http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article2811628.ece
As long as the Shi'i of S. Lebanon (allied with the mostly sympathetic Palestinian refugees, the mostly sympathetic and mostly poor Christians, the majority sympathetic Druze and the resentfully sympathetic Sunnis) refuse to enter a war, there will not be one. This is not just a prediction but a fact.
'Rebellions can be made by 2 per cent active and 98 per cent passively sympathetic' - T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia)
The "key" to understanding "war" is to know that wars are not always fought with weapons and those that are fought with weapons seldom prove fruitful. It is the wars that are fought without them via resistance (which resort only to self defensive actions) that generally achieve long lasting success. The only occupation that has ever really proven successful is the White Man's occupation of North America and we can see that due to both legal and illegal immigration...that is not actually a "done deal".
If you look at it the way I do, we humans are all occupiers. Occupiers of the Dominion of Allah the Supreme Dictator of all that is Dictated. Those of us who realize our place in this Dominion are guaranteed success. This of course is one very dangerous idea to those who believe themselves to be "permanent" occupiers of one nation or another (usually due to racial superiority complexes but also due to an overwhelming arrogance to Allah manifested by extreme materialism). There is no such thing as a permanent occupation because all of us die, all civilizations eventually collapse and even the animal kingdom experiences the sacred extinctions. And all of us return to the same Creator at the same time (has not happened yet). Those in the graves are awaiting that time.
And your Lord is the Self-sufficient one, the Lord of mercy; if He pleases, He may take you off, and make whom He pleases successors after you, even as He raised you up from the seed of another people.
Say: O my people! act according to your ability; I too am acting; so you will soon come to know, for whom (of us) will be the (good) end of the abode; surely the unjust shall not be successful. -The Cattle, Proof 6:133-135
A must read article by the always astute Robert Fisk:http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article2768261.ece
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