Musings of a Dumb Ass

Musings of a Dumb Ass.... Who won? Who lost? The latest Middle East war between Israel and whom ever is one that came and went in the strangest way. The beginning was standard. Whatever caused it will be left behind in the examination by historians for a long time. Instead the way it was run had the footprints of the USA so plainly imprinted that the Arab and for that matter the Islamic and world reaction was one of disbelief at the attitude and instruction of the world's strongest superpower to it's spoiled child Israel. Israel done to Lebanon what we've done to Iraq. Tear up an incredible amount of real estate, destroy the governmental structure, put it's citizens that are still alive under the stars with no roofs over their heads, obliterate the economy, and expect the world to rejoice at what they've done, then claim victory while looking across at the devastation they wreaked believing that's proof they won. They forgot a couple of things. First, they forgot about the hearts and minds of those they believed they defeated. As they crawled out of the rubble, almost to a soul, the hatred for Israel was many fold stronger and the respect for Hezbollah was absolute. As Israel looked over the smoky remains that used to be Lebanon and claimed victory, the ones looking back at them say that Israel couldn't do them in, even with all their bombs, tanks and planes, and they were prepared to fight again. Hardly a victory for Israel. In fact many see it as a defeat for them. I see it as an open door to much worse than we've seen. The time is ripe for organization of the Islamic states like we cannot imagine. If this should happen, Opec would probably be the first to wreak havoc on us by simply shutting off the oil spicket. That would destroy our already limping economy. After that, there are two possibles. One, the Muslim countries across the globe could have a call to arms, which would be an awesome force, but added to that the dedication of the Muslim ready to die for their cause would make such a military force fearsome beyond what we understand at this time in our history. If they're smart, they'll just fund and support a terroristic attack schedule on us on our on turf. We've already shown we can't stand that kind of heat. A few dams blown and a couple of attacks on our food and water supply and maybe throw in a couple of planes crashed into the stands of some of the football bowl games and we would be unable to function with any sanity and they will have won without doing much collateral damage. They would have the pleasure of watching us implode to oblivion on our own as we would surely do, because we literally have no defense against any of those things simply because there IS NO defense to be had in preventing any of them. There is little hope that we will look at any of these problems in the way they possibly could be dealt with and settled, instead look for us to beat the war drums at Iran, and after the way we've handled ourselves so far, probably attack them too which will set off World War 3. This will be the saddest time to be an observer, and I truly hope I'm dead wrong about everything. Time will tell..........