Street Fascists Attacking Jews

Why Won’t The Israelis Let Themselves Get Murdered?

They’re (1968 and 2021) Are Not For Mideast Peace. They’re On the Other Side.

The population of Lebanon was 54% Christian in 1932. I think there are still a great many Christians there, just not the majority; there hasn’t been a census there in nearly 90 years. About 2% of Jordan’s population is Christian. Israel’s population is 2% Christian. Fuzzy estimates in re the West Bank and Gaza put the Christian population there at < 2% There is no official data on the number of Christians in Egypt; authorities who toss out estimates have 6% as a lower bound. Syria and Iraq have been such a mess for so long that there’s no reliable estimate. There hasn’t been an indigenous Christian population in the Maghreb or on the Arabian peninsula for centuries. Christians in Iran were largely to be found in the Armenia minority. Christians in Turkey were largely to be found in the Armenian and Greek populations, one located in the northeast corner of the territory, the other on the Aegean coast. The bulk of these populations were expelled or killed between 1915 and 1923.

“The population of Lebanon was 54% Christian in 1932. I think there are still a great many Christians there, just not the majority;”

Yes, was the majority however nearly half now. 46% Christians- 26% Maronite, 9% Orthodox and 6% Melkite- the largest Christian population in the entire Middle East

The Constitution of Lebanon states that the President is to be elected as a Catholic Maronite. Period. No other Arab Nation has a Christian President.

The Civil War in Lebanon was ignited by PLO and Syria didnt “intervene” it was opportunistic and took Lebanon’s Civil War as an excuse to occupy the Nation with troops for years. I recall as an 8 year old child, Syrian Army officer arguing with my mother’s cousin, a member of the Lebanese Army for not letting us cross a checkpoint in Beirut to visit family in the North of Lebanon. If you think illegal immigration is a problem in the US, it pales in comparisons the amount of illegal Syrians living and working in Lebanon and taking every cent back to Syria. Not to mention the Palestinian settlements which occupy parts of Beirut.

“ Damour Massacre (occurred in a Lebanese Christian town 20minutes south of Beirut) in 1976 where Muslim militia and Palestinian Liberation Army massacred up to 500 Christians.”

What happens to Christian in the Middle East often seems to be ignored or minimized by the USA and international communities. I’m not aware of any modern interventions by the US or international communities to help the persecuted Middle East Christians.

My ideas about our Nation’s Middle East Military adventures changed after speaking with one of our Chaldean interpreters who lost most of her family to kidnapping and murder following our invasion and occupation. This is a reason that I find our calls for regime change and involvement in the Syrian Civil War very disturbing.

In retrospect Regan’s intervention in Lebanon resulted in the deaths of many Marines and ultimately proved harmful to the Christians in that nation, but very advantageous to those who despise our nation’s citizens.

I have also come to even questioned if it was in our nation’s best interest to arm the Afghanistan Mujahideen with shoulder fired missiles to attack Russian aircraft.

Who would you prefer in Iraq, Uday or Qusay?

My preference is to have a legitimately elected President as the Commander in Chief of my country.

I don’t think it my place, or my Country’s State Department, to chose who rules, Iraq,, Syria, Libya, Egypt, or Ukraine.

I don’t think it my place, or my Country’s State Department, to chose who rules, Iraq,, Syria, Libya, Egypt, or Ukraine.

How scrupulous. You think it’s ‘the place’ of the local brigands just why?

The State Department never chose who rules Syria, Libya, Egypt, or the Ukraine. It didn’t exactly choose who runs Iraq, either. The Egyptian and Ukranian regimes suffered an abrupt loss of obedience which left the head of state unable to apply force. (In Egypt this happened twice). This is not a rare phenomenon and resolves itself in several ways.

There’s a sailerite / paleo-conservative strain who admires skeevy foreign governments as long as they’re hostile to the United States, so you had Thos. Fleming turning his publication into a press agency for bloodthirsty Serb nationalists and you had Steve Sailer’s comment boxes over-run with fools enraged that Vladimir Putin’s protege had been sent packing in the Ukraine. I have no clue why people invest in this nonsense, other than there’s commonly a self-aggrandizing aspect to contrarianism.

What’s notable about Iraq, Syria, and Libya is that they were run by men whose modus operandi was radically dissimilar to how political life was conducted in these places prior to a certain date (1958, 1963, and 1969 respectively) and that they were rather adverse to leaving the rest of the world alone. This was particularly manifest in regard to Iraq, which had madcap ambitions to conquer every Arab state east of Egypt.

“Nation-building” is a nonsense term.

Rather dire reality in Afghanistan and, to a lesser extent, in Iraq.

The rather dire reality in those places has been disorder. Nations exist or they don’t. A national outlook can be promoted and fed by a central government (see France, 1789-1918), but you’d be hard put to find a nation manufactured out of the designs of politicians. The U.S. Government didn’t try to do that in either locale. They did try to implant institutions which would allow for negotiation and accommodation between competing segments of society. In neither locale was this completely unprecedented. There was experimentation with elected conciliar bodies during the late Ottoman period, institutional implants by the British mandatory authority which didn’t disappear entirely until 1958, and King Zahir Shah’s attempt at parliamentary institutions (1963-73). There’s multi-ethnic Pakistan right next door, where parliamentary institutions have bumped and ground along since 1985, interrupted for only one three year span of time (1999-2002).

There’s repeated use of the term ‘nation-building’ in the article, but no actual ‘nation building’ activity, just references to attempts to impose order and put a bureaucracy in place.