And today's military genius conclusion is : the Lebanese Army, with 72,000 soldiers, requires a significant improvement in basic skills

U.S. continues military aid to Lebanon despite Hizbullah's rising clout

NICOSIA -- U.S. officials said Washington has completed plans for military and security aid to Lebanon throughout 2009. They said the plans were drafted by the Bush administration and endorsed by President Barack Obama.

Ever wonder where our government gets its ideas? What do our people suppose Hizballah is going to do? DISSOLVE?

"Our ongoing support for the Lebanese armed forces remains a pillar of our bilateral cooperation," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said during a three-hour visit to Beirut on April 26.

Bilateral implies we get something. WHAT?

Officials said U.S. Central Command has conducted two surveys of the Lebanese Army and security forces since 2005. They said Centcom determined that the Lebanese military has been hampered by lack of transportation, weapons, ammunition and logistics

"It's regrettable that they [Lebanese security forces] don't have a monopoly on the use of force," former Assistant Secretary of State David Welch said on April 27.

Centcom has also determined that the Lebanese Army, with 72,000 soldiers, required a significant improvement in basic skills. The study was said to have cited marksmanship, urban warfare, logistics, maintenance and command.

So let me get this straight .. while using all our diplomatic skills with Syria to get them away from Iran they committed to MAYBE reducing the number of HAMAS secretaries, and our 'allies' against Hizballah (which is actually the IRGC's foreign legion strike force) in Lebanon, has no transport, ammo or weapons, and even if they did they can't shoot, give orders, or keep their stuff working.

"The most important one was that the Lebanese military needed a lot of help in the military basics, which are not always the most glamorous," Christopher Straub, former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for Near East and South Asian affairs, said. "They needed trucks, Humvees, parts and ammunition more than they needed high-end, expensive weaponry."

Officials have warned that the Obama administration and Congress would review U.S. military aid to Lebanon should the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah win parliamentary elections on June 7.

Oh oh, we may call apress conference and object and express our chagrin

So far, the United States, as part of $410 million in security aid since 2006, has shipped 200 trucks, 41 M-198 155 mm artillery systems and 285 Humvee combat vehicles to Lebanon. Officials said another 312 Humvees would arrive by mid-2009 in deliveries monitored by the new U.S.-Lebanese Joint Military Commission.

"Behind it is all basics -- 12 million rounds of ammo, spare helicopter parts, shoulder-fired rockets," Straub said in a recent interview to the Lebanese daily An Nahar. "We want them to play their role in controlling Lebanese territory. We also want them to deter the terrorist threat."

Officials said Washington was also ready to send night-vision systems and tactical unmanned aerial vehicles. They said the shipments could arrive in 2009.

"The next step is more capability for the air, thinking in terms of not only being able to transport things via air, but have a precise close-air support [capability]," Straub said.

How can anyone take this nation seriously? Almost a billion for Gaza, 90% of which will end up buying Fajr 3 missiles for Hamas, almost half billion for the sinkhole of the Lebanese army, which will NEVER defeat, or be ALLOWED (by Iran) to defeat OR DIMINISH Hizballah, and we are kicking our ONLY ALLY in the shins over accepting a state composed of these same people against thier border, 9 miles wide from this new state to the ocean.

We are going to face disaster of drastic consequences.

Is it any wonder that the Iranian morons think god is on their side?

Look at how we conduct ourselves.