Friedman's assertion about the pervasiveness of modern weaponry is born out by the Israeli general who told the New York Times that Hezbollah has "some of the best weapons systems that Iran and Syria have" -- including medium-range rockets, laser-guided antitank missiles, and well-designed explosive mines that can cripple an advance tank. The group has more than 10,000 rockets, including Iranian-made long range missiles capable of hitting Tel Aviv.of course, that we're the world's biggest dealer in arms and advanced weaponry, our getting hoisted by our own petard as russia & china return the favor of the cold war is, on an imperical if not patriotic level, poetic justice... we armed osama to the teeth with SAM technology in the early 80s to neutralize the soviet air-superiority in and around kabul, allowing the mujahadeen to bleed the red army, just as the iraqi insurgency is bleeding g.i. joe in baghdad and the hezbollah will bleed the israelis in lebanon... and now moscow & beijing are fast-forwarding the means for all of islam to resist the great satan and its zionist proxy... tit for tat...
or did you actually think the soviet incursion into afghanistan in 1980 was unjust while our invasion of iraq, or the israeli collateral infliction on lebanese civilians, as just... ? see, that's why i'm agnostic: that kind of nationalist "logic" escapes me...
meanwhile, did you notice the soviets were at least smart enough to get the hell out... ?
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