Thursday, June 27, 2013

Lebanese Army: incompetent and unqualified as ever

I never was a fan of the Lebanese Army: embrace of the Army bothers me much more than attacks on the Army.  Not only due to its history of never confronting Israeli occupation and aggression, but it has a history of war on civilians and refugee camps.  And from the military point of view: look at the scene in Abra: for me the incompetence of the Lebanese Army shows everywhere: the fact that the gang leaders all fled; the size and scale of destruction; the ratio of death and injury between the Army and its foes; the slow pace of the operation all point to typical Lebanese Army operation.  That is why I did not need to investigate to know whether this was a purely Lebanese Army operation.  It was.  The incompetence gave it away.