Comments on: A US Military Base In Lebanon? http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/10/17/a-us-military-base-in-lebanon/ Blogging Lebanese politics, business and society since 2005 Wed, 23 May 2012 14:09:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: leo http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/10/17/a-us-military-base-in-lebanon/#comment-8156 leo Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:17:14 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/10/17/a-us-military-base-in-lebanon/#comment-8156 With all this argument when this story first appeared I wonder who is luckier, the one who found it first or the one who never heard of it. With all this argument when this story first appeared I wonder who is luckier, the one who found it first or the one who never heard of it.

]]> By: Rami http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/10/17/a-us-military-base-in-lebanon/#comment-8155 Rami Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:00:52 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/10/17/a-us-military-base-in-lebanon/#comment-8155 How can you compare a Macdonald’s food chain in Tripoli to an American Military Base, with American troops all over the place? Are you that Blind , don't you see what is happening in Iraq? And Besides, You don’t represent the Sunni View, so stop thinking that you do. How can you compare a Macdonald’s food chain in Tripoli to an American Military Base, with American troops all over the place? Are you that Blind , don’t you see what is happening in Iraq?

And Besides, You don’t represent the Sunni View, so stop thinking that you do.

]]> By: Louis-Noel Harfouche http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/10/17/a-us-military-base-in-lebanon/#comment-8154 Louis-Noel Harfouche Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:22:53 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/10/17/a-us-military-base-in-lebanon/#comment-8154 "Et pourquoi pas ya Sourayya?" We have run the gamut, Syrian bases, Palestinian, Iranian, Israeli, Syrian, (ilnééha 'Syrian'?), eh, Syrian... must we go on? How about a Lebanese base for a change? “Et pourquoi pas ya Sourayya?” We have run the gamut, Syrian bases, Palestinian, Iranian, Israeli, Syrian, (ilnééha ‘Syrian’?), eh, Syrian… must we go on?
How about a Lebanese base for a change?

]]> By: Assafir: Washington Officially Asks Lebanon To Be Military Base | The Beirut Spring, a Lebanese Blog http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/10/17/a-us-military-base-in-lebanon/#comment-8153 Assafir: Washington Officially Asks Lebanon To Be Military Base | The Beirut Spring, a Lebanese Blog Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:56:47 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/10/17/a-us-military-base-in-lebanon/#comment-8153 [...] Assafir: Washington Officially Asks Lebanon To Be Military Base   As if the pro-Hezbollah, anti-American daily read my post yesterday. In a typical Assafir fashion, they “expose the conspiracy’s details” in their leading story. [...] [...] Assafir: Washington Officially Asks Lebanon To Be Military Base   As if the pro-Hezbollah, anti-American daily read my post yesterday. In a typical Assafir fashion, they “expose the conspiracy’s details” in their leading story. [...]

]]> By: Joe http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/10/17/a-us-military-base-in-lebanon/#comment-8152 Joe Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:23:11 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/10/17/a-us-military-base-in-lebanon/#comment-8152 Well let's hope it is a true story for it will be of great benefit for Lebanon. Look at all countries that host American military bases and how they enjoy stability, something that we're yearning for in Lebanon. Folks, deal with it. America is in the ME to stay and neither Hezbolla nor Iran are a match. Better get with the program and try and benefit from this constructive relationship. What's the alternative? The mullah's or the tyrant/thieve of Damascus? Well let’s hope it is a true story for it will be of great benefit for Lebanon. Look at all countries that host American military bases and how they enjoy stability, something that we’re yearning for in Lebanon.

Folks, deal with it. America is in the ME to stay and neither Hezbolla nor Iran are a match. Better get with the program and try and benefit from this constructive relationship. What’s the alternative? The mullah’s or the tyrant/thieve of Damascus?

]]> By: Karl Swanson http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/10/17/a-us-military-base-in-lebanon/#comment-8151 Karl Swanson Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:59:00 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/10/17/a-us-military-base-in-lebanon/#comment-8151 A must read article here from Franklin Lamb on the proposed air base http://www.counterpunch.org/lamb05302007.html The idea isn't that far fetched, have also read recently that adm william fallon was "selling" the idea to lebanese officals in july. I think the selling point had some to do with the nahr al bared siege and the need for a strategic "NATO" base in lebanon. I think the LF website might have picked up the story from debka file http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4659 But i'd take anything anyone gets from debka file with a few grains of salt. A must read article here from Franklin Lamb on the proposed air base http://www.counterpunch.org/lamb05302007.html
The idea isn’t that far fetched, have also read recently that adm william fallon was “selling” the idea to lebanese officals in july. I think the selling point had some to do with the nahr al bared siege and the need for a strategic “NATO” base in lebanon. I think the LF website might have picked up the story from debka file

http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4659
But i’d take anything anyone gets from debka file with a few grains of salt.

]]> By: Jad Aoun http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/10/17/a-us-military-base-in-lebanon/#comment-8150 Jad Aoun Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:41:58 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/10/17/a-us-military-base-in-lebanon/#comment-8150 This story keeps popping up every now and then. I read it on Debka Files about three years ago. This story keeps popping up every now and then. I read it on Debka Files about three years ago.

]]> By: GK http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/10/17/a-us-military-base-in-lebanon/#comment-8149 GK Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:37:25 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/10/17/a-us-military-base-in-lebanon/#comment-8149 No need to have a base in Lebanon (that could be bombed easily) when you have aircraft carrier in a safe distance! Wake up guys and use your logic. The Syrian regime is so bad that it does not know how to lie!!! First, the Israeli airplanes were prevented by our defense systems from bombing anything (one of the Syrian ministers) then the place bombed is an "unused under construction related to the military building" (Bashar's interview with the BBC) and later "Israel hit nuclear facilities" (the Syrian Ambassador in the UN). I think the Ambassador and his family will disappear or will commit suicide with 3 shots in the head! No need to have a base in Lebanon (that could be bombed easily) when you have aircraft carrier in a safe distance! Wake up guys and use your logic.

The Syrian regime is so bad that it does not know how to lie!!! First, the Israeli airplanes were prevented by our defense systems from bombing anything (one of the Syrian ministers) then the place bombed is an “unused under construction related to the military building” (Bashar’s interview with the BBC) and later “Israel hit nuclear facilities” (the Syrian Ambassador in the UN). I think the Ambassador and his family will disappear or will commit suicide with 3 shots in the head!

]]> By: anthem boy http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/10/17/a-us-military-base-in-lebanon/#comment-8148 anthem boy Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:27:53 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/10/17/a-us-military-base-in-lebanon/#comment-8148 did anyone see or read the comment a syrian official made where he admitted that israel had bombed a syrian nuke site??? did anyone see or read the comment a syrian official made where he admitted that israel had bombed a syrian nuke site???

]]> By: Super Dude http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/10/17/a-us-military-base-in-lebanon/#comment-8147 Super Dude Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:57:58 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/10/17/a-us-military-base-in-lebanon/#comment-8147 Right on B.V. People in the Middle East have more paranoid fantasies than Stephen King on crack. (To borrow a phrase from the great Jimmy James). Right on B.V.

People in the Middle East have more paranoid fantasies than Stephen King on crack. (To borrow a phrase from the great Jimmy James).

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