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RUSH: Before I get into the detailed explanation of why I think this is a gift to the world that is happening now in the Middle East, a little historical perspective first. To set up the historical perspective I\u2019ve got to share with you some audio sound bites. First, this morning in St. Petersburg, Russia. This is a portion of President Bush\u2019s conversation with Tony Blair about Lebanon. The president was eating lunch there. There was a microphone on a table that — the story is, that — Bush and Blair didn\u2019t know the microphone was on. I\u2019m not sure I believe that. You don\u2019t get to be president… You see a microphone, you always assume that it is going to be on. This is what the president said.<\/line>THE PRESIDENT: See, the irony is that what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this [bleep], and it\u2019s over. <\/line>RUSH: So what he said there, “See, the irony is that what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this [bleep], and it\u2019s over.” That\u2019s a key comment aside from the expletive that was deleted. So I\u2019m not sure that that was a comment that was made in ignorance of the fact that a microphone was on. So go to this morning, MSNBC, let\u2019s just set the table here. The anchor, Contessa Brewer, with NBC\u2019s chief correspondent, Andrea Mitchell, about Bush\u2019s swearing. Contessa Brewer says, “Do you think he expresses his frustration with these other players going in and getting their fingers involved where they don\u2019t belong?”<\/line>MITCHELL: What he was saying in that moment of unvarnished comment to Tony Blair was that he\u2019s frustrated that Kofi Annan has first of all been calling for a cease-fire. A cease-fire right now would stop Israel from cleaning out Hezbollah or trying to clean out —<\/line>RUSH: Come on! I can\u2019t take it. Stop the tape. I cannot handle this. All week long I\u2019ve been listening and hearing Israel must practice restraint. Israel, world leaders tell Israel to practice restraint, it\u2019s Israel\u2019s fault. Just sit tight, folks, Israel\u2019s been told, “You give up that plot of land and there will be peace,” there\u2019s no peace. “Give up that plot of land, there will be peace.” There\u2019s no peace, and by the time they\u2019re said and done, Israel is a country that, at its narrowest up there is nine miles wide and everybody keeps telling them, “Give that back to the Palestinians. Give that back to Hezbollah. Give that back to whoever, Hamas. We\u2019ll have peace,” and it\u2019s not the case. <\/line><\/p>\n

This is a classic illustration of the Limbaugh Doctrine. There\u2019s not going to be peace in that region, and that\u2019s why this is a gift to the world in part. There is not going to be peace in that region until somebody emerges victorious over somebody else. The peace results from the winner setting the terms of surrender to the loser, and not before. The UN, absolutely worthless. The US State Department, absolutely worthless, in prior years. All this about negotiation and diplomacy, diplomatic solution, what\u2019s this been going on, 50 years? When are we going to wake up? When are people going to wake up and realize this is not how this is going to be solved? Here\u2019s the rest of Andrea Mitchell.<\/line>MITCHELL: — placements and not return the soldiers, not in fact stop Hezbollah from continuing to rocket northern Israel. The second thing, the second frustration which you just saw there was the president saying that Kofi Annan has not come down hard enough on Syria\u2019s president Assad to stop Hezbollah. So all of those things are in play and that was President Bush unvarnished.<\/line>RUSH: I refuse… I know President Bush. He\u2019s a smart man, and I refuse to believe that President Bush is sitting around waiting for Kofi Annan to deliver some hard hitting message to somebody that\u2019s going to stop this. He\u2019s not that stupid nor is he that ignorant nor does he live in that sort of pie-in-the-sky world. Now, we put together here a little montage for you of the Drive-By Media and Democrats, and the basic premise here, the new action line, the new template is that the war in Iraq has caused this new instability in the Middle East, and that has caused the president to be distracted and bogged down in Iraq, and therefore he was ignoring the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This is been going on for thousands of years! Bush has not been ignoring it. <\/line>It was Clinton who left