UN ceasefire: as meaningfull as 1559?

So you will not see countries clamoring to move forces into Lebanon for quite a while because hostilities will still be underway. International forces are not going to come in until Israel gets the full pin on their opponent in other words. Look for this to run several more weeks, no matter what resolutions are made.

For some pretty good analysis of todays UN draft resolution, please see Walid Phares’ article at Counter Terrorism Blog, which outlines current positions pretty well.

There are a LOT of handwringers out there at the moment, but right now Israel wins even if this stops tomorrow, which is not going to happen. Let me explain.

Hezbollah has literally taken it in the shorts, and found out their allies aren’t really going to back them the way they thought they were going to. You can point out how well Hezbollah is doing compared to Hamas all you want, but in the end a lot more of them are dying than IDF, that’s what matters in war, asymetrical or not.

Iran can talk trash all they want, but the cage is closing on them as well right now, and they know that when real war comes, public opinion doesn’t matter for a long long time. As an example look at the steady agitprop campaigns against the war in Iraq, three years of steady drumbeat worldwide, and we are still making progress.

Iran also knows that the US is getting impatient with this Islamist Imperialism, and the next war isn’t going to run long. It will be more like Desert Storm, where the US crushes and walks away. No rebuilding, no help, no remorse.

So Amadinejad, the new leader of the master race, can blather all he wants: he knows if he makes the wrong move right now he’s toast, Qom is toast, and Tehran is toast. If that were to happen, then Iran’s economy would be in shambles, and the current government would not weather that storm. In Lebanon they have been set back economically several years, and when we entered Iraq it was obvious that they were still trying to recover from the war ten years prior. We didn’t try all that hard in Desert Storm either, things could have been much worse for Iraq then.

All the demonstrations and the support from hezbollah fans and factions around the world is just waking more and more people to the peril, so that’s not really helping either. It’s war, public opinion doesn’t matter in war for  at least the first year, the UN doesn’t matter, and Israel has actually set themselves up into a nice position here.

Israel and the US backers have taken the reasonable position that they will not leave until an international force is in place. Meanwhile Nasrallah has put Hezbollah into a bad spot by saying they won’t stop fighting until Israel is gone.

So you will not see countries clamoring to move forces into Lebanon for quite a while because hostilities will still be underway. International forces are not going to come in until Israel gets the full pin on their opponent in other words. Look for this to run several more weeks, no matter what resolutions are made.

The last cards Tehran has to play are the Sadr option, (see Counter Terrorism blog article on the Sadr-Nasrallah connection,) and the world-wide suicide bomber campaign. Both might create a short splash in the press, but will prove ineffective. IF the Sadr option is excercised in combination with Iran crossing the Iraqi border, that just makes the decision on the “Iran problem” easy and obvious to our military.

Here’s a view of the upcoming Newsweek article that goes pretty in-depth on the conflict, and points out the large amount of support Hezbollah has from Iran. If you don’t read the whole thing (most of it will be old news to Lizardoids and readers here) please do answer both polls.

4 thoughts on “UN ceasefire: as meaningfull as 1559?”

  1. Good essay, Thanos. I too believe that we should make sure our enemies know we plan to CRUSH them. No Marshall Plan. No sweetcakes nicey occupation and help. Just brute ugly force. That is the only thing that will save Western Civilization from the Islamic fascists.

    Since the beginning of its recent history, the First Aliyah, around 1880, Israel has tried to bring well being and modernization to the local Arabs. Their kindness has come to nothing. The Arabs/Muslims believe only in force–the rule of the strong. The United States MUST demonstrate in a highly VISIBLE way that we are the toughest, meanest, most scary nation in the world. Don’t mess with us, or you die.

  2. Another thought–if we come to blows with Iran, and I believe we will, we should take over their oilfields and tell them to go to hell. Tell them that times have changed. If they want their oil back, they’re going to have to be very nice to us, the meanest baddest imperialists the world has ever seen.

  3. Thanks for stopping by & Commenting, I appreciate it. On the other hand we could become independent of the oil ticks.

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