The Third one.

I don’t think this strategy will ultimately serve the purpose that the U.S intends it to serve. Conventional warfare and the weapons that fuel them will not counter the unconventional means of gaining influence used by the Islamic Republic. Iran is also ahead in its ideological fight against secularism, and this money should be spent towards countering that influence in the region. But I guess you can argue that if these countries don’t get weapons from the U.S, they’ll just seek them elsewhere.

I’am just saying
(not with any side, but I am against the policy of war for oil in the region)

History is repeating itself,

The Shah of Iran was a CIA agent / once toppled , CIA needed to fight the new Islamic revolution with the help of Arab Regimes who were threatened by this Islamic uprising in Iran that nationalized all the oil and military industries in that country, so they installed their CIA agent Saddam and armed him and drove him to a useless war with Iran that lead to the destruction of his people afterwards and you can see the consequences today, in the same time they were indirectly supporting Iran with weapons through indirect channels.

Now , the Americans are using the same strategy, they are arming the Arab regimes for the same false purposes. But if a war is to be ignited by the USA , Nobody knows this time what will happen to the region. Because the Arab neutrals as they call them are in collision with the majority of their people’s strategic policies in the region, so they might be toppled if a war brakes in the Region with a collation against Syria Iran and Hezbollah and Hamas.

If the Americans are so into peace as they falsely claim, one example , Why don’t they arm the Lebanese army or use this money for peace and security in the region ? Instead they are refusing the dialogue in Lebanon and now they arming the Arab Regimes against Iran and Israel with 30 billion dollars against Hezbollah and Syria instead ? Don’t you see anything wrong with this picture? They are trying to divide the region and bring Chaos and war on every Arab and Muslim country for the last drop of Oil in the Region. This is why you see this excessive arming of the neutral Arab regimes to also prevent uprising in case of a war scenario.

And we still support the American policy in the region. Do you honestly think that they care about your democracy and your future, well , ask the Iraq people and they will give a dam NO answer///////////

i just read that russia sold or is selling iran 250 new jet fighters. i dont really think that matters caise a US aircraft carrier carries 100 by itself. just like the argument states by trying to outspend iran. if afghanistan/ pakistan and iraq can get their acts together, iran will be surrounded. the only trouble makers in the ME are iran and syria, which is supporting all the individual trouble makers (hamas/hez/ansur al sunna/ AQ/ fateh al islam/ islamic jihad/ etc). but i do think that just going the “outspending” way wont work. the free world has got to help other developing or struggling democracies in the area. that means even accepting help from the west (and israel). i think israel can be the biggest help to the ME. economically, politically, militarily. and the arab nations could help israel as well. there would be such a boom in the ME (and i dont mean boom as in bomb) if everyone could get past the centuries (millenia) old issues that continue to divide you all. look at europe after WWII or japan and the US after WWII, united. just think if israel and the arab world did the same. with all the oil and other natural resources, money and people would be flocking to the region. you can keep digging up the past, but all you get is dirty.

Seniora is good in talking.
Instead, he could do. Peace with Israel,
for example.

Hany I don’t know where you got your sources, probably from another arab newspaper or 3abd el nassir himself. The CIA agents theory is the harry poter of the 70’s and 80’s. USA making wars in the Middle east just to get the last drop of oil in the region is another stupid theory that arabs and muslim like to hide behind to justify their fanatisme. Amrika al chaytanou l akbar does not scare little kids anymore, so dont try to scare the grownups on this blog.
If they played the M Eastern leaders for the past 50 years, there is one and only one reason behind this: Arabs are puppets for rent, its in their blood and long nose.
If there is war in the region, don’t go blaming the US as usual, blame yourfukinselves for being weak and uncivilized.
History is indeed repeating itself, but the arabs missed all the past classes and they still haven’t learned the lesson!!!

Sanioura better shut up, he’s a nobody to criticize the american decisions. American airplanes full of weapon saved his ass in nahr el bared.
30 billion $ is the response to hassouna stating that his missiles can reach Tel Aviv!
USA beated the great Soviet Union, I wonder how many months those Iranian punks can hold still.

I don’t get all the hubub about this issue.

Sovereign states are allowed to buy weapons for their military. Specially if they feel threatened.

And I like how people discussing this are focusing on Israel getting the military aid, but no one seems to mention that Egypt and Saudi Arabia are too. That kinda destroys Saniora’s whiney logic. He talks about needing a strong state and a strong Lebanese Army to root out terrorists like Nahr Al Bared. Then he complains when other countries want to strengthen their own military for similar purposes.

And I’m sick and tired of people equating a state (which has every right to buy weapons for its military) to an illegal militia (Hezbollah) which has no right to own or buy weapons (per various UN resolutions, the Taef accord, and its very status as a non-governmental institution).

So those not willing to come under Hizbollah/Syrian/Iranian influence should NOT respond to their funding moves? http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/07/21/mobilisation-in-israel-over-iran-syria-deal/

How does that make sense?

Does the Iranian/Syrian/Hizbollah side want peace?

How would the same money be spent credibly and effectively on peace?

And who is saying that money won’t be spent on peace? Money spent on defense as well is simply prudent in the face of hostility. Overt hostility.

Even History you want to Forge ,

I get my sources from the west , but offcouse not from CNN and FOX .

Hani, please try harder when you look to sources: see if they cross-check and reflect what facts you can verify.

Hani:

Wikipedia is no longer accepted as a valid source for information in American schools. Why? Because in some articles many so-called “expert” contributors are nothing but individuals with an agenda and some referenced articles are not much more than the claims of professors who learned how teach, but forgot how to learn — the likes of bigots, propagandists and conspiracy theorists. Likewise with many other media sources.

I may have read the very same source of information as it sounds familiar. However, there is a difference between you and me. I could pick out the discrepancies in the claims and researched further; you are merely picking your nose.

time for the “cant we all just get along??”.

Anthem boy:

Any piece of trash that is anti-American suits Sani to a T.

The problems in the Middle East are deeper than you seem to understand. For example, while many western democracies have put laws into place against hate crimes, http://www.usdoj.gov/crs/pubs/htecrm.htm , many of the laws of Middle Eastern countries actually enforce divisions of creed, ethnicity or gender. Where governments or groups enforce oppressive laws, freedom is elusive.

Any American sale of arms contract specifies that the equipment is to be used for defense purposes only – and defense certainly includes response to any militant group who attacks the military or civilians of a state. Russian and Chinese arms contracts…well, they don’t really care whose mother you shoot, just bank wire the money. Bottom line: Every state is armed, read the labels.

“And I like how people discussing this are focusing on Israel getting the military aid, but no one seems to mention that Egypt and Saudi Arabia are too.”

Not just that, but the people complaining about these countries recieving aid weren’t making the same fuss last year, or the year before, or any of the past 30 or so years that this has been going on.

Hi!
Mustafa thank you for such an interesting and “provoke” blogs.
And now about ths blog and comments. Our region is really a tangle of collisions. The interests of superpowers, which are trying to separate in perpose of easy using. The weakness of our ustable goverments. Goverments , which are not strong enouph to achive the goals they manifest. and our people, which are living in atmosp- here of brainwashing and prefere to blaim the outer enemy in all their problems. This collisions are open the door for populist leaders without any longterm programs.
And i think that the biggest problem of our region is the luck of brave politishians who can tell us a truth and fight for it. To tell us that the stability and peace is the main condition for prosperity in our countries. To tell us that all nations here can and must leave in peace, but we had to work hard for these.
Work hard this is what our leaders affraid off. Much easer to say that Arabs want to destroy us, or that Israel is a reason of all arab problems. Very goodworking explanation of their failures.