all of these problems to be solved by his successor. If anybody was ignoring everything it was Bill Clinton. I know you libs get upset with me. “Why can\u2019t you let Clinton go?” The Clinton administration is a factor in all this stuff. They\u2019re a factor in the way we deal with China, a factor in Iraq, they\u2019re a factor in North Korea, they\u2019re a factor in Iran. (Well, Jimmy Carter gave us the modern day Iran.) But just listen to this media montage to show you the narrow focus of the Drive-By Media. The action line on all US foreign policy is that whatever problem in the world exists, it\u2019s Bush\u2019s fault for one reason or another, largely Iraq. Anything they can do to portray Iraq as a failed policy in as many ways as possible they will do, and this montage demonstrates that.<\/line>ANDREA MITCHELL: The administration has been so focused on Iraq and Afghanistan, it has failed to pay enough attention to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. <\/line>GEORGE MITCHELL: Where it\u2019s focused is Iraq. <\/line>NORAH O\u2019DONNELL: The war in Iraq has led to what has happened in the actions by Hamas and Hezbollah.<\/line> JOE BIDEN: Does anybody think we can wage a war now against Syria, against Iran, while we\u2019re still bogged down in Iraq? <\/line>RUSH: Stop the tape. The only people that don\u2019t think we can wage a war and win anywhere are people like you, Senator Biden, and it\u2019s because of policies of the Democratic Party and the American left that we now have this whole notion. I\u2019m getting so sick and tired of people rooting for the defeat of the good guys. New York Times has an editorial that\u2019s just — they may as well have announced that they have chosen sides and they want the terrorists to win. It\u2019s the most amazing editorial. We\u2019ll get to all that. Here\u2019s the rest of the montage.<\/line><\/p>\n

SEN. BOXER: There\u2019s been an obsession with Iraq, taking advantage of the fact that we\u2019re bogged down. <\/line>SEN. DODD: The issue of Iraq. We are bogged down there. <\/line>CHRIS WALLACE: Are we so bogged down now in Iraq? <\/line>JIM VANDEHEI: Iraq, a distraction. <\/line>TIM RUSSERT: Did the president pay enough attention to the Middle East or was he preoccupied with Iraq? <\/line>GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Many argued that going into Iraq would stir up a hornet\u2019s nest.<\/line>RUSH: Oh, my God.<\/line>MADAM ALBRIGHT: The war in Iraq has clearly spread in many different ways — <\/line>RUSH: I can\u2019t believe what I\u2019m hearing.<\/line>MADAM ALBRIGHT: –has made the situation worse. <\/line>BILL SCHNEIDER: The United States is paying for having put the Israel-Palestine issue on the back burner for most of the last five years paying much more attention to Iraq.<\/line>RUSH: Literal idiots. And these are the people in the Drive-By Media with such a narrow focus. They have missed the problem with one letter. The problem is Iran. It is not Iraq, folks. The problem is Iran. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>RUSH: As you know, the liberal left is bouncing off the walls right now. There\u2019s new confusion in the confused-already Drive-By mainstream. There is near suicide in the epicenters of liberalism over all this because the cowboy did it again. “President Bush unilaterally supported Israel!” Unilateral! Oh, they just can\u2019t stand that. The American left despises Israel, as does much of the rest of the terrorist world and so forth. The president of the United States, our commander-in-chief, faced off over there with this group of eight and supported Israel, supported their right, Israel\u2019s right to defend herself — and our left, our liberals, our “progressives,” they have to suck it up…<\/line>I\u2019m getting ahead of myself here just a little bit. There\u2019s a week of catch-up to do, a week of split-screen confusion that needs the clarity of me, your all-seeing, all knowing Maha Rushie. Everybody wants to know who\u2019s at fault here. Well, the American left and the Arab bloc, of course, blame Israel. Our realists blame Hezbollah, Syria and IRAN — and put IRAN in capital letters — and then of course the American left says, “Well, Israel shouldn\u2019t overreact. Hezbollah didn\u2019t fire rockets, and we\u2019ll have peace and flowers and happiness, wouldn\u2019t that be nice? Can we just have a cease-fire?” Well, just who is at fault here, who is to blame? It\u2019s not Israel, and it\u2019s not really Hezbollah. It\u2019s not even Syria.<\/line><\/p>\n

