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| Hizbollah Says US War On Iraq Will End Its Superpower Status |
| 2002-10-23 |
| Source: MSNBC Hizbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said on Tuesday that a U.S. war on Iraq would be the beginning of the end for Washington's role as a superpower. "Will be." Not "could be," or "might be." ''The beginning of the American and Israeli attack on our region means the end of U.S. control over the world, because it will open on itself an unequal field of confrontation,'' the guerrilla group's leader told a religious ceremony in Beirut. ''The United States of America...knows that if it brings its armies to Iraq and to all the countries of the region, it won't be able to stay long.'' We don't intend to stay long. We want to kill all the people like Nasrallah and then leave... Nasrallah, whose Shi'ite Muslim group helped expel Israel from south Lebanon in 2000 after a 22-year occupation, suggested Washington and its ally Israel had deceived themselves into thinking they would dominate the region with an Iraq strike. ''The American administration must understand, and Israel must understand... that these (Arab and Islamic) people are not Red Indians, whom it can wipe out, eliminate or isolate in the deserts and mountains,'' he said. Well, he's certainly got a point there. Most of the Red Indians were tough, mostly honorable enemies, despite their penchant for flaying prisoners. They were distinguished by their bravery. Americans, now that the bad times are behind us, are pretty proud of them, and proud of themselves for having defeated such a formidable enemy. Most of the Islamists we've fought in the past year don't fit that bill. They're crummy fighters, successful only because they concentrate on civilian targets. A few hundred Apaches, Comanches, or Sioux from 150 years ago would have them running as fast as their curly-toed slippers could take them to safety. They were also, I might point out, culturally closer to their contemporary White Devils than today's Islamists are to us. Many contemporary Merkins have a dash of Indian blood, and most of us are proud of the fact. Most importantly, the Indians refused to be enslaved. The Caribs died off because they were constitutionally unable to take being slaves, and large numbers of Indians in the American south simply picked up and left because they wouldn't have anything to do with the idea. Islamists are fighting for their right to enslave each other and the rest of the world. I don't know if it's from the Indians or the British, or a combination of the two, that we got our national repugnance to the idea of kowtowing to a beturbanned and bejewelled Caliph with the power of life and death over his subjects. But I think enough Americans have that repugnance, and because of it we'll eventually throw Sheikh Nasrallah and his cronies onto the ash heap of history. As the joke says: A cowboy, an Indian, and a Muslim were waiting for a plane in Dallas, that had been delayed. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 YOU TOOK THE WORDS RITE OUT OF MY MOUTH POPS THATS A GOOD ONE |
| Posted by: DADDYO 2002-10-23 20:47:44 |
| #2 Unfortunately, American use of limited war options in Iraq, could have exactly the effect that Nasrallah predicts. This is a genocidal enemy, and should be engaged as such. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-10-23 16:41:19 |
| #1 YYyyyEEEEEHHHHaaaWWWWWWW!!! |
| Posted by: Hefty 2002-10-23 12:13:32 |