Friday, July 21, 2006
This morning's news was full of teary calls for Isreal to stop bombing "Lebanese" civilians.
I use the quotes on "Lebanese" because these are not Lebanese civilians, and the Arab world is in the process of shitting on another Western gift, the Treaty of Westphalia.
What you actually have right now in the area called Lebanon is two countries. "Hezbollahstan" (for want of a better name) and "Legacy Lebanon".
Hezbollahstan is currently engaged in a genocidal total war against Israel, and Israel is responding appropriately.
You disagree? Well, Hezbollah is the monopoly force in Hezbollahstan. Hezbollahstan is refusing to let its citizens leave (shades of, oh, East Germany up 'til about 1989). Hezbollahstan invaded Israel and kidnapped Israeli soldiers. Hezbollahstan's most-cherished goal is the destruction of Israel.
Of course, when Hezbollahstan gets in trouble, it uses the principles established in the Treaty of Westphalia to make it look like *all* of geographical area called "Lebanon" must pay for the trouble it started unilaterally.
Do you see it? A de-facto nation can start a genocidal war, hold its citizens inside its borders, and yet call upon the international to save it - in the name of the country it split from - when things start going badly wrong.
And all the dim bulbs at the UN and in the US mainstream media immediately buy this. Well, in all fariness, the UN may simply have been bought. The US mainstream media is simply a collection of dim bulb snobs.
Let's accept that the Arab world has shat on and abrogated an international order that worked for about 350 years, get past this, and deal with the reality.
Let's establish a new principle in international law: If a group is able to establish a monopoly of force in a given geographical area, then a new nation has come into being, with the rights *and* responsibilities of a nation.
Including the responsibility to accept its beating if it decides to wage unprovoked war on its neighbor.
It'd be chaos for a while, as we play whack-a-mole on all the wannabes, but we'd eventually come to something like stability.
I nominate Hezbollahstan as the first mole to be whacked.
UPDATE: Legacy Lebanon volunteers to support Hezbollahstan! Man! You couldn't write this stuff, if it was fiction.
UPDATE: Mwuuuhahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Man! You couldn't write this stuff, if it was fiction.
UPDATE: OK! I'm late to the party. Sorry! Still, I'm the first to mention whack-a-mole. Bow to me!
I use the quotes on "Lebanese" because these are not Lebanese civilians, and the Arab world is in the process of shitting on another Western gift, the Treaty of Westphalia.
What you actually have right now in the area called Lebanon is two countries. "Hezbollahstan" (for want of a better name) and "Legacy Lebanon".
Hezbollahstan is currently engaged in a genocidal total war against Israel, and Israel is responding appropriately.
You disagree? Well, Hezbollah is the monopoly force in Hezbollahstan. Hezbollahstan is refusing to let its citizens leave (shades of, oh, East Germany up 'til about 1989). Hezbollahstan invaded Israel and kidnapped Israeli soldiers. Hezbollahstan's most-cherished goal is the destruction of Israel.
Of course, when Hezbollahstan gets in trouble, it uses the principles established in the Treaty of Westphalia to make it look like *all* of geographical area called "Lebanon" must pay for the trouble it started unilaterally.
Do you see it? A de-facto nation can start a genocidal war, hold its citizens inside its borders, and yet call upon the international to save it - in the name of the country it split from - when things start going badly wrong.
And all the dim bulbs at the UN and in the US mainstream media immediately buy this. Well, in all fariness, the UN may simply have been bought. The US mainstream media is simply a collection of dim bulb snobs.
Let's accept that the Arab world has shat on and abrogated an international order that worked for about 350 years, get past this, and deal with the reality.
Let's establish a new principle in international law: If a group is able to establish a monopoly of force in a given geographical area, then a new nation has come into being, with the rights *and* responsibilities of a nation.
Including the responsibility to accept its beating if it decides to wage unprovoked war on its neighbor.
It'd be chaos for a while, as we play whack-a-mole on all the wannabes, but we'd eventually come to something like stability.
I nominate Hezbollahstan as the first mole to be whacked.
UPDATE: Legacy Lebanon volunteers to support Hezbollahstan! Man! You couldn't write this stuff, if it was fiction.
UPDATE: Mwuuuhahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Man! You couldn't write this stuff, if it was fiction.
UPDATE: OK! I'm late to the party. Sorry! Still, I'm the first to mention whack-a-mole. Bow to me!
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