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I don't think that the Lebanese Army is resupplying Hezbollah now. The Lebanese Army just gave them all these weapons beforehand. While the US stupidly wants to live with the fiction that the Lebanese Army is not Hezbollah, the reality is that what Hezbollah wants it gets in Lebanon.

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So true

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Typical of the Pentagon and the State Dept: "Lebanon has an army. We'll give them weapons and they will work to advance our interests."

That didn't work too well with Chang Kai Shek and the Kuomintang in China after WW2. Much aid to them wound up in the hands of the Communists.

It didn't work too well in Afghanistan either. How stupid can you be, just handing military aid and deadly weapons like it was Halloween candy.

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.... and they are now withholding 20,000 artillery shells from Israel.

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Bernie Sanders attempt to embargo arms for Israel was defeated yesterday with 19 other Democrat senators and no Republicans voting for this. Indeed January can not come quick enough.

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Everything has serial numbers but I’ll give you a fourth possibility- stolen or “lost” from the Iraqi army and shipped via pro-Iranian militias in Iraq through Syria.

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Missed that one. Thanks

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There are maybe some arms, too, knocking around from Obama's destruction of Libya. But, yes, basically you probably can't walk in Afghanistan without tripping over abandoned US military equipment.

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The Russian-Hezbollah connection is evidence of how standing up to one evil regime impacts all evil regimes.

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