[lit-ideas] Re: Jihad Against Hezbollah
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 17:15:27 -0400
Even $100 million isn't a drop in the bucket compared to the multiple
billions the U.S. gives Israel. It's interesting how Israel with its
military might, accepting billions from the U.S., is seen as little Israel,
and Hezbollah, a militia armed with, the Israelis thought, little more than
rocks, accepting multiple millions from the Iranians, is seen as the
aggressor. Stan, any ideas?
Anybody see the movie Syriana? If so, any thoughts?
> [Original Message]
> From: Judith Evans <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 8/6/2006 4:40:54 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Jihad Against Hezbollah
>
> > 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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