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Yeah, that's why.
"Cables reveal US efforts to curb arms flow in Middle East; Syria warned on shipments to Hezbollah; Buildup increases potential for war" by Michael R. Gordon and Andrew W. Lehren, New York Times / December 7, 2010
WASHINGTON — The newly fortified Hezbollah has raised fears that any future conflict with Israel could erupt into a full-scale regional war....
Wielding surveillance photos and sales contracts, US diplomats have confronted foreign governments about shadowy front companies, secretive banks, and shippers around the globe, according to secret State Department cables obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to several news organizations.
Like CIA rendition flights or State Department cover?
US officials have tried to block a Serbian black marketer from selling sniper rifles to Yemen. They have sought to disrupt the sale of Chinese missile technology to Pakistan, the cables show, and questioned Indian officials about chemical industry exports that could be used to make poison gas.
See: Tied Up in an Indian Traffic Jam
Idiot terrorists can't do anything.
But while US officials can claim some successes — Russia appears to have deferred delivery of the S-300 air defense system to Iran — the diplomats’ dispatches underscore how often their efforts have been frustrated in trying to choke off trade by Syria and others, including Iran and North Korea.
Wikileaks really knows how to hammer those war drums, 'eh?
The United States is the world’s largest arms supplier, and with Russia, dominates trade in the developing world. Its role as a purveyor of weapons to certain allies — including Israel, Saudi Arabia, and other Persian Gulf states — has drawn criticism it has fueled an arms race.
Yeah, proliferation i$ okay if AmeriKa doe$ it.
But it has also taken on a leading role as traffic cop in trying to halt deliveries of advanced weapons and other arms to militants and adversaries.
Meaning we wave some through and halt others, huh?
It is the arms transactions involving Syria and Hezbollah, however, that appear to be among the Obama administration’s gravest concerns....
Nothing but an appendage of Israel.
“Syria’s determined support of Hizballah’s military build-up, particularly the steady supply of longer-range rockets and the introduction of guided missiles could change the military balance and produce a scenario significantly more destructive than the July-August 2006 war,” said a November 2009 cable from the American chargé d’affaires in Damascus....
Yes, the balance must be all on one side of the teeter-totter -- and that side is towards Israel.
FLASHBACK:
A Beirut suburb last July, after Israeli airstrikes ordered by Ehud Olmert
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Is that the kind of thing he was talking about?
A major worry was that Syria or Iran had provided Hezbollah with Fateh-110 missiles, with the range to strike Tel Aviv. Israeli officials told American officials in November 2009 that if war broke out, they assumed that Hezbollah would try to launch 400 to 600 rockets at day and sustain the attacks for at least two months, the cables note.
How long would it take for Israel to empty its arsenal (assuming the U.S. wouldn't keep supplying arms)?
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Time to destabilize Lebanon:
"In Beirut, foes urge sit-ins as Hezbollah sows Cabinet seeds" by Bassem Mroue, Associated Press | January 27, 2011
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s Western-backed coalition called on supporters yesterday to hold daily sit-ins in downtown Beirut to protest the growing power of the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah....
I'm sorry, readers; however, I am so sick of the coded war terminology in my Zionist War Daily.
Do they ever say U.S-backed Zionist militants of Israel?
Fares Soeid, a senior official with the Western-backed coalition known as March 14, said the country is becoming entirely beholden to Hezbollah....
Good!
They are the ones who ACTUALLY DEFENDED the PLACE when it is under Israeli assault.
Wary of Hezbollah’s position, thousands of Sunnis poured into the streets across Lebanon over the past two days, burning tires, throwing rocks, and accusing the militant group of a coup d’état.
When they DID IT according to LEBANESE PARLIAMENTARY LAW?
And why would they be so upset when Hezbollah nominated a SUNNI to the POST?
Some of the most intense protests Tuesday took place in the northern city of Tripoli, a hotbed of Sunni fundamentalism.
AmeriKa lining up with that lot?
Yesterday, traffic had returned to normal and schools and shops had opened. Two armored personnel carriers and several soldiers stood guard nearby....
Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati, a billionaire businessman and Harvard graduate, has called for a unity government that would bring together Lebanon’s diverse society — a sign that the militant group does not want to push its power too far and risk isolation abroad and an escalation of tensions at home.
Why did the report leave out the fact that he is Sunni?
But the fact that Hezbollah, a group known as much for its ties to Shi’ite Iran as for its hostility to Israel, chose Mikati and secured enough backing in parliament to make him prime minister underscores Tehran’s growing influence in the region at a time when Washington’s is waning.
Then WE BETTER GO TO WAR RIGHT NOW and HASTEN that WANE!
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