Position of Lebanon in the 2006 Lebanon War had made comments on television saying that Israel should consider a prisoner exchange with Hezbollah. On 13 July, a prominent Lebanese Druze member of parliament, Walid Jumblatt, criticized Hezbollah in an interview with the French daily "Le Figaro": "Hezbollah played a very dangerous game by kidnapping these two soldiers. ... Israel has withdrawn from Lebanon. These kidnappings took place outside our country's borders. Hezbollah is raising the stakes, with the support of Iran and Syria, which in the past year has become a satellite state of Tehran. … Hezbollah will have to explain itself to the Lebanese. ... [We need
I'd Like to be in Texas for the Roundup in the Spring sung by many of the great cowboy singers, including Buck Ramsey, Don Edwards, and Red Steagall. It tells of cowboys sitting in the lobby of a New York hotel, reminiscing about Chicago, New Orleans, and other exciting places they have been. When they ask a grizzled older cowboy for his opinion, he recalls the sights and sounds of roundups when he was "...foreman on a cowranch—that's the calling of a king." Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. I'd Like to be in Texas for the Roundup