Now it's Lebanon that is blowing up. We have grown accustomed to the carnage in Syria, and the fighting and dying in Egypt has blown up this week as well. Today, however, there is also a major terror bombing in Lebanon. In a strange twist, the target of the terror bombing is Hezbollah, itself a major terrorist organization. The al Qaeda affiliated Sunni terrorists in Syria are angry that Hezbollah has allied itself with the Assad forces and has sent hundreds if not thousands of fighters to the front lines in Syria. As a result, these terrorists set off a large car bomb in a section of Beirut which is the heart of support for Hezbollah. As of now, 24 have been reported dead with over 200 wounded, but the figures are preliminary and will surely change.
The sad truth is that it will not take all that much to reignite the Lebanese civil war of a few decades ago. Clearly, what the Middle East does not need is a new front in the Sunni-Shia fighting.
I wonder how long it will be before John Kerry comes to the microphones to tell us how Islam is a religion of peace and that what happened today in Beirut is the work of a few bad people. Gee, maybe it is the same few bad people who have now killed 120,000 and wounded over half a million in Syria. (That, of course, ignores the two million refugees.) Those bad people sure are busy.
Can't the Obama administration just for once admit that a big chunk of the Islamic world consists of militants who want to destroy all those who do not follow their particular strain of Islam? Maybe once the administration acknowledges that there are tens of millions who, for lack of a better phrase, want us dead, America will be better able to deal with the threat.
The sad truth is that it will not take all that much to reignite the Lebanese civil war of a few decades ago. Clearly, what the Middle East does not need is a new front in the Sunni-Shia fighting.
I wonder how long it will be before John Kerry comes to the microphones to tell us how Islam is a religion of peace and that what happened today in Beirut is the work of a few bad people. Gee, maybe it is the same few bad people who have now killed 120,000 and wounded over half a million in Syria. (That, of course, ignores the two million refugees.) Those bad people sure are busy.
Can't the Obama administration just for once admit that a big chunk of the Islamic world consists of militants who want to destroy all those who do not follow their particular strain of Islam? Maybe once the administration acknowledges that there are tens of millions who, for lack of a better phrase, want us dead, America will be better able to deal with the threat.
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