US government's Ignorance and Lack of Spine

Fact: The United States government lists Hezbollah as a terrorist organization which is second only to Al-Qaeda in the number of Americans it has killed over a decades-old career in anti-Western terrorism.

Fact: Hezbollah is now a full-fledged member of the Lebanese government, and Hezbollah has a veto power over any decisions of the Lebanese government.

Question: How come the US government still recognizes the Lebanese government and keeps an embassy in Beirut?

Answer: Because the US government - especially "freedom-lover" Bush - is a spineless government whose history of foreign policy is replete with idiotic alliances, short-term deals, and utter failures.

Why? Because most US bureaucrats, politicians and think-tank analysts are total ignoramuses when it comes to engaging the world on realistic and well-founded terms. We have a government of the morons, by the morons, and for the morons. I have no idea who to vote for in November.

Barack Obama will talk and kiss ass to any jerk out there, while McCain has said (at least on Lebanon) that he will continue the Bush administration's moronic alliance with traditionalists and warlords in the Lebanese political establishment - including supporters of Al-Qaeda like Hariri and Siniora, and criminals of war like Samir Geagea - just to "stand up" to Hezbollah, even though most of these people are in fact latent strategic allies with Hezbollah, playing good guy-bad guy with the ignorant Americans of State Dept. Meanwhile, the US refuses to arm the Lebanese army because "it might fall into the hands of Hezbollah". It is as though the US "wants" Lebanon to fall into Hezbollah's hands, like it appeared to "want" the Taliban to take over Afghanistan in the 1980s.

Wow! What a strategy! The US has not learned anything from its former experiments: It supported Saddam to counter Khomeini, then had a problem on its hands. It supported Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan to stand up to Russia, then had the Taliban to deal with. This is truly the policy of the illiterate whore preaching virtue.

Hanibaal