Lou Dobbs: Not so smart when it comes to the Middle East

We Americans like to think we’re a pretty smart people, even when evidence to the contrary is overwhelming. And nowhere is that evidence more overwhelming than in the Middle East. History in the Middle East is everything, and we Americans seem to learn nothing from it.

Sort of. The US policy of arming Israel to be its proxy has been governmental policy for decades. The US is not clueless in the Middle East, rather the US is actively supporting the Lebanon invasion.

However, mainstream media coverage of the invasion has shifted noticeably in the past few days from Israel Can Do No Wrong to serious questioning of what’s going on.

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Israel is sending troops into Lebanon. And blowing up civilian apartment buildings. All for two captured soldiers, they claim, and a bogus claim it is. Lebanon and Israel have been capturing each others soldiers for years, yet now Israel is sending fighter jets to blow up civilian homes, a war crime if there ever was one. Why now?

Israel has also occupied parts of Lebanon for years. It’s not about the two soldiers. It’s about the US and Israel working hand in hand for “regime change” in Lebanon, Syria, and Iran.

That regime change has been a failure in Afghanistan and Iraq doesn’t register with neocons and Zionists. Hezbollah will emerge from this stronger than ever and Israel will become a pariah nation like the US, bloodthirsty and unreliable. Bush destroyed any post-9/11 sympathy the world had for the US with his insane invasions and contempt for the law. The same will happen to Israel. Any goodwill they have with the world community will vaporize.

The neocons and Zionists delude themselves into to thinking that a superior military means they will win. This wasn’t true in Vietnam, where the US was defeated. Ditto for Iraq and Afghanistan, where the US is also losing.

Israel is not acting alone. This invasion is done with the explicit backing of the US, both financial and military. Bush badly needs a victory. So does Israel. But this savage invasion virtually guarantees them more defeats.

Just like in Vietnam.

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From BlairWatch (italics added)

A new moral low point

United States to Israel: you have one more week to blast Hizbullah

[quoting from The Guardian] “The US is giving Israel a window of a week to inflict maximum damage on Hizbullah before weighing in behind international calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon, according to British, European and Israeli sources.

The Bush administration, backed by Britain, has blocked efforts for an immediate halt to the fighting initiated at the UN security council, the G8 summit in St Petersburg and the European foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels.”

So, all this death and destruction on the long suffering Lebanese, is being brought to you by express permission of the Bush-Blair Neo-con alliance.

It’s got all their hallmarks, bombing Beirut’s slums, refugee camps and no discrimination between combatant and civilian.

As well as making-shit-up as a pretext for invading other countries.

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In Britain…

With the mercury expected to approach 100F (37.8C) for only the second time in Britain’s history - but also the second time in under three years - researchers said the unusual heat was entirely consistent with predictions of climate change caused by rising emissions of greenhouses gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2) from power stations, motor transport and, increasingly, aircraft.

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BlueHost, where this blog is hosted, has had two power outages in five days.

They apologized, then detailed precisely how they’ve fixed the problem. All servers now will have power even if Utah Power and Light is down.

Rumors state that the power issues have been Utah Power and Light having issues. That is true. Why does it affect Bluehost so much, if we have backup generators and UPS systems? Simple. The UPS systems are working as they should be. The generator only works for the second building. Once this was made abundantly clear last Friday, and what it’s impact can be, we started plans to fix the issue.

Here is the problem. Moving 100 servers (85 client boxes and various support systems) takes a lot of work and time. Especially when we do not want to affect customers’ uptime more than they have already been affected.

The second power outage came before we could get the majority of the affected servers on reliable backup power. We pushed forward with an accelerated plan once the outage happened (since they were down anyway) and now have them where we needed them to be.

It wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t ideal. It is fixed.

Works for me.

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The vast bulk of campaign contributions for both Lamont and Lieberman comes from out-of-state. 70% for Lamont, 80% for Lieberman.

I guess the people of Connecticut are afterthoughts for both candidates.

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