Indecisive Policy and Inaction
From the rhetoric of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, there is little doubt that they were behind Hezbollah in funding, training, and advanced military hardware. Therefore, it is certain that such support will continue as it is their stated objective to destroy Israel. As long as these two figures are in power, there will not be peace in the Middle East.
The deeper problem is that they are kept are in power by the peoples of their respective governments. Which means their ideology is endorsed and practiced by the rank and file. From a top-down point of view, the folks on the working level mostly follow whatever is fed them. So the real danger is that when leaders of this mentality are at the top, then it is the millions of people below them who will bear the consequences of their actions.
The world doesn’t need to look back very far in history to recall the horrors inflicted by a similar mentality – that of Adolph Hitler. Fortunately, Hitler was stopped while still in the progress of developing nuclear weapon technology. Had he succeeded, then the outcome of World War II would have been far more horrendous. Some 70 years later, the world is again faced with a remarkably similar threat. The rhetoric by President Ahmadinejad is inflammatory enough as it is, but coupled with his stated intention of developing advanced nuclear technology, his government is the most destabilizing influence in the world today.
World War II was fought and won in order to counter the imperial goals of a cadre of despots. The United Nations was established to forever prevent the emergence of another Hitler-like threat to world peace. However, such a threat is front and center in front of us and it looks like the UN leadership and world leaders have no clue what appropriate action to take. Instead, world leaders are looking after their own financial interests and hoping to find consensus. The problem is that the path to consensus leads them toward indecisive policy and inaction. Their delays and their acts of impotence will eventually cost many of them everything.
The deeper problem is that they are kept are in power by the peoples of their respective governments. Which means their ideology is endorsed and practiced by the rank and file. From a top-down point of view, the folks on the working level mostly follow whatever is fed them. So the real danger is that when leaders of this mentality are at the top, then it is the millions of people below them who will bear the consequences of their actions.
The world doesn’t need to look back very far in history to recall the horrors inflicted by a similar mentality – that of Adolph Hitler. Fortunately, Hitler was stopped while still in the progress of developing nuclear weapon technology. Had he succeeded, then the outcome of World War II would have been far more horrendous. Some 70 years later, the world is again faced with a remarkably similar threat. The rhetoric by President Ahmadinejad is inflammatory enough as it is, but coupled with his stated intention of developing advanced nuclear technology, his government is the most destabilizing influence in the world today.
World War II was fought and won in order to counter the imperial goals of a cadre of despots. The United Nations was established to forever prevent the emergence of another Hitler-like threat to world peace. However, such a threat is front and center in front of us and it looks like the UN leadership and world leaders have no clue what appropriate action to take. Instead, world leaders are looking after their own financial interests and hoping to find consensus. The problem is that the path to consensus leads them toward indecisive policy and inaction. Their delays and their acts of impotence will eventually cost many of them everything.
It is now absolutely clear that the Americans were behind this massacre by the zionists. Every weapon of mass destruction that was unleashed by the zionists to terrorise the Lebanese has the stamp of US authority on them. And as long as the murderous Bush is in power there is no chance of this changing. The US will keep arming the zionists to kill and terrorise the Palestinians and Lebanese and anyone else that opposes the occupation.
But it looks like now the tide is changing. the zionists are in disarray and the US ambitions in the middle east are up in flames.
Kerry
Australia
Posted by Anonymous | Sun Aug 27, 05:08:00 AM EDT
Interesting comments Kerry, how about the Iranian stamps on the bombs used by Hezbollah to injure the Israeli people.
You know war is a two way street. You are whinning that they Americans are behind all this, but I don't see them funding Hezbollah who is considered a terrorist cell? The US is funding a nation state, Israel, who has some legitimate concerns with border attacks and hostgages being taken. Take off your rose colored glasses and see the actions that are happening for what they are a terrorist insurgency taking over Lebanon and acting like a nation without any authority to actually do so.
Posted by The Watcher | Thu Sep 07, 12:52:00 PM EDT