"Debka File" reports that huge US C-141 transport planes are flying bombs, missiles and spare parts for the Israeli Air force aircraft, and helicopters, in an airlift of war fighting materiel to Israel. The re-supply began over the past weekend with the big planes dropping in, unloading, and taking off again quickly.
This response from the US comes after Iran began replenishing Hizbollah’s stocks of arms on Wednesday July 19th.
Read the entire report at:
http://www.debka.com/
It is also interesting to note, as "Debka File" reports, that an Iranian General Officer has assumed command of the Hizbollah fighters in Southern Lebanon.
It would appear the US, and Iran, are, currently, at war with each other using proxies as combatants. This is not new to the US. We fought the Soviet Union for 40 years with proxies all over the world.
If there was any doubt as to where the UN’s sympathies lie in this war, consider the Secretary General’s remarks; reference Israel firing on a UN position earlier this week. Reports from the region tell us that UN position, along with a string of other UN positions, along that border, were, and are, being used by Hizbollah to fire upon, or direct fire upon, Israel civilians or troops. Israel was well within its rights to fire upon that UN position and any other UN position, which the terrorists have been allowed to use.
Now we have reports that an Iranian Republican Guard commander has arrived on scene and taken command of the Hizbollah terrorists.
Isn’t it time to move a US Navy task force into the Med off shore of Israel? Our carrier aircraft could act as backups to the IAF. Not that they need us, necessarily. But it would send a strong message to Iran, and to Syria, that we have Israel’s back.
In any event, we are now at war with Iran. Maybe not officially, but heck, we haven’t had an “official” war since the Second World War. That did not prevent us from fighting the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Gulf War One, and whatever this thing in Iraq is called.
We are hearing rumors that Syria has ramped up her military alerts as well. This must scare the “bejesus” out of Syrian pilots. The last time they clashed with the Israeli Air force the Syrian losses were something on the order of 100 Syrian aircraft shot down to every one of the Israeli jets to fall. It was like unto a “turkey shoot” for the Israeli pilots. If memory serves, the IAF was flying French “Mirage” jets in those days. Now they are jockeying the hottest fighter-bomber aircraft in the world… made, of course, by the US.
I must tell you… it is somewhat amusing to watch and listen to the press on the ground in Israel, and Lebanon, talking of the “war” now underway along the southern Lebanon border. Those of us who recognize war, when we see it, understand the WAR hasn’t started yet. Israel is preparing the battlefield. That’s all. There are some ongoing skirmishes along the border and some strategic, and tactical, bombing of communications centers, command centers, and re-supply routes, as the Israelis isolate Hizbollah from their backers… Iran and Syria. Once the battlefield is prepared to Israel’s liking, then the war will begin.
When it does… it will be unmistakable. It will rev up quickly and the juggernaut, that is the Israeli Defense Forces, will cut thru the Hizbollah like a hot knife through butter. The six years Hizbollah has had to prepare entrenchments, tunnels, fighting positions, and bunkers, are slowly being unraveled, identified, and destroyed, methodically day by day. The days of static fighting positions have been long gone since Vietnam. Somehow, the armies of the Middle East (and I use the term “armies” loosely) have not picked up on that. On today’s battlefield, if you stand still… you are dead. Dig in, if you must. But understand, if you do, you are only digging your own grave. Don’t believe me, ask the vaunted Republican Guard of Iraq!
So now we wait.
The new, longer range, missiles, Iran has shipped to the Hizbollah, will only heighten the blood lust of the Israelis. At some point, Israel will strike the Iranian homeland. Expect to see Iranian airfields blown to smithereens, soon, in an effort to abort Iran’s airborne re-supply shipments of rockets and missiles to Hizbollah.
Once the balloon goes up, I see no way to confine this war to Lebanon. It almost certainly will become a regional war.
Once again, the US military is being underestimated. There belief that America cannot fight on two, or more, fronts is a fallacy Iran is about to be disabused of. It has been beneficial to our cause to allow the world to believe that America’s military is stretched too thin. We’re not there yet.
I must tell you that American troops fighting back to back with Israel will be a sight to behold!
The hour is quickly approaching for the “Cowboy” President to saddle up again.
We have one request of the US military. While we’re in Syria, and Lebanon, lets take a very long, and protracted, “look about”, in the Bakaa Valley, for those lost WMDs of Saddam’s. Those Russian aircraft flying out of Iraq, ahead of the invading US troops, certainly took them somewhere. The Bakaa Valley is a darn good candidate for their hiding place.
Deo Vindice!
Longstreet
It's about time we stop this game of charades and got down to it.
ReplyDeleteIsrael is fighting this war as much for the US as it is for itself. We can't allow Israel to go lacking for supplies.
We have known, all along, that Iran is backing the "Hezballs" so it should come as no surprise, to anyone, that the US is backng Israel.
If Iran runs "regulars" in, to fight against Israel, I'm all for putting US boots on the ground, in Lebanon, to fight Iran alongside the IDF.
These Islamic nuts have to be stopped, no matter the cost.
I look for bombing raids soon, in Iran, as the IAF to knock out Iranian airfields.
Give Israel whatever it needs, up to and including, manpower!