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Kling hundreds of inate chilans nthe oroces (ne tumina en < mM a)al) ATET > 2:47 PM @ 95% am) @ web.archive.org = | rrothing fromthe American experience in just as our neocons learned nothing from Israelis 40 pilus years of attempts ta occupy, bomb, assassinate, pulverize and strafe the various Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian’ Arabs around them Into. submission. The bottom line now is the same as it has always been: you cannot kill enough of your enemies to make the people of the Muslim world accept, respect or permit themselves to be dominated by you. Eventually, the occupied will get even. 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Let's just ‘era hope that by the time they do, a Lebanon hasn't yet become a fa ‘tenon state, with no infrastructure left, and Sno a people burning for revenge. = Terrorism isn't a simle black and white equation -- we are good and ie free, they are captive and terroristic. ut 1s symptom of a much larger and ‘aout more inplacable disease, which is Sue transmitted by colonialism, resource ford greed, racism, (and Zionism), and the Matte insrutable Europen characteristic of einoting ‘eae seeing every dark complectee person saci ets as a rube, easily disadvantaged and lpcecneres Se en, mine cotar ‘Shea agro aes emer2:48 PM @ web.archive.org the end ofthe day, are more Important“ t2.“Amenans = theoretically ~ than the interests of Taree = il be deastous, And given fur equally messy.invaverent In Iraq, the US. cant afford to have interest further harmed. So tt may feel good for American [Ukadrks to watch frat do what the fmerican president ‘conaot andl rot ~ wage war on the enemies. of Zion = nether he Arab world nor the larger muslim world wil ever submit {o what they see as srelAmerican aeempes dominate their region Even if Israel and_the U.S. could install puppet governments from Cero to Tehran, put private Companies in charge of the natural Fesourees of every county fom Block ‘ice to East Asie, and expe every ‘rab tom Pasting, the Muslim word wil continue to. ght. them. The usin body. politic will continue %0 rebel, compuled by thelr religion and by a millennial == and very human coral “essue rejection” of the 1dea ‘of submission. An inthe end Lae eLlose- Ana Ameren wil oe Meanwhile, Israel itary leaders ponder the lms ot aie pawee. nd 3 fiture lined with nuke-tpped bunker busters ‘he Jewish jas quit the U.S, to Sat up Tt Av Pat Buchanan says. no, Mears tow and Kristol, we_are_notall Israelis." <-TIME's Mike Allen reports that Bush (or somebody) i sending Cond Fe tothe Mideast 9 Buld an "arab lumbeala”” (ef Sunni and Wahab Musims) against (Shite) Mezbolah (@nd'by extension, shite, non-Arab Tran... He doesnt expian why Aa Countries would. take Teraels sde ‘against the pleading of 2 felon Arab {eague member (Lebanon), whose ‘my may well wind up figting trae at Hezbols's sie, oF how ts new Umbrella would unfold over shite ‘donate tea. ‘A, *plomacy..* Taos: Ismel, Labanan, neocons, Pat ‘Buchanan, Bal Krstl posted by Red © 4:13 at