A Preemeditated War--Going Back to 2005

Good Morning. Two new items today.

• On July 10, 2006, two days before the Hezbollah caputure of Israeli soldiers and the Israeli assault on lebanon, the Wall Street Journal coincidentally ran a front-page analysis of Hezbollah's evolution into a polkitical force in lebanon. A third of the way into the article, in a paragraph describing the attacks on Hamas in Gaza, the reader comes across this curious line: “[W]orried that Hezbollah’s armed wing might attack too, the Israeli military has issued a high-level alert along its northern border with Lebanon.” From there, Pierre connects dots all the way back to May 2005 to conclude that the ongoing war was premeditated (and put on hold by the Hariri assassination), and that the end game this time is no different than in 1982: installing a pro-Israel president in Lebanon, whose name happens to be Michel Aoun, his current alliance with Hezbollah notwithstanding. See the full article here...
  

• Today's edition of Candide's Recommendations is a bit long, but worth the browse: The war's latest "occupation" euphemisms; how America's neo-cons, out of targets to radicalize, are going after Cuba now that Castro is on his seventeenth death bed; how Marines are deflecting attention from the Haditha massacre in Iraq by suing... John Murtha (!); how Tony Blair has become Britain's Bush, bumblings and idiocy included; and what bloggers are reporting on a Qana conspiracy theory, Dick Cheney's war on civil liberties and cats that look like Hitler. All in Candide's Recommendations...

As always, Ecrasez l'infame! and thanks for reading.pt