"Is this the end of Hezbollah and Iran control over Lebanon?"

HUGE: The entire Lebanese government just resigned. LEBANON'S entire government has collapsed as officials have fallen. Is this the end of Hezbollah/Iran's control in Lebanon?https://t.co/vjXlXC77TK

— BlueSky (@BlueSky4Ev3r) August 10, 2020

Syria and Lebanon imploding

Tom Rogan writes in the Washington Examiner about the collapsing economies of Syria and Lebanon here.

Lebanon on the brink of becoming a failed state

Rick Moran reports in PJ Media,

Lebanon is on the brink of becoming a failed state -- just another sad reminder of the price Middle Easterners are paying for extremism.

Read more here.

Freedom, Liberty, and Self-determination

CBD writes today in the Ace of Spades blog,

In fact, Western political philosophy relies on a mindset that is rare, and getting rarer. Every idiot Millennial who waxes poetic about a socialist paradise, and every politician who chips away at free speech, and every soccer mom who embraces socialist policies because "it's for the children," erodes the 2,500 year-old bedrock of freedom and liberty and self-determination.

Are we becoming like the rest of the world? America was blissfully free of the sort of violent but pointless protest that much of the world favors. Sure, we have had our share, but for the most part, when Americans protested we had some sort of concrete goal in mind. But that seems to be changing, and the free-floating aggression that we see in most of the world has been embraced by the current crop of violent protesters. But what are they protesting? "We don't like the status quo?" Sounds rather 3rd-worldish to me.

Read more here.

What's our foreign policy in the Middle East?

Who is it we're fighting here? What do they want? We didn't refrain from saying "Nazi" to avoid upsetting German Americans. Bill Whittle goes on to make a point I have often thought about: How did Japan and Germany get to be two of our strongest allies? We utterly defeated them! But then we sent over Douglas MacArthur to dictate a constitution to enable Japanese to become baseball-loving Americans!

We lost the will to win the peace in Iraq, after we finally found the will to win the war! I have said this before, but this is Bill Whittle at his very best! The Koran tells them to hate us and kill us, but over a billion Muslims are ignoring that advice from the Koran. The Koran is a manual of conquest and slavery.

Oh yeah, and if ISIS is the junior varsity, what is the Obama Administration?



Thanks to Scott Ott

Sunnis versus Shiites

Saudia Arabia is sending $3 billion to Lebanon to bolster the government's military. Iran funds Hezbollah, presently the most viable military group in Lebanon. Hezbollah is Shiite Muslim, Saudi Arabia is Sunni Muslim.