Hello and welcome to Colonial Outcast, a podcast where we conduct analytical commentary on colonial affairs, foreign affairs, and military action, all from an anti-imperialist perspective that will make your uncle increasingly pissed off and uncomfortable.

Some of the things we say almost make too much sense. All empires fall. If you're

hearing some background noise, that is the ambient sounds of Beirut for our backing track for this

episode. So since this is a military-oriented episode, I'll say that my name is Greg Stoker.

I'm a former U.S. Army Ranger who did four

deployments to Afghanistan under the Obama administration's neoliberal warlord policies,

which turned me into an anti-war. Activists. Today I'm joined by, after a long hiatus,

co-host Mark Wayne and Matthew Enderline, a former U.S. Army Infantry Officer who is also disaffected by United States foreign policy.

He's coming to us from Beirut, which is where you're hearing all these ambient sounds in the background.

On this day, October 2nd, thank you so much for joining us.

Great to be back.

All right.

Good to you, Matt.

Yep, good to see you.

And hey, real quick, y'all, we are on Patreon for extra content once a week.

There's a live Q&A, an exclusive Friday, hour-long segment satirizing the absurdity of the modern condition, and various occasional op-eds and essays.

We are new and trying to build out this into a media

platform and get everybody paid for their contributions. Anyways, that plug is over with,

and we're going to just jump right in. So today we're going to be talking about Israel's

quote, unquote, limited operation into Lebanon.

What does it mean?

What can it achieve?

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