Payback for Uncle Sam

As Operation Peace for Galilee, Part II continues into its third exciting day, the eventual outcome is already becoming evident. Israel’s combined military forces, despite some retaliatory action from either Hezbollah or the so-called Lebanese Army, is having a nearly unopposed carte-blanche control of the entire military theatre: by land, sea, and air. The Lebanese Air Force, in you want to call their small squadrons of outdated fighter aircraft that, was virtually incapacitated on Day One of this event. And the knocking out of several key bridges all over Lebanon, including those leading to their eastern neighbor, Syria, has eliminated the possibility of any large Syrian ground or armored forces coming to the rescue like the Calvary used to do in an old American Western movie. All that’s left, is Hezbollah’s remaining missile launching sites, as mobile as they still can be considering new ‘logistical factors’ now in place; thanks to the IAF.

While many concerned countries will undoubtedly point fingers at Israel for being aggressors once again, despite the quite obvious fact of who started this new conflict; one nation, and it’s leader, is not surprisingly vocal about Israel’s vendetta against Sheikh Hassan Harshallah and his Hezbollah Friendship Club. And unless you are either hopelessly retarded, or one of those people who prefer those boringly silly sitcom movies over watching all these Breaking News broadcasts; it doesn’t take much intelligence to figure out which country, and leader, I am referring to.

Ok, even they are asking Israel to ’show restraint’ in their long overdue cleanup campaign, which has been put on the back burner for far too long. It took a very shocking, and embarrassing incident to push Israel over the line, especially while being involved with spraying for vermin with the Raid can in their southern parameters, also following a similar incident, also involving deaths and kidnappings of IDF soldiers. The truth is, the nation this article is talking about (all right you finally guessed it, the USA) and most of its leadership and military brass are smiling like Sylvester-type pussy cats who just swallowed a very tasty “Tweety-Pie” canary.

Indeed, there are limits as to how far this clean up and fumigation operation will be allowed to go; to ensure that other possible elements won’t decide to join the party. But this one country, whose leader recently labeled the Hezbollah and Sheikh Narshrallah as no less a threat to the world than Al Qaeda and Usama bin Ladin, has a long festering score to settle with them, as well as with their predecessors, the Shiite composed Amal Militia. This chancre sore has been there since 1982, when a large number of U.S. Marines were killed when their barracks were blown up by a car bomb driven by suicide bombers belonging to those aforementioned organizations. Other incidents, including skyjackings, and kidnappings (and related killings) of American diplomats and personnel, going back to Lebanon’s 1976-80 civil war also have required a long over due ‘pay-back’ as well. Repeated comments by the American President that Hezbollah would have to be dealt with sooner or later, has now come to pass, relieving this country of having to do this task themselves (give us a break, guys, we still a bit more fumigation work to do in other places, like Afghanistan and Iraq).

If another ‘concerned country’ decides to find a way to become part of the fracas going on in Lebanon, and both of these countries (Syria and Iran) are high on the list of ‘next in line’ candidates for ‘bug spraying’, then Israel might be also have to be involved in these tasks, to the obvious appreciation of Uncle Sam as well. As everyone knows, even the best ‘fumigations’ are only guaranteed for six months to a year. But for a while, anyway, there will be fewer cock roaches to put up with: at least in Israel’s own back yard.

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