Reply #104: How is this better than intl. cooperation in intel and police work? [View All]

a new gov't in Lebanon, fledgling, barely getting even the brass name plates all correct on desks, and expect them to work miracles that even powerful nations cannot do (war on terror, my ass!). how is this better than working with the newly budding sense of progress that the nation was having? there was opportunity to build up intelligence and law enforcement relationhips, increased commerce, communication, and trust. and with those increases in ties, that empathic relationship and mutual love of peace growing between the ordinary citizens of both, old relics of violence and hatred would have had a greater chance to wither on the vine. scortched earth isn't the best method to weed the garden.

the greatest crimes of this new century is the squandering of such beautiful opportunities...