links for 2008-05-12

• Commentary » Blog Archive » Lebanon’s Third Civil War
  Hezbollah also wishes to violently yank Lebanon from its current pro-Western alignment into the Syrian-Iranian axis.
  (tags: middleeast politics waronterror)
• FBI probe nets counterfeit Chinese networking parts | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
  The FBI announced Friday that an investigation into counterfeit network components made in China and sold to the U.S. government has recovered about 3,500 fake devices with a value of $3.5 million.
  (tags: china usa news copyright)
• Marc Ambinder (May 09, 2008) - From The "If McCain Did This" Files
  But if John McCain did this -- if he mistakenly said he'd visited 57 states -- the media would be all up in his grill, accusing him of a senior moment. (GZE2 - scary thing is...he thinks about how many states and then says 57.)
  (tags: politics election)