Iran's Stealth War

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This is a fairly long article in Newsweek so I will not post entirely. It points to Iran, not that it would surprise anyone. It points to Iran being behind the insurgence in Iraq and elswhere in the Middle East and around the world.

The Hand That Feeds the Fire

Behind The Crisis: How Iran is wielding its influence to wage a stealthy war against Israel and America.

July 24, 2006 issue - The cool rage of Hassan Nasrallah crackled over the telephone line to a Beirut television station. Israeli jets had just tried to kill him from the air, destroying his home and office. "You wanted an open war, and we are ready for an open war," the Hizbullah leader warned. His missile-armed militia would reach deep into Israel. "Our homes will not be the only ones to be destroyed, our children will not be the only ones to die," he vowed. "You wanted to change the rules of the game? You don't know who you're fighting."

He had a point. Israel's nearby enemy was clear enough. The crisis began in Gaza on June 25, when a corporal in the Israeli Army was taken hostage by Hamas guerrillas. Then it exploded across the region last week after Hizbullah guerrillas crossed into Israel to snatch two more soldiers, killing eight. Israel's reaction was swift, brutal and massive. Its forces took the whole of Lebanon hostage, treating the state on its northern border just as it treated the Palestinian territory to its south, tearing apart highways, blockading ports, blowing up the runways and fuel dumps at Beirut's international airport—setting out not only to free the hostages but to eliminate Hizbullah once and for all. Yes, this was war. Nasrallah was right about that.

Hizbullah: Iran created the Shiite Lebanese militia Hizbullah—the "Party of God"—after Israeli troops stormed into Beirut in 1982.

The Palestinians: There's no more potent issue in the Muslim world than the fate of the Holy Land, and Iran has been looking for a piece of that righteous action since the early days of the Khomeini revolution.

The Syrians: Posters on walls all over Damascus last week showed President Bashar al-Assad flanked by Nasrallah on one side and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the other.

The Iraqis: Tehran scarcely needs Syrian help to infiltrate Iraq. Iran's influence is pervasive there already.

The Iranians: When Tehran's chief nuclear negotiator

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13881857/site/newsweek/

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I say nuke Iran!

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I'm guessing that the next country we go after won't have much left on the ground for our 'boots' to land on. Everything we've done to Iraq will be that , and then some. No need to nuke anyone, because we'll likely drop so many Daisy Cutters.

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Take the head off the beast, yesterday.