Uncategorized 22 Jul 2006 06:51 am
And Now A Text-Massage From The Swedish Prime Minister
OTB reports that the Swedes were first to have their folks out of Lebanon, thanks to their use of text messaging on cellular phones. Not sure how they had the numbers of all their citizens, but still…
I do wonder if these might not have been actual blue-eyed, blonde Swedes in that case, however. My understanding is that a large part of the overwhelming number of U.S. expatriates that required evacuation consisted of Lebanese-born who held a U.S. as well as a Lebanese passport. This segment of the rescued were not vacationers, but permanent residents of Lebanon - many of them Hezbollah sympathizers, in fact.
If we’d had only 8,000 or so to evacuate rather than the 25,000 or so including these “sunshine jihadis,” perhaps our effort would have been equally as efficient.
Still, I don’t believe there were that many complaints.
