Survival Versus Doom

PROPOSED LAW WOULD ALLOW GOV’T TO INDEFINITELY DETAIN U.S. CITIZENS

FAR FROM WINDING DOWN, GUANTANAMO IS EXPANDING

WHITE HOUSE FEARS U.S. OFFICIALS COULD BE TRIED UNDER WAR CRIMES ACT - SEEKS SHIELD FROM PROSECUTION

“What if [the Lebanese] government called for a million marchers, mostly women and children, to head toward the Lebanese-Israeli frontier, waving palm branches and singing songs?” –William S. Lind

And a Syrian Border Crossing (Link)

Headlines from Democracy Now today:

Israel Bombs Infrastructure, Relief Trucks, Ambulance

Nearly One-Third of Lebanese Victims Are Children according to UNICEF Director for Emergency Programs Daniel Toole

Israel Admits To Dropping Cluster Bombs

Israeli Attacks Precipitate Environmental Crisis

Hezbollah Fires 110 Rockets Into Israel

Al-Qaeda Urges Attacks Against Israel, Allies

President Bush Dismisses Ceasefire Calls, Blames Iran

FEROCITY OF HEZBOLLAH COMES AS A SURPRISE

HEZBOLLAH SAYS ISRAELI RESPONSE A SURPRISE
(Headline links from antiwar.com)

More headline links from Antiwar.com:
ISRAEL VOWS “SEVERE MEASURES”
ISRAEL RULES OUT RAPID TRUCE AS WARPLANES BOMB BEIRUT
KOFI ANNAN: DEADLY HIT ON UN BASE “DELIBERATE”
ISRAEL’S WAR WITH HEZBOLLAH PART OF WIDER US PLAN

Amnesty International report released today: “Jordan appears to be a central hub in a global complex of secret detention centers operated by the US in coordination with foreign intelligence agencies….It is into this complex that suspects ‘disappear’ — and are held for interrogation indefinitely, outside any legal or administrative process.” AI reports that detainees are tortured to extract forced “confessions,” and that these have led to secret executions.

Billmon quotes a saying: “Amateurs talk strategy; professionals talk logistics.” He and Col. Pat Lang, a former intelligence officer, explain how and why war with Iran could result in the loss of the 140,000 man American army in Iraq. However, according to Doomer pundit Sivanna, this loss would not be inevitable. “The alternative would be nuclear war. Heh heh heh.”

On Capitol Hill, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution endorsing Israel’s military attack. The House is expected to approve a similar resolution.

   ”Way to go, Cheney, Rove, and Company!
   ”You’re ahead of me. There is just so much opposition –in the military and elsewhere– to making war on Iran, I didn’t see how you could do it. Now it’s so obvious you make it seem easy. Only an antisemite would object to Israel defending itself.
   ”World War I was triggered by the killing of one man. Who would have imagined that World War III might be triggered by the ransoming of a single soldier?
   ”Of course we still have a long way to go. But Israel probably wants that war almost as much as Dick Cheney does. And fire spreads.
   ”How hard can it be to “prove” that Iran is backing Hezbollah?”

Israel bombs Beirut Intl airport
Okays Massive Strikes on Lebanon

Jorge Hirsch argues that it is. “And for excellent reasons. Heh heh heh.” according to Doomer pundit Sivanna.

Surrender
In War On Terror?
by Lex Luthor

In 2001, I pulled out all stops to support war on Afghanistan because going after Osama bin Laden “multilaterally and legalistically” would be “doomed” to failure, and would set a “worrisome precedent.” But let there be no mistake: Doomers give a 21-gun salute to the closing of the CIA’s “bin Laden unit,” and the apparent abandonment by the Administration of the elimination of bin Laden as what George Bush called “our number one priority.” Read the rest of this entry »

Noam Shalit, father of the Israeli prisoner-hostage. Read why in Ha’aretz, Israel’s leading newspaper.