‘Roadmap to Chaos’ still intact, says Hezbollah leader
Jewish World Review August
15, 2006 / 21 Menachem-Av, 5766
Just hours after the United Nations pledged to send peacekeepers
to Lebanon, the terror group Hezbollah pledged to send warkeepers to the
same war-torn nation.
At a press conference in Tehran, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah
said that warkeepers were needed because the U.N.-imposed ceasefire threatened
to put an end to the fighting in Lebanon, adding, "And if that happens,
we're out of business."
Mr. Nasrallah said that, contrary to news reports showing Lebanon embroiled
in conflict, "The war there is actually very fragile and peace could break
out at any moment."
He called upon other nations, such as Iran and Syria, to join Hezbollah
in an international warkeeping effort.
"Hezbollah is committed to the warkeeping effort, but we cannot go it
alone," he said. "What is needed is an international force of warkeepers
who are committed to blowing lots of things up."
Mr. Nasrallah said that nations in the region should stop focusing on
the peace process and should concentrate on the war process instead.
However, he was dismissive of critics who claimed that his vaunted "roadmap
to chaos" was now in tatters as a result of the U.N.'s ceasefire.
"The roadmap to chaos is completely intact," he said. "I will not rest
until we have a permanent, lasting war in the region."
Asked to respond to Mr. Nasrallah's comments, Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert said, "Well, his honesty is refreshing, I guess."
Elsewhere, terrorists abandoned plans to attack the Ted Williams Tunnel
in Boston, arguing that it was falling down on its own.
JWR Contributor Andy Borowitz, the first-ever recipient of the National
Press Club's Award for Humor, is a former president of the Harvard Lampoon,and
a regular humor columnist for Newsweek.com, The New Yorker, The New York
Times and TV Guide. Recognized by Esquire magazine as one of the most powerful
producers in television, he was the creator and producer of the hit TV
series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and producer of the Oscar-nominated
film Pleasantville.
© 2006, Andy Borowitz
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