Well, it has to be Iran, but what is it that\u2019s enabling Hezbollah and Syria and Iran to act as they are? Folks, this is terribly important here, because if a strong show of response is not demonstrated to these people, Iran, Syria and Hezbollah, they are going to be emboldened. If you want to know who I think is at fault here, the United Nations for one, our state department number two, and perhaps Colin Powell number three. We have political opportunists in this country always putting ambition over country, and we have the Bush hating Drive-By Media that refuses to criticize UN failures while continuing to hold out hope that the only body on the planet that can ever solve any problem when it hasn\u2019t ever solved one is the United Nations. <\/line> Now, six years ago, folks, Israel and Lebanon and the United Nations agreed that Israel would withdraw from southern Lebanon. Lebanon would disarm the terrorist militia Hezbollah, and the UN would supervise. Oh, let\u2019s all sing kumbaya. Let\u2019s have a party. Six years later, what\u2019s happening? Hezbollah rocket launchers are launching alongside UN flags at the border, and now, after all of this, God help us: Kofi Annan wants to supervise a cease-fire after a policy which guaranteed us all that this that\u2019s happening right now could not and would not happen if Israel would just withdraw from southern Lebanon. So much for John Kerry\u2019s United Nations. Now, for the State Department. President Bush showed the Middle East that the fun\u2019s over, did so in Iraq. <\/line>The next domino was to be Syria. This Iraq war was never meant to stop in Iraq. Remember the original Axis of Evil. This was to root out that whole region over there, either through diplomacy or through military action. Syria should have blinked at all this, but it was our state department that blinked first, and Syria learned that they could withdraw from Lebanon without withdrawing. They could pull out without actually pulling out because nobody was going to do anything about it once they didn\u2019t pull out, and Iran now enters the fray with a brand-new strategery, and it\u2019s called war by militias. We\u2019ve got the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon. We have the Hamas militia in Gaza, and the Muqi al-Sadr militia in southern Iraq. <\/line>As for our allies, the old reliable Jacques Chirac (nobody surprised here), accuses Israel of overreacting. I think to the French, if Israel said “ouch” after one of these bombs struck or one of these missiles struck, the French would accuse them of having an overreaction. Wonder how many rockets France would have suffered without overreacting if somebody lobbed some missiles into them. France gets upset over penalties in the World Cup but they don\u2019t get upset over anything else. So here we are today, this very moment, the media template is Israel overreacting. Bush was distracted. Bush caused all of this by going into Iraq rather than the appropriate template, after England, France, and Germany — what was it? Two years negotiating with Iran, Iran still is doing their nuke buildup.<\/line><\/p>\n

Iran is still engaged in influencing events throughout that region. Any wonder why Iran unleashed the militia strategy on the Middle East? Because nobody cares. Nobody cares what Iran\u2019s doing. Nobody wants to do anything to stop Iran from what they\u2019re doing except Israel. Now, if America is the cradle of democracy, Israel is the cradle of reality in that region. That\u2019s why the rest of the world doesn\u2019t support us. All of this restraint and cessation of hostilities is just a bunch of garbage, folks. They gave them Gaza. They pulled out of south Lebanon. Now they want to destroy Israel, so what is this restraint business? Israel is just supposed to sit back? I had a conversation when I was gone, a guy said, “You see the movie Munich?”<\/line>I said, “No, haven\u2019t seen it. I\u2019ve got it on DVD but haven\u2019t seen it.” <\/line>“It\u2019s a brilliant movie. You\u2019ve gotta watch it. It was all about these Israelis who went in and sought revenge after the \u201972 Olympics, and the commandos finally said, ‘You know what? It doesn\u2019t matter. We kill them; they kill us back, and it never stops.'”<\/line>“So what are we supposed to do then? They\u2019re not supposed to avenge what happened in the \u201972 Olympics?”