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Hezbollah Is Now the Shiite Version of the French Foreign Legion
Hezbollah Is Now the Shiite Version of the French Foreign Legion
Hezbollah has been fighting to prevent sectarian slaughter in Syria just as it has worked to bridge the Shiite-Sunni divide in Lebanon while protecting that nation from Israeli ground attack and occupation. Yet, its motives have been suspect only because Wahabbist and Salafist Takfiri propaganda has been left uncountered due to U.S. subservience to Saudi interests.
Hezbollah was the first Muslim army to force a retreat of the vaunted IDF while destroying Merkava tanks en mass during its Operation Cast Lead. Hezbollah’s defense of Israeli ground attack was so successful that it led to Israel countering with crimes against humanity of such a grotesque atrociousness that it necessitated an attack by Israel upon UN observers to prevent their documenting the aerial bombardment against civilian population centers and civil infrastructure to include UN schools with illegal white phosphorous ammunition.
Very respected military analysts, whom teach at US military academies that include West Point, have stated that Hezbollah may even be a cut above U.S. Army Ranger battalions. They have become the premier fighting force in the Middle East and analysts state that they may be more powerful than the army of any Muslim state other than that of Iran’s military itself.
The US government has despised Hezbollah ever since the U.S. government accused it of being responsible for taking down the Marine barracks in Lebanon under the Regan administration and killed 241 military personnel. While this fact has been burned into the memory of Americans, what has never been once discussed by any media in the U.S. is what atrocities the U.S. committed as it became entangled in Lebanon’s civil war that resulted in this raltively small act of retaliation when viewed in comparison to Reagan’s actions. Moreover, it should be noted that U.S. Marines are in fact a military target, which was much more appropriate of a target than the villages in which the U.S slaughtered over a thousand through naval gunship bombardment with almost all being noncombatants and most being women and children.
The U.S., while seeking never to bring the facts regarding this incident into Americans’ consciousness in order to prevent an examination of what previous U.S. intervention has wrought, stills uses this anti-Hezbollah propaganda in order to demonize it and control a narrative that equates Hezbollah with being a terror group. The fact is that that Marine barracks bombing occurred in 1983 and Hezbollah was not formed until 1985. It was Israel’s invasion and occupation of Lebanon and Israel’s attempt at turning Lebanon into a Gaza-like environment where they could have free reign at slaughtering unarmed civilians every time there was opposition to Israeli incursions, military operations, air strikes, or seizure of additional Palestinian lands that gave rise to Hezbollah. It was this Hezbollah that through guerilla war drove the IDF out of Lebanon.
The marine barracks was not the only target. Actually there were four truck bombs that killed 398 people in revenge attacks for months of Ronald Reagan’s naval gun attacks against Lebanese villages. Those U.S. bombardments killed more than a thousand people, slaughtering Druze and Muslims indiscriminately.
It is true that the technology for the attacks was provided by Iran, but Iran’s involvement was in retaliation for the U.S. arming Saddam with chemical weapons and supporting his attack on Iran that led to the 7-year Iran-Iraq War and the death of over 600,000 Iranians died.
The true crimes and their resulting blowback are documented here in this Daily Kos article:
If this disaster were fully examined as opposed to being another incident that gets buried and part of the U.S. government’s self-imposed amnesia, Americans would understand that we are now still reaping exactly what we have sowed for the last thirty years in the Middle East.
With this disaster the corporate media sprung into containment and distraction mode and masterfully manipulated public opinion to ensure there was no examination of U.S. foreign policy. Reagan was able to leave office without anyone understanding that this bombing led to the U.S. cutting and running from Lebanon. Reagan loved to flex U.S. military muscle but after being bloodied in this barrack bombing it was left to the media to provide sufficient spin to cause all the excrement to be flung as far as possible off of Reagan’s black suit and red tie.
Reagan’s legacy was one of cutting and running. Now if someone like Reagan were to try such nonsense, there would be a Yakhount anti-ship missile taking a battleship down to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. Yet, for all of Reagan deciding to retreat from Lebanon, nobody ever accused him of surrendering. If Obama were to take exactly the same position Reagan took regarding the efficacy of U.S. intervention, he would be accused of being a coward or terrorist by the U.S. corporate media.
As the U.S. media colludes to accuse Hezbollah of being a terrorist organization it also colluded to turn Reagan’s naval bombardment campaign of Lebanon into a “peacekeeping mission” of which the slaughtering of innocents by the hundreds was hidden. You’re not a “Peacekeeper” when you lob 288 16-inch shells a day at villages from battleship New Jersey, and then do that same type of bombardment day after day after day.
This is why classified information needs to be “Wikileaked” and “Snowdenized”. It is lies and propaganda that are needed by government to drag an ignorant citizenry into supporting illegal interventions that give rise to illegal invasions and finally illegal occupations. As is the case or Iraq, U.S. intervention has only led to economic, political and military disaster without having achieved anything of lasting value.
Hezbollah now fights against Sunni extremism. In the future the U.S. will have to recognize that it was Saudi Arabia that stoked the fire of religious sectarianism at the behest of Saudi Royals.
A Global War on Terror could now be successfully prosecuted, after wasting trillions of dollars and over the past decade if the U.S. would work with Iran, Iraq, Syria and Egypt to partition Saudi Arabia and provide weapons and a no-fly zone to the Shiite who are the majority in areas where oil production drilling and production occur in Saudi Arabia.
If you have read previous articles by 5th Estate Media you would see they advocate for waging war on the Saudis who are the real perpetrators of 9/11. Saudi Arabia provided support for al Qaeda in the 9/11 attacks and it was people like Bush who betrayed America and invaded Iraq for his Saudi masters to hide their complicity. This was the biggest and greatest scam ever pulled over Americans eyes. All it took was Bush to blame Saddam instead of the Saudis who bailed out Bush’s Harkin Oil.
Ever since the Saudi Royal Family bought Bush’s failed oil venture, in what was clearly a case of insider trading by Bush who was protected from charges by his father’s presidency and control over the Justice Department, the Saudis have had free run of the American government. Bush and his cronies, like former Secretary of State James Baker, are still allowed to wield power and peddle influence. Baker’s powerful law firm represented the Saudi Royal Family and protected it from civil suit by the family members whose fathers, mothers and children were victims of 9/11. Bush’s Justice Department was the other half of the equation for the Saudis avoiding facing justice.
Once Saudi rule is threatened and Saudi oil is given back to the Shiite who are the majority population in areas where the Saudis get their oil, Saudi funding of ISIS, ISIL, the Levant, al Qaeda, al Nusra and their splinter groups that have continued to metastasize will be brought to an end.
The U.S. ought to begin training a Hezbollah air force and providing it the type of money given to Israel. Hezbollah will surely be more effective in waging a war on Saudi terror than Bush and Obama ever were. And, what help has Israel been in the War on terror? It has supported al Qaeda in Syria while taking tens of billions of dollars and wasted it without providing any assistance to the U.S. in the GWOT. Their money should be cut off yesterday and better spent on supporting Hezbollah.
Let the real War on Terror begin with an attack on the Saudi Royal Family the way the U.S. used to attack Gaddafi. They will get the message very quickly. Let them know that if they value their survival and control of oil in Shiite-dominated areas in Saudi Arabia, they better begin paying to fight the GWOT after having spent the last 20 years fomenting and supporting it.
