U.S. confirms Syrian aircraft fired rockets into Lebanon

a little odd not to have a quote from a Lebanese source isn’t it? I didn’t think Lebanon was US territory.

Ok, so when Israel bombs Syria it’s totally ok and doesn’t heighten tensions at all. But when Syria does a similar cross border airstrike, its considered “a significant escalation?” Pure hypocritical BS.

OH DUH? Why would Assad fire into Lebanon? Because that is where the revolutionaries are. What the revolutionaries doing in Lebanon? To escalate the situation and draw in the West,

WW III picks up

Why is a country half a world away declaring an incursion into an area over which it has no jurisdiction?

Didn’t “W” use a similar tactic when justifying entry into Iraq?

Names change, but warmongering hasn’t.

can somebody please put a tomhawk up Assad and Nasrallah’s butts? syria iran and hezbollah need to be taken out asap

“This constitutes a significant escalation in the violations of Lebanese sovereignty that the Syrian regime has been guilty of. These kinds of violations of sovereignty are absolutely unacceptable.” Nuland’s statement begs the question – So, what are we going to do about it? We can huff and puff all we want, but it only makes us look like impotent blusterers if we do nothing.

The US should pretend Israel did it and forget about it like the USA always does when Israel attacks.
But I do wonder how many Al Qaeda terrorists were killed by Syria in that attack.

Uh yeah. Israel fired into Syria because Syria fired into Israeli territory. I don’t recall Lebanon firing into Syria. A little different.

GregBrew: Nice post. Never mind that country’s own $2 trillion illegal incursion into Iraq and all sorts of other places.

Puzzled: The answer to your question quite is simply “no”. No one can, and no one will.

So if I understand this correctly, when Syria launches a missile into Lebanon against rebels fighting the Syrian Army in a civil way, it is a violation of their sovereignty. But the US may launch missiles at any time into Pakistani territory to bomb “suspected terrorists” and that’s ok? I wonder how they can keep a straight face.

“Israel will use President Obama’s visit on Wednesday to try to persuade the US to carry out air strikes on Syria”
Poor little Israel, real tough against unarmed Palestinians, but no stomach for fighting a real army. A typical bully.

Good grief, the irony (hypocrisy?) is getting thick. The US via drones fires hellfire missiles into Pakistan at its enemies on a regular basis, but that’s not a violation of sovereignty? The State Department would be better off to stay silent, than issuing propaganda statements like that making themselves look stupid. Just who decides releasing that stuff anyway…Kerry? Obama?

It is none of our business. Neither country likes us or our ideology. They only like our MONEY. The U.S. should stay out of their disputes. Not one of our citizens should be put in harms way by our government. The only nation in that part of the world that contributes anything of value to the rest of the world is Israel and they are the only nation that we can call our real friend over there.They are a light in the darkness of the Middle East. Muslims cannot even get along with themselves, nor with anyone else in the world. Anyone not of their “religion” is anathema to them.

So? How is that our business? Did we make Lebanon our 51st state, while I was napping? Quit looking for a reason to jump on Syria. We can’t afford another war!

Syria may be doing the world a favor because the folks bombed may be the same Al Nusrah terrorists who are AQ-affiliated. I think Lebanon will be dragged into this sooner than we expect.

I’m sure Obama will send Assad a reprimand; maybe a severe one!

Lebonon must have made a disrespectfull video about Assad. There you go then.

here we go again.

Of course the U.S., master of hypocrisy, stood by while Israel invaded Lebanon a few years back.