I’m not too impressed with latest headlines like U.S. Mideast Evacuation Effort Criticized and Stranded Americans Isolated. Stranded? By who… other Americans? The American government? I dont think so.
What some people don’t understand is with freedom comes responsibility. Lebanese-Americans (Im just gonna assume that most Americans going to Beruit are Lebanese… call me what you will) are free to come and go as they please.
They’re free to fly in and out of terrorist-run cities and countries; the government won’t stop them. They just need to take their shoes off at the airport and everything will be fine.
The flip side is they’re also free to get their own asses out of Beirut. Don’t come crying to the American tax payer for a one-way ticket out of Shitsville because Isreal opened up a can a whoop-ass. It’s been hot-bed of war for decades and the government (tax-payer) doesn’t owe them a trip home anymore than the government owes me a trip to Barbados.
Onto my point:Â Debbie Schlussel suspects evacuating Lebanese-Americans is harmful to America’s health. She argues that Hezbollah supporters are born and raised right here in the United States:
Of the 25,000 American citizens and green-card holders in Lebanon, at least 7,000 are from Dearborn, Michigan, the heart of Islamic America, and especially Shia Islam America. These 7,000 are mostly Shi’ite Muslims who openly and strongly support Hezbollah. Ditto for many of the rest of the 25,000 that are there.
Many of the 7,000 plus Detroiters in Lebanon are active in Dearborn’s Bint Jbeil cultural center (the Lebanese American Heritage Club also features mostly Hezbollah fans). Bint Jbeil is a Hezbollah-dominated city in the South of Lebanon, a frequent destination of Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, who is very at home there. Bint Jbeil is a frequent source of shellings on Northern Israel.
That last paragraph is a little disheartening. I dont know how many “many” constitutes but I know it’s at least some; and to know that some “Americans” frequent organizations natoriously tied to Hezbollah has me wondering if evacuating these rug-sniffersâ„¢ is not only a waste of our tax-payers money but could even have consequences here at home.