February 17, 2005
MORAL NULLITY:
On The Beirut Bombing & Iraq (Robert Fisk & Amy Goodman, 17 February, 2005, Democracy Now!)
Yesterday, we spoke with journalist Robert Fisk in Lebanon. Fisk is the Chief Middle East correspondent for the London Independent and has lived in Beirut for many years. [...]ROBERT FISK: Syria, you see, has a strategic reason for being here. In 1982, the Israelis invaded Lebanon and got up to beyond Jounieh. And had they struck east with their tanks, they could have cut Syria in half. And Syria wants to make sure there are going to be no more pro-Israeli governments or Israeli-sponsored governments in Beirut, who might allow such a devastating event to take place in Syria. So, there's a kind of long term strategic reason why the Syrians are here. They're not here because they want to throw snowballs on the mountain of Sanine, or they like Iraq or they are keen on Lebanese society. They're here for strategic military reasons.
The Japanese were in Nanking for strategic military reasons. Posted by Orrin Judd at February 17, 2005 1:01 PM
And the Germans were in Paris for the cuisine.
Posted by: Luciferous at February 17, 2005 1:53 PMAnd the Israelis were in Lebanon for strategic military reasons as well.
Posted by: John Thacker at February 17, 2005 2:08 PMSo how does Fisk justify Syrian occupation without justifying Israeli and American occupation?
Posted by: Laurence Simon at February 17, 2005 2:38 PMGolan Heights...
Posted by: Bartman at February 17, 2005 3:02 PMWonder how Fisk feels about Chechnya? Or Kosovo? Or Darfur?
So much occupation....must be loyal to the manifesto....my mind is melting....
Posted by: jim hamlen at February 17, 2005 3:25 PMWhat a jackass.
Posted by: Chris Durnell at February 17, 2005 6:44 PMI guess Fisk didn't get the sh*t beat out of him three years ago, because he continues to spew it all over the place.
Posted by: Matt Murphy at February 17, 2005 9:50 PMFree Tibet!
Posted by: Dave W. at February 18, 2005 12:12 PMthe independent should raffle off the chance to beat the living daylights out of fisk -- "and for an extra 25 quid you can use a chair that fidel castor sat on"
Posted by: cjm at February 18, 2005 11:30 PM