It is obvious that Hezbollah is nothing more than a foreign controlled army occupying Lebanon against the wishes of the majority of Lebanon's legitimate government.

If you are Iran or Syria, what better way to have a war with Israel than to launch it from someone else's soil and let that country suffer the effects?

Matt

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Hmmm...tragically reminds me of how "well" the UN did to control saddam hussien.
To me - just another example of how ineffective the UN is.
Only the most gullible people actually believed the UN would stop the weapons going to Hezbollah. Annnd - how these same people will not consider this when another outbreak happens...much easier to blame Isreal.

ya i am not getting what the UN is doing now adays

other than watching bad people do bad things

and alot of the world die

seems to me they are just a body to get together and say YOUR BAD .......then do nothing about it

It's worked before - the arab governments have used the palestinian peasants as a puppet army since '73.

I like tjhis line;

if israel decides to attack again? gee whiz..

and of course I am not surprised ..the resolution to disarm Hezbollah was never implemented as required by the vaunted UN…so of course they will replace stocks they have exhausted…

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So the state planners must arrogate to themselves the right to manipulate any sector of the economic system if the good of “society” or the “general welfare” is paramount.

Ipso- if the rights of the individual get in the way, the rights of the individual must be sublimated.

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Let's see now, is this in any way comparable to the FACT repeat "FACT" that the majority of the american people want us out of IRAQ, but the MAJORITY of the US GOVERMENT (Senate and EXecutive About two hundred people more or less ) want us to stay??? How about the Lebanese PEOPLE???? As I remember, they were FOR the Hebollah during tyhat operation.

Perhaps they were since they were defending Lebanese soile against another Israeli ininvasion, but then again Hezbollah precipitated the invasion to begin with...

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Don't startle him, Joe - it's almost full!

And this has anything whatsoever to do with the OP in what way??

uhmm you might want to re-think that the majority of people in Lebanon, even the arab league were not in favor of Hezbollah’s intrusion into Israeli territory and snatching of its soldiers...once the inevitable Israeli response came and the media got to work, that changed...those are 2 different things and if I recall amnesty intl also condemned Hezbollah for atrocities as well.....and frankly Hezbollah issue funds ( from iranian funds) to peoples whose homes were destroyed after the response, but are under the gun...they are crowded into shelters that they ( Hezbollah ) know are going to be targeted so they can run up the "civilian” causalities total to buy world outrage when in fact they are nothing more than human shields who would rather get out from under……..you think the average Lebanese citizen wants this crap? Sorry, aside from the Hezbollah enclaves , I don’t think so.

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No individual can plan his own existence in their view.

So the state planners must arrogate to themselves the right to manipulate any sector of the economic system if the good of “society” or the “general welfare” is paramount.

Ipso- if the rights of the individual get in the way, the rights of the individual must be sublimated.

