Its one big macho game!

There was a pundit on NPR today and he was saying that Syria is behind the Hizballah attacks on Israel. He said that Syria wants to be a world player and in order to do this, Assad needs Bush to notice him. The pundit said that Bush's candid statements about Kofi Annan getting in there and stopping this violence are not accordance with the fact that everyone in the Middle East knows who controls the world's political stage. George W. Bush, that's who! No one cares about the UN or Annan, they are toothless old lions. It's insulting to an Arab leader to have to use Annan to mediate a conflict, because it means the US doesn't think the leader's important. Everything is about the US. Really, it's flattering that they are so obsessed with us. These are alpha males, jockying for position, just as they've done for centuries. This is natural selection folks. Only the strong will survive. The Israelis have cut off Hizballah's supply lines and the civilians are suffering horribly. This is how it always ends when an Arab militia engages with Israel. There is no way that you can look at Hizballah as even a small player. They just don't matter. The Arabs are experts at self delusion. It's like the movie, Groundhog Day, they are doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over. They seem to think that the thousandth try will be the lucky one. The lesson to be learned. Do not fuck with the US or its allies in the Middle East. If you do, we will fuck you up, depose your leader and make your civilian population suffer. Afterward you can tell the world how much you are the victims of US aggression and they can commiserate with you, but there is nothing that they can do to stop the US if the US wants to fuck you up again. If we wanted to we could drop a nuke on Iran tomorrow. No country with a leader that has any brains wants to fight the US, it's only the stupid meglomaniacs that try. It's that simple folks.