Posted on 08/16/2006 3:15:27 PM PDT by A. Pole
KHIAM, Lebanon, Aug. 15 -- In military-style black shirt and pants, Abu Shaker had a gait that was a little light for someone in combat boots. He smiled through his red-tinted beard, as returning residents waved and shouted greetings. And he pointed with authority, guiding a bulldozer plowing the streets of this Shiite Muslim town, blocked by refuse from a month-long barrage of air raids and shelling.
For 34 days, Abu Shaker was a Hezbollah fighter. By 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, he had taken charge as a relief worker.
"We're going to work until we open all the streets in the city," he said, as the bulldozer thundered across a road.
He looked around at the town, nearly every house scarred. "Whatever the people need, we'll do it for them," he said.
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More than simple reconstruction, the task before Hezbollah could decide the shape of postwar Lebanon. Nasrallah's order Monday to begin rebuilding -- without government coordination or approval -- poses one of the biggest tests for Lebanon's already weak government, which in the aftermath of the war has pledged to exercise its uncontested control all the way to the Israeli border.
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Into the 1970s, some of the villagers here had no roads, hospitals or schools.
In that environment, Hezbollah distinguished itself as a social organization by its lack of corruption, ability to mobilize its people and success in fulfilling its promises. After the last Israeli campaign in 1996, Hezbollah said it repaired 5,000 Lebanese homes, rebuilt roads and provided compensation to 2,300 farmers.
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Huh, what do you know? It looks like the positions of Hezbollah fighter and relief worker are interchangeable. Who knew?
Anthony needs to wipe off his chin. He's dribbling Hezzie DNA all over the place.
So were the early Zionist settlers, they were farmers, fighters and when needed the relief workers.
These guys are democrats in action. Where as democrats try to talk the economy into the gutter to gain power, these people just go out and do the trashing themselves. And the people come running for that public support afterwards. Happiness in bizarroland.
Would this be the same Iran that always pleads for foreign aid whenever an earthquake strikes???
Amazing. Who knew that Hezbollah was full of civil engineers?
One wonders if the Washington Post would cut the same slack to the rebuilding efforts on the US Gulf Coast??? Not!
I was alluding to the now-infamous 'relief worker' in the pictures of dead children at the collapsed building. I guess I was too vague......
Heck...rebuilding Iraq...if it's not a car bomb killing civvies in Iraq...the MSM doesnt report it.
Good point. OTOH, the early Zionists didn't undergo a concerted attack by artillery & aircraft -- later backed up by a mechanized assault -- for some 34 days. The damage to roads, bridges & crossroad towns will take many years to repair. It's worse than starting from scratch.
crickets
the MSM are anti semites and anti American
muslimes are living mentally in the 9th century, may as well be there physically as well. worthless scum.
Ugh. Don't tell me that!
Too bad the drive by media doesn't report on all the wonderful rebuilding and assistance the US is doing in Iraq.
There are "muslimes" and "muslimes". The differences between their sects are not smaller than between Baptists and Catholics, sometimes they are larger.
You should never underestimate your opponent. And you should always try to understand him.
"One who knows the enemy and knows himself will not be in danger in a hundred battles. One who does not know the enemy but knows himself will sometimes win, sometimes lose. One who does not know the enemy and does not know himself will be in danger in every battle."
(Sun-tzu, The Art of War, chapter III )
Muslim democracy = crack pot idea
The only functioning Muslim countries are the ones with monarchy or dictatorship...
Get with it in Iraq!
I hear a loud flushing sound.
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