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Perle planned this 10 years ago?

El_KabongEl_Kabong Posts: 4,141
edited July 2006 in A Moving Train
http://www.iasps.org/strat1.htm

a report written by Richard Perle in 96, some key points:

Our claim to the land to which we have clung for hope for 2000 years--is legitimate and noble. It is not within our own power, no matter how much we concede, to make peace unilaterally. Only the unconditional acceptance by Arabs of our rights, especially in their territorial dimension....

Then he goes on to describe what he wants to happen, which is exactly what is currently happening:


Securing the Northern Border

Syria challenges Israel on Lebanese soil. An effective approach, and one with which American can sympathize, would be if Israel seized the strategic initiative along its northern borders by engaging Hizballah, Syria, and Iran, as the principal agents of aggression in Lebanon, including by:

-striking Syrias drug-money and counterfeiting infrastructure in Lebanon, all of which focuses on Razi Qanan.

-paralleling Syrias behavior by establishing the precedent that Syrian territory is not immune to attacks emanating from Lebanon by Israeli proxy forces.

-striking Syrian military targets in Lebanon, and should that prove insufficient, striking at select targets in Syria proper.

-diverting Syrias attention by using Lebanese opposition elements to destabilize Syrian control of Lebanon.

Under Syrian tutelage, the Lebanese drug trade, for which local Syrian military officers receive protection payments, flourishes. Syrias regime supports the terrorist groups operationally and financially in Lebanon and on its soil. Indeed, the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley in Lebanon has become for terror what the Silicon Valley has become for computers. The Bekaa Valley has become one of the main distribution sources, if not production points, of the "supernote" counterfeit US currency so well done that it is impossible to detect.

Given the nature of the regime in Damascus, it is both natural and moral that Israel abandon the slogan "comprehensive peace" and move to contain Syria, drawing attention to its weapons of mass destruction program, and rejecting "land for peace" deals on the Golan Heights.

Israels new agenda can signal a clean break by abandoning a policy which assumed exhaustion and allowed strategic retreat by reestablishing the principle of preemption, rather than retaliation alone and by ceasing to absorb blows to the nation without response.

plenty of other ugly stuff in it
standin above the crowd
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
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    PaperPlatesPaperPlates Posts: 1,745
    El_Kabong wrote:
    http://www.iasps.org/strat1.htm

    a report written by Richard Perle in 96, some key points:

    Our claim to the land to which we have clung for hope for 2000 years--is legitimate and noble. It is not within our own power, no matter how much we concede, to make peace unilaterally. Only the unconditional acceptance by Arabs of our rights, especially in their territorial dimension....

    Then he goes on to describe what he wants to happen, which is exactly what is currently happening:


    Securing the Northern Border

    Syria challenges Israel on Lebanese soil. An effective approach, and one with which American can sympathize, would be if Israel seized the strategic initiative along its northern borders by engaging Hizballah, Syria, and Iran, as the principal agents of aggression in Lebanon, including by:

    -striking Syrias drug-money and counterfeiting infrastructure in Lebanon, all of which focuses on Razi Qanan.

    -paralleling Syrias behavior by establishing the precedent that Syrian territory is not immune to attacks emanating from Lebanon by Israeli proxy forces.

    -striking Syrian military targets in Lebanon, and should that prove insufficient, striking at select targets in Syria proper.

    -diverting Syrias attention by using Lebanese opposition elements to destabilize Syrian control of Lebanon.

    Under Syrian tutelage, the Lebanese drug trade, for which local Syrian military officers receive protection payments, flourishes. Syrias regime supports the terrorist groups operationally and financially in Lebanon and on its soil. Indeed, the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley in Lebanon has become for terror what the Silicon Valley has become for computers. The Bekaa Valley has become one of the main distribution sources, if not production points, of the "supernote" counterfeit US currency so well done that it is impossible to detect.

    Given the nature of the regime in Damascus, it is both natural and moral that Israel abandon the slogan "comprehensive peace" and move to contain Syria, drawing attention to its weapons of mass destruction program, and rejecting "land for peace" deals on the Golan Heights.

    Israels new agenda can signal a clean break by abandoning a policy which assumed exhaustion and allowed strategic retreat by reestablishing the principle of preemption, rather than retaliation alone and by ceasing to absorb blows to the nation without response.

    plenty of other ugly stuff in it

    Thanks for posting this. T'was a brilliant strategy then, and it still is now. These things arent brought out to the public eye enough.

    - striking Syrias drug-money and counterfeiting infrastructure in Lebanon,

    - Syrian territory is not immune to attacks emanating from Lebanon by Israeli proxy forces.

    -striking Syrian military targets in Lebanon, and should that prove insufficient, striking at select targets in Syria proper.

    -diverting Syrias attention by using Lebanese opposition elements to destabilize Syrian control of Lebanon.

    Sounds good.
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    inmytreeinmytree Posts: 4,741
    Thanks for posting this. T'was a brilliant strategy then, and it still is now. These things arent brought out to the public eye enough.

    - striking Syrias drug-money and counterfeiting infrastructure in Lebanon,

    - Syrian territory is not immune to attacks emanating from Lebanon by Israeli proxy forces.

    -striking Syrian military targets in Lebanon, and should that prove insufficient, striking at select targets in Syria proper.

    -diverting Syrias attention by using Lebanese opposition elements to destabilize Syrian control of Lebanon.

    Sounds good.


    perhaps we should invade Syria...bring them "freedom"...we could show them how do things correctly...
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