Sunday, December 18, 2005

Patrick Seale just got a fat paycheck!

Have any of you read Mr. Seale's recent and indispensable contribution to the discourse surrounding Lebanese Syrian relations??? Well... at the very least, his words quench the rumors that he has had a "falling out" with the Ba’th regime ever since Bashar came to power.

The title of his article is the following: "Is Lebanon Heading for Catastrophe?" His answer is that as long as Syria does not dominate Lebanon, the country will head towards that end. His words are a clear warning to the Western regimes: back off… or else, you will lose Lebanon.


Here are some ridiculous exerpts:

there are alarming signs that a hard-line Christian faction, known as the Lebanese Forces, is rearming clandestinely, no doubt because it feels threatened by Muslim militias, notably that of the Shiite movement Hizballah and of armed Palestinian groups. The Lebanese army, made up of different sects, seems unable to impose its will on these rival movements.

If Syria is in fact responsible for the murders in Lebanon, we should perhaps consider that it is acting in self-defense

Read the rest.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

I can't blame Seale. We all have our price, and life in London is so expensive.

Anonymous said...

"Fourthly, external interventions in Lebanon have reached a new height -- whether by the United States, France, Israel, the UN -- in some cases encouraged and invited in by Lebanese factions themselves. "

That moron accused every country of interfering with our politics, except one (guess who).

Anonymous said...

"Since most of the victims of the current campaign of assassination were opponents of Syria, the finger has inevitably been pointed at Syria. The UN commission of enquiry into Hariri’s killing, led by the German judge Detlev Mehlis, reached the tentative conclusion that Syria was deeply implicated. But the case against Syria is circumstantial. It has not been proved beyond reasonable doubt. A possibility which has not yet been explored is that one of Syria’s intelligence services may have been penetrated and manipulated to commit the murders -- perhaps by Israel"

Sing after me people:

'it's a jooo-ish, it's a jooo-ish,, it's a jooo-ish con-spi-racy!'

Anonymous said...

Anon 12:13 AM:

No, it's a

Straw-Man Straw-Man Straw-Man

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first, he said Israel, a political entity known for a policy political assassinations (ghassan Kanafani, Kamal Nasser, Jihad Jibril, Fathi Shiqaqi, among others)

Second of all, do you know Elie Cohen? If you do then you'll know that syrian intelligence can be infiltrated quite easily, QUITE EASILY!

So, is that a possibility? Yes, albeit unlikely. Was it explored? NO. You have no argument there.

Woopsie Doo! I seem to have inadvertently knocked down your StrawMan, try building another one!

Anonymous said...

My dear anon above, maybe you didn't notice, but there's only murderers on your list.

Anonymous said...

"Seale knows how to read the political situation in the MEA area!"

on Lebanon he gets shit!

Anonymous said...

anon 5:38 AM:

Ghassan Kanafani was a nobel-prize worthy author, and didn't carry a gun in his life. He was killed in a car bomb at age 36 with his niece, who was 17 at the time, in an operation that israel admitted to last year. He still gave us a great literary body of works that shall remain immortal henceforth.

Kamal Nasser was a poet, not a militant.

So no, maybe I didn't notice that my list only contains murderers, and I was also under the naive assumption that assassinations were against international law. But hey, that's just me, perhaps you know better.

Anonymous said...

Patrick Seal has no credibility

Master Blaster said...

Actually, at the end he all but admits that Syria killed him (which is what he did in that old piece he wrote I think after the Baath conference or maybe it was that older one. Can't remember). He just justifies it saying that this is the regime fighting for its life (which in itself is telling), and so deal with it. The other moral/ideological justification is vintage Seale garbage. But he's never made apologies about defending this regime, so nothing surprises me. This guy ideologically is stuck in the 70s.

I'll write about this very soon.

Master Blaster said...

The part about the LF arming is very dangerous and irresponsible on his part. He can't go around throwing bullshit like that. Where is this taking place? How does he know? Who said this? Who witnessed it? Where are the weapons coming in from? Syria!?!? Israel!?!? How? Through the sea?! Where? In Jouniyeh?!?!? What type of weapons!? Artillery?! Tanks!? Etc. It's so obviously bullshit that he cannot corroborate in any way, not even by naming an anonymous source. Nothing. He just throws a deadly piece of venom like that, just like that...

Master Blaster said...

And by the way, his mention of the LF is another indication of the timeframe in which he's stuck. It's a widespread phenomenon and you see it with twits like Helena Cobban. Lebanon for them is perpetually stuck in 1982-84. It's the ideologically suitable timeframe that acts as the prism through which they see everything, domestically, regionally, and internationally.

As-Safir is stuck there too.

Anonymous said...

The LF is indeed arming itself. Seale is probably referring to Geagea's bodyguards. They have between 10 and 20 guns. Unlike HA's katiouchas, these guns are a real threat to Lebanon's stability.

Anonymous said...

Anton Efend,

You are stuck in you own shit. Don't hyperventilate!
That's why I like Seale. He just uncovers the bigotry of guys like you. The questions you ask and say that Seale doesn't give answers for, are the same asked by HA supporters and you don't "corroborate in any way, not even by naming an anonymous source....just like that...
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Antone.. you're a piece of shit.

Master Blaster said...

Mmmmm, remarkable. Only what the hell are you talking about you idiot?!

The Palestinian weapons?! They had witnesses, and an LBC camera caught it on tape.

HA's own weapons?! I mean do I really need to answer this?!

What exactly are you talking about you fool?! Syria's culpability perhaps?! Gee, I wonder what the Investigative Committee is working on...

Wipe that foam from your mouth... and that shit that's dripping too. Dumbass.