are increasingly isolated across the region, according to Middle East specialists.

''I have never seen the United States being so demonised or savaged by Arab commentators, by Arab politicians,'' Hisham Melham, veteran Washington correspondent for Lebanon's An-Nahar newspaper, told a conference this week at the Brookings Institution, an influential think tank.

''People are clinging to Hezbollah, clinging to Hamas, because they see them as the remaining voices or forces in the Arab world that are resisting what they see as an ongoing hegemonic American-Israeli plan to control the region,'' he said.

[whistle]

1. BushCo and the neocons could give a rats ass about the hearts

...and minds of anyone but their own. All according to plan, which is why the rest of America needs to step in and stop this carnage now, impeach Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Condi and round up all the rest of the guilty bastards and put them away for life!

[Oversea Visitor]

2. You mean he fall off his bicycle again

:rofl:
What he hurt himself got more bruise all over :rofl:
Gee passenger hurt too :(

Oh well

In WAR there are no winners only losers
I lose less than you so I win :rofl:

Stupid is Stupid :rofl:

War on terror :rofl:

Perfect endless war for endless losses :rofl:

We winning we winning :rofl:

But gee how fight terror always around :rofl:

Pray for Victory :rofl:

Fight Terror with Prayer :rofl:

Fight fight lose less than the other guy win win :rofl:

Gee how come other countries grwoing faster

It is the losses STUPID :rofl:

[bronxiteforever]

3. The whole foreign policy of the United States is falling apart!!!!!

The whole Iraq fiasco has put in motion forces that have every potential of destroying the United States
I have a feeling my country is on life support and the President is Dr Kevorkian

[Hoping4Change]

7. "the President is Dr Kevorkian" LOL . Well said. nt

[Crunchy Frog]

4. Who could ever have possibly predicted

such an outcome for *'s foreign policy?:wow:

[occuserpens]

5. Hariri Jr. visits Russia

2006-08-04 Hariri Jr. visits Russia

[malaise]

6. Meanwhile

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2006/August/middleeast_August164.xml§ion=middleeast&col=

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Israel completely underestimated the size of Hezbollah’s arsenal and has been seemingly wrongfooted by the Shiite militant group’s strength and nature, an expert at a London-based think-thank told AFP Saturday.

“The Israelis lack good intelligence. They have completely underestimated the size of the Hezbollah arsenal, the amount of weapons they’ve got stockpiled,” Rosemary Hollis of the Chatham House foreign affairs institute said.

“It’s the classic situation of a guerrilla (war). You can’t win except by the most appalling devastation, which is a pyrrhic victory anyway.”...“They would quite like a ceasefire, but they need a success in order to get it,” Hollis said.

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By attacking Lebanon, Bushco's ally has exposed all her vulnerabilities. When push comes to shove, all the bombs and high tech weapons mean zilch as Bushco should have learnt from Iraq.

[Hubert Flottz]

8. Texas Chainsaw Diplomacy won in the SCOTUS 5 to 4...

You are seeing the will of the GOP in action, instead of the will of the people! It's perverted and it's not very pretty, what America has become since 2000. You can't blame 9/11 and Bill Clinton for everything that we see going wrong now.

[sendero]

9. There was never any doubt...

.. among those with 2 brain cells to rub together that our action in Iraq would be ultimately destabilizing.

The only real question is whether or not that was the real intent to begin with. And even that isn't much in question any more.