Tuesday, October 01, 2024

THE PERILS OF PUNTING RESPONSIBILITY

By Bob Walsh


Hezbollah fighters attend the funeral of their commander Wissam al-Tawil, in the village of Khirbet Selm, south Lebanon, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024.


Lebanon used to be a very nice place I am told.  Pretty.  Prosperous.  Tolerant.  The government of Lebanon has essentially folded up over the last several years and operational control of the country is now in the hands of fundamentalist goatfucker Islamic fanatics.  It is about to cost the people of Lebanon dearly.

Assuming the mainstream media is to be believed Israel is about to move into Lebanon with a significant ground action.  They are tired of their country being attacked by what is allegedly non-state actors who seem to be able to act with impunity.  

Nature abhors a vacuum.  If you don't run your country somebody else will do it for you, and it is likely to be somebody you don't like and who has no interest in protecting the people and property of the locals.  If those people piss off a nation-state that is both willing and capable of expressing it's unhappiness you and your property are at some risk.  That's life in the real world.

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