[lit-ideas] Re: Jihad Against Hezbollah
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 21:40:53 +0100
> This is too simplistic to be disentangled briefly, if it can be
> disentangled at all: take the Vietcong; they very often 'melted
back
> into the population,' but they were also organized into
military units
> (divisions, brigades, etc.) and they were not 'resistance
fighters' in
> the same sense that the French Resistance was; they were
invaders.
Invaders? I thought most of the Viet Cong came from South
Vietnam.
(As we're dealing in complexities.)
> Would you accept _any_ figure? And why is this 'slim say-so'
to you
I think you mean "why is this 'say-so' 'slim' to you?". I think
the answer may be that the source is simply "a businessman".
Globalsecurity.org says Iran probably gives Hezbollah "financial
assistance and military
assistance worth about $25-50 million". (I didn't check
further.)
The $100 million thing didn't though bother me as much as the
rest of that quotation.
Judy Evans, Cardiff
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