I have heard some silly things from around the world, but Lebanon declaring war on Israel is just about the dumbest there is. Have the Lebanese people lost their senses or what. Let look at the situation for a moment.

Lebanon has been in a civil war for years and has no army to speak of. Hezbollah has infiltrated their government and is using it as a puppet. There is little if any overall organization in Lebanon.

Israel is sick and tired of working with terrorist groups and still having its soldiers kidnapped. Israel has a standing army in good shape and in practice. By all accounts, the Israeli army is man for man the best in the world. Everyone in Israel serves in the armed forces, so Israel can raise a huge trained army at a moments notice. There is an organization to the Israeli Army and that makes it more effective.

So here we have it. On a scale of one to ten, a ten being the best army in the world, Israel takes Lebanon 10 to 3… Lebanon doesn’t stand a chance.

But there is something else here, and that is the way they two countries are handling themselves. Israel wants a stop to the kidnappings and rocket attacks, that’s all. What does Lebanon want? I do not know except to assume the usual obliteration of Israel itself. Gee, I wonder of that will happen. When attacking targets in Israel, Lebanon and Hezbollah attack civilian targets killing non-combatants. Israel targets only military targets when attacking. When was the last time you heard of Israel specifically targeting civilians? Granted there have been times when missiles went off target, it happens, that’s war, but they do not go out of there way to do so.

So I have to ask… Why is it that the world is not condemning the actions of Lebanon? Seriously? If any other country were attacked as Israel was, the world would be outraged. But when it is Israel the rules and responses are different.

Now we are seeing that this action on Israel was influenced by Iran with support from Syria. Also Hezbollah is attempting to get the kidnapped soldiers to Iran. Can you imagine what may happen if they succeed in getting them there? What a total mess.

I can see no good reason for Hezbollah to have started this chain of events. I can see why in the timing… they figured that Israel was busy with Palestinians (read Hamas) in Gaza and figured that Israel would not notice… yeah, right.

The pundits are arguing that Israel is going to be out of it’s element because it has to fight right now on two fronts. Does anyone buy that one at all? Have you seen the size of Israel? Or Gaza? Or the Lebanese border?  Israel is a total of 7850 sq/m (to put that in perspective, Los Angeles is 4061 sq/m) and Gaza is a mere 360 sq/k (139 sq/m). The border with Lebanon is about 40 miles long, that is nothing. Multiple fronts, ridiculous, they are all one front and not a very big one at that.

Well, it is all a mystery to me why people can be so stupid. The Lion is stirring again and I wonder who will be mauled by the Israeli military machine this time?