Iran's Second Front

As those who would like to kill us watch our useless politicians spend more time circle-jerking their way through what was once a winnable war on terror, one wonders how long before the world realizes that America is ripe for destruction and begins the process. It's just a matter of time, especially if the Democrats make any gains in Congress.

From IBD:
Posted 4/12/2006

Axis Of Evil: In any military confrontation with the West over its nuclear weapons program, Iran has the option of unleashing Hezbollah on Israel. We may yet pay for failing to fully implement U.N. Resolution 1559.
Israel's Northern Command has concluded a three-day exercise along its border with Syria and Lebanon to test "operational readiness" to face "possible threats in the Golan and terrorist acts that Hezbollah may stage from Lebanon."

Southern Lebanon is a long way from the Strait of Hormuz, the oil transit chokepoint that Iran has threatened to close in any confrontation with the West, and where it has demonstrated new military capabilities in recent exercises.

But Lebanon's 70-mile frontier with Israel could be one place Iran retaliates through its surrogate, Hezbollah, if either the U.S. or Israel takes military action against Iran's nuclear sites.

In a recent interview with World Net Daily's Aaron Klein and ABC Radio's John Batchelor on Batchelor's national radio program, Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, head of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party, said Lebanon "is being used by the Iranians as a front which could be used if the Americans retaliate against Iran's nuclear facilities."

Jumblatt's statement comes after a report in London's Daily Telegraph stating that Iranian Revolutionary Guards are now deployed at posts along the Israeli border. A senior Israeli Defense Forces commander told the Telegraph that these posts are "Iran's frontline with Israel."

It's been about a year since Syria withdrew its troops from Lebanon under international pressure after the Syrian-orchestrated assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri prompted mass demonstrations that cut across religious and ethnic lines in the Middle East's first multicultural democracy.

In addition to the withdrawal of Syrian forces and Syrian intelligence operatives (who are believed to be still active in Lebanon), U.N. Resolution 1559 called for "disbanding and disarming all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias."

This, presumably, includes Hezbollah.

Hezbollah refuses to disarm, contending it's a legitimate political party that has seats in the Lebanese parliament and is merely defending Lebanese sovereignty against Israel. But its loyalties are open to question, and its legitimacy as a political party brings to mind Hitler's National Socialist Party in Nazi Germany.

Hezbollah is in fact an Iranian creation supported financially and militarily by Tehran. When not waving Lebanese flags for gullible Western media, Hezbollah sports a yellow and green flag depicting a fist brandishing a Kalashnikov rifle, posed against a globe and advocating "an Islamic revolution in Lebanon."

Hezbollah reportedly has an inventory of between 12,000 and 16,000 conventional short- and long-range missiles that are pointed at Israel's northern border and that can reach Galilee and other parts of northern Israel where 20% of its people live.

According to Michael Herzog of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Hezbollah has also been supplied by Iran with a considerable number of long-range rockets. These include the 240 mm Fajr-3 with a 26-mile range and its big brother, the Fajr-5, with a 43-mile range. They can reach Haifa and other Israeli cities with potentially devastating results.

Iran's Mad Hatter, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has announced his intention to wipe Israel off the map and fancies himself the instrument chosen to usher in the reappearance of the 12th Imam, Shi'ism's version of the Messiah.

While we're trying to deal with his nuclear ambitions, it would serve us well to focus on disarming Hezbollah and removing its threat to northern Israel where, in the Valley of Megido, a Biblical prophecy says the battle of Armageddon will be fought.