This is so delusional and r-slurred it makes John Bolton look like a stable genius in comparison: Now that Nasrallah is dead, a president will be elected and it will solve everything.
The only times that Lebanon has barely functioned as a state is when there was consensus among the Christians, Shi'a, Sunnis, and Druze.
There's only been a few guys stupid enough to think they could "win" and dominate the whole country. They got killed once they seemed to be anywhere near to achieving that.
It's kind of hard to build up a functioning bureaucracy while everyone is cowering in bomb shelters.
People don't like to cooperate with American plans while American bombs are landing on them.
The President of Lebanon has never had the power to fix the country's real problems. In fact the constitution is set up to make sure they can't. You're going to have to keep dealing with Nabih Berri.
They desperately need lots of money. Nobody is going to lend money to them while they're getting bombed and everything will just get immediately destroyed.
I cannot emphasize this enough: Syria and Hezbollah are still capable of killing anyone in Beirut they want to. They may feel entitled to carry out assassinations given what has happened lately.
The only thing I'm wondering is if this is male autism like the "Whiz Kids" of the Vietnam War or vapid female r-sluration where midwit women from rich east coast families have been promoted up through academia and think that means they actually know what the frick they're talking about.
There's a lot of people making decisions about this stuff who apparently have no idea that exactly what they're planning to do has been tried before and it didn't work. Or maybe they know and they just don't give a shit because it's never hurt the job prospects of neocons or R2P tards that they totally failed at everything and just ended up killing lots of people.
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the us has such a great track record when it comes to installing "leaders"
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We really are terrible. I think it's failing to understand that you don't want a puppet. You want somebody there on the ground who knows what's going on. You delegate power to him, and sometimes you disagree about things but you have common interests. Karzai the was worst of both worlds. He was really ineffective and weak but also opposed us half the time.
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i think a democracy trying to go out and play other countries like they are pawns doesn't actually understand the meaning of democracy. total platitude by this point.
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To be fair, the Shah of Iran had a great
head of hair
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The US did not actually put him into power. You read what the CIA guys involved in TPAJAX said about him and it was some of the most scathing insults I've ever seen. Especially the way they talked about how his sister was the one to deal with because she wore the pants in the family. (An interesting character btw: Vain, greedy, scheming, clever, charismatic. Reminds me of somebody I used to know.)
The US used him to put Gen. Zahedi into power. But it turned out our guys underestimated him. In a couple years he made moves behind the scenes and ended up overthrowing Zahedi and making himself dictator. That coup and the events around it were like 90% driven by Iranians.
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#Our_Girl
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So much just because I like a forceful woman. There's this absolutely r-slurred idea in our media that Iranian women are all meek little creatures who are afraid to speak up. Neighbor please.
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