<\/line>All this moral equivocation: There are no good guys, no bad guys. “You know, we just have to stop the killing.” Well, all right, and guess who has to be restrained? The good guys! Israel has to be restrained, but when Hezbollah attacks, or Hamas attacks, or Iran through proxies attacks. “Why, it\u2019s somewhat understandable because Israel shouldn\u2019t be there. Israel transplanted itself. It\u2019s those people\u2019s country, and they\u2019re so poor, and they\u2019re so bedraggled and nobody wants them. Who can blame them for what they\u2019re doing,” but we can always blame Israel. Here\u2019s the key: Are we going to take care of Iran now before it has nukes or are we going to wait until we can\u2019t do anything? <\/line>That\u2019s the key here. <\/line>Iran is nothing more than a third-rate dictatorship. It\u2019s not supported by it\u2019s own people. There\u2019s a very restive population there. It\u2019s a Jimmy Carter legacy which has to be ended. Now, Israel can\u2019t do this. People say, “Turn Israel loose on Iran.” Israel can\u2019t do it, folks. They can\u2019t take care of Iran without us. Iran is too far away for their ground forces. It\u2019s too far away for their fighter jets to run bombing missions and to get back, but just think. Ask yourself a hypothetical: if we were doing to Iran what Israel is doing in Lebanon, that might be enough. You don\u2019t need to go in and occupy Iran. Anything that takes its place can\u2019t be any worse if we were to root out the current mullah regime and that has to be objective number one. That\u2019s why I think this is a gift to the world, folks. This is an opportunity finally to do something about Iran. Iran is the elephant in the room in all of this, and if we sit here and say it\u2019s Hezbollah or it\u2019s Assad or it\u2019s Syria or it\u2019s Hamas, we are blaming the tentacles and not the brain, and Iran is the center and the focus of this, and that\u2019s why this is a gift.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to stick with this theme. I\u2019m just amazed. I really am. These are otherwise intelligent people, the Drive-By Media I\u2019m talking about, but they are so narrowly focused right now on just getting rid of Bush, harming Bush that no matter what happens in the world it\u2019s Bush\u2019s fault, and they can\u2019t even see the real evil when they look at it. To them, George W. Bush represents more evil than Ahmadinejad in Iran or any of these kooks around the world such as Kim Jong ll and, of course, it\u2019s all Bush\u2019s fault, and now they\u2019re starting to say, “Bush is getting ready to leave, wants to leave all these problems for his successor.”<\/line>Ladies and gentlemen, if there\u2019s anybody who left every problem on this planet to his successor, it was William Jefferson Clinton, from Iraq to Iran to North Korea to Al-Qaeda, every one of those problems left to his successor. Now, this war on terrorism, which a significant population, or portion of the population of this country does not even want to consider a war, and many of those people are elected Democrats, but it\u2019s a war, and I don\u2019t know how you can look at these pictures and not understand that there\u2019s something really serious going on that yet presents us finally with an opportunity that we didn\u2019t start. Of course, the Drive-By Media thinks we did start all this by going into Iraq and stirring up a hornet\u2019s nest, as though there hasn\u2019t been tension in the Middle East long before we got there. <\/line>By the way, as far as stirring up tensions, have you seen this about-face? The Sunnis want the US to remain in Iraq. I thought John Murtha\u2019s out there saying that they wanted us out of there. The Sunnis have now undercut Murtha, they\u2019ve thrown Murtha overboard. Many Sunni, Arab, political and religious leaders once staunchly opposed to the American presence in Iraq, are now saying they need American troops to protect them from the rampages of Shi\u2019ite militias and Shi\u2019ite-run government forces. They don\u2019t want us to leave. That\u2019s really stirring up a hornet\u2019s nest, huh? See, the war on terrorism was never supposed to be limited to just Iraq. <\/line>You have to attack. If you\u2019re going to have a war on terror, there are terrorists all over the place, you have to hit them where they reside, and from where they are attacking our forces in Iraq. If what they\u2019re doing now, if what Hezbollah… I keep saying Hezbollah and Hamas. It\u2019s all Iran, folks. If what Iran is doing does not result in a big blow to these people in Lebanon and in the Palestinian areas, they are going to be emboldened. In fact, Ralph Peters has a piece<\/a> today saying he\u2019s a little worried because the Israelis are not fighting this as they\u2019ve fought other times before. <\/line><\/p>\n

They have sent ground troops in before, and his theory is that if the Israelis don\u2019t send some ground forces into Lebanon — they did, for a while, temporarily, pulled them back — if they don\u2019t do that, they\u2019re going to send the message that they\u2019re not serious about this. If they\u2019re just going to trade missile lobs and not actually send in some ground troops, then these people will be emboldened and it will show the Hezbollah types and the Hamas types that all of a sudden Israeli has become afraid of casualties. That\u2019s Ralph Peters\u2019 theory<\/a>. Who knows, it probably will have some sort of effect on the bad guys if they do think, if they tell themselves — whether it\u2019s true or not — that the Israelis all of a sudden are afraid to take casualties, it\u2019ll have the same effect as bin Laden assuming we were afraid to take casualties after Somalia. <\/line>In fact, I mentioned this to you after I was in Afghanistan a year ago February. I guess about a year and a half ago now. I had dinner one night at the home of the commander of the Mujahideen forces against the Soviets. You know, they\u2019re the first ones that actually defeated, in a ground war, the Soviet Red Army. How did you do it? “Very simple. We wanted it more than they did, but they became afraid of casualties. They were afraid of the news going home of all their losses. They were afraid to put themselves in a position to take casualties for the first time in their history.” So you read what Ralph Peters thinks, military strategerist, author and so forth, he\u2019s in the New York Post today writing this. You have to say that he\u2019s got a point, but it\u2019s soon. Israel may not want to show all their cards. <\/line>He says in the next two or three days, week, whatever, if they don\u2019t send in ground forces to root out some of these hell spots it will indicate a new strategery on the part of the Israelis that might not be all that positive in terms of the emboldening effect it would have on the bad guys. But I\u2019ll tell you what else we don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve got a couple of sound bites from Madeleine Albright. I\u2019m getting fed up with hearing from Madeleine Albright. I\u2019m getting fed up with hearing from all the failures in this thing for the last 30 years. We don\u2019t need right now to be hearing from all of those who failed this process for the last 30 years, and they\u2019re all over television, these former ambassadors, former members of the State Department, former secretaries of state, all failures, pontificating on what this administration is doing wrong.<\/line>Newt\u2019s out there saying “World War III.” World War III began on 9\/11! But there\u2019s an opportunity here. We right now have no plan to deal with Iran if it gets nukes. Now is the time to deal with Iran, folks. I can\u2019t emphasize enough how I think this is a gift. Israel\u2019s bogging down Hezbollah, Israel has opened a western front in the process. Israel is wiping out the infrastructure. Israel is not trying to hurt the Lebanese, by the way. They\u2019re trying to encircle and close in on Hezbollah in Lebanon, cutting them off from leaving and getting support. That\u2019s why they\u2019re blowing up the highways. That\u2019s why they\u2019re blowing up the airports, and all this has been portrayed as Hezbollah, “Hey, nobody\u2019s ever seen them fire rockets like this. I guess Hezbollah is serious.” <\/line><\/p>\n

Hezbollah is being cordoned off. Hezbollah is being surrounded, and they\u2019re being bogged down, and I don\u2019t care what these narrowly focused lamebrains in the Drive-By Media are trying to tell you. It is the front line in the war against Syria and Hezbollah. But Israeli cannot do this by herself because Iran is in the mix. I mean, Israel can take out Hezbollah in Lebanon and Israel could wipe out Syria, if they had a mind to. Don\u2019t think that little tinhorn, Bashar Assad, is not scared to death today. You know, this guy has been emboldened in the past because he was told to pull out of Lebanon, he said I\u2019m pulling out, and he didn\u2019t, and he got away with it, thanks to our state department and the UN not following up, putting pressure on him. <\/line>So he was feeling his oats. He\u2019s out there flexing, thinking, “A-ha! I\u2019m a big guy. I stared them down,” but don\u2019t think he is not scared right now today. He is scared to death. But as I say: Israel cannot get to Iran for a knockout blow. They cannot do at all. (Well, unless they use nukes but they\u2019re not going to do that, not now.) So while Israel is bogging down Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, we keep hearing from the Drive-By Media and our population keeps hearing that we\u2019re “bogged down in Iraq.” Oh, yes, we\u2019re bogged down! The big, mighty United States of America bogged down in Iraq, and you people are being told that we cannot fight multiple wars at once. You just heard Joe Biden say it in our montage in the last half hour. <\/line>“Well, because we\u2019re bogged down in Iraq we can\u2019t deal with Iran, we can\u2019t deal with North Korea.” We are the United States of America, for crying out loud! We haven\u2019t shown one-third, maybe not even that much of the force that we can project. We haven\u2019t, we are fighting a minimalist war in Iraq, and we have been from the get-go because we\u2019re trying to allow the country to rebuild and reestablish. We don\u2019t need to occupy all these places in order to fight wars in them and to show our force and to project our power. We haven\u2019t unleashed our Air Force. We haven\u2019t unleashed our big bombers. We could do ten times what Israel\u2019s doing in Lebanon to Iran if we had to, if we had the will to. Make no mistake about it. <\/line>“But, Rush! But, Rush! It would stir up a hornet\u2019s nest. The Muslims around the world would get mad.”<\/line>We\u2019re talking about the head here. “What about bin Laden?” We\u2019re talking about the regionalized conflict here going on between Israel and Iran. You know what Ahmadinejad\u2019s been saying ever since he came into power: Israel is going to get wiped off the earth. He\u2019s in power to do it. People are dead serious over there. Here\u2019s the point. Much of the ongoing terrorism in Iraq is funded and aided and directed from Iran and Syria, especially Iran, and much of the effort to undermine Iraq\u2019s government is coming from those countries. They have to deal with them. We know that Iran is sending in these IEDs. They\u2019re being manufactured there. That\u2019s been discovered, and if we deal with both Syria and Iran, then Iraq has an even better chance of surviving and becoming what everybody hopes — well, most people hope — that it will become.<\/line><\/p>\n

And have you noticed? I\u2019ve got the story here in the stack. I\u2019ll get to it in detail in a moment, but have you noticed that several of the usual Arab countries have not blasted Israel in the usual terms? In fact, the story I have is they\u2019re worried. The Saudis and a number of others, the Egypts of the world. These guys are not coming out like they usually do. They\u2019re worried about Iran. Everybody is worried about Iran. This guy is a nut case. Iran is not Arab. Iran\u2019s nuking up. Iran\u2019s trying to make sure that it\u2019s the #1 supplier of oil. There\u2019s a lot going on and they are worried to death about that. They know what Iran is doing. They know who\u2019s funding Hezbollah. They know who\u2019s funding Hamas. They know that Syria and Iran are, and they know that Iran and China are linked together, too, and that doesn\u2019t make \u2019em happy. They\u2019re troubled by Iran. They\u2019re troubled by Hezbollah. It\u2019s not that they like Israel. Don\u2019t misunderstand. They fear what Israel will do in response. They also fear for their own survival. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>RUSH: I checked the e-mail during the break, and I got some libs out there that have joined Rush 24\/7, my website, just to have a direct pipeline of e-mail to me. “You just can\u2019t leave Clinton alone, can you? Clinton\u2019s gone. Clinton\u2019s finished. You can\u2019t beat Clinton,” as though everything I have said other than about Clinton has been discredited because I mentioned Clinton. Well, Drudge has this little flashback posted, folks. This is from Sunday, August 4th of 2002, almost four years ago, and this is from the Daily Times: “Former US President Bill Clinton, who many Arabs thought was even more evenhanded on the Palestine question than his predecessors, shocked many when he asserted in Toronto last…”<\/line>Can anybody figure who was the #1 guest at the White House during the Clinton administration? Yasser Arafat. Now, get this quote. Clinton says, he\u2019s in Toronto in 2002, that had Israel been attacked by Iraq or Iran during his presidency, he would have been ready to grab a rifle, get in the ditch and fight and die. Here\u2019s his quote. “Yeah, you know, the Israelis, I mean they know that if the Iraqi and Iranian army came across Jordan River I would personally grab a rifle, I\u2019d get in the ditch and I would fight and die,” Clinton told the crowd at a fund-raising event for a Toronto Jewish charity on Monday. I don\u2019t know if they believed him. The point is everything is about him. He probably wouldn\u2019t do this for America, but he says he would do it for Israel. <\/line>Meanwhile, Arafat is the #1 guest. He didn\u2019t do anything to solve the problem. What did the Oslo accords solve? What did any of this stuff that Clinton and Albright brokered, what did it accomplish? Diddly-squat. Now, from the French News Agency, dateline Cairo: “The spiraling Middle East crisis has exposed deep divisions within the Arab world and forced its leaders into a frank admission of helplessness. After an emergency meeting of Arab League foreign ministers on Saturday, the 22-member bloc admitted it was impotent in the face of Israel\u2019s deadly attacks on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. ‘Don\u2019t ask me what to do,\u2019 the League\u2019s secretary general, Amr Moussa, told reporters after the meeting. Analysts said the huge rift between Western allies such as Egypt and Jordan and radical states like Syria had proved impossible for diplomats to bridge.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Finally we\u2019ve got some honesty that this is not the stuff of diplomats. This is a war, and it\u2019s been going on for I don\u2019t know how long, and diplomats have been trying to stop it and solve it and come up with peace plans for, what, 30 or 40 years? Where are we today? <\/line>“‘The main structure of the Arab League is the idea of consensus, so meetings always come up with the lowest common denominator,\u2019 said Nadim Shehadi, a Middle East specialist with the London-based Royal Institute of International Affairs. Saturday\u2019s meeting ‘was a bit more revealing,\u2019 he said. ‘There are real divisions at this time especially to do with relations with Iran on the one hand and with the United States and Israel on the other.\u2019 … ‘We must take swift steps with sincere intentions to solve the Arab-Arab differences which create an obstacle to reaching a unified Arab position,\u2019 Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Kurbi said. …”<\/line>Moussa: “‘The only way to revive the peace process is to take it back to the Security Council.\u2019 His comments sparked an angry reaction from Arab journalists, but analysts said he was just playing to the gallery.” I mean, even these clowns know that the UN Security Council is worthless in all this. The United States State Department is… Well, I\u2019m sorry. I think it\u2019s useless, too. I think any of these people who want to focus on a diplomatic solution to this are just repeating bad history and not seeing the light. Of course, that\u2019s what they are, diplomats. They\u2019re not supposed to solve problems or they\u2019d be out of work if they actually solved problems. But my friends, the bottom line is as I said. <\/line>In this new round of militia fighting, Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria, Iran, the usual suspects in the Arab world are holding their fire when it comes to condemning Israel. They are, because this is a whole new strategery here that\u2019s broken out. It\u2019s the militia strategery, the insurgent strategery, much as the insurgent strategery we\u2019re seeing in Iraq and have for a year and a half or two, whatever the length of time it has been. So all kinds of things are different here in this time around, but the Drive-By Media, with their tunnel vision and their action line are totally clueless — and these are not even subtleties. These are not even subtleties that you have. You don\u2019t have to read the stitches on a fast ball to be able to see this. They don\u2019t see it because they don\u2019t want to see it, but the bottom line is you spell the problem and the solution here, I-R-A-N.<\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: Before I get into the detailed explanation of why I think this is a gift to the world that is happening now in the Middle East, a little historical perspective first. To set up the historical perspective I\u2019ve got to share with you some audio sound bites. First, this morning in St. Petersburg, Russia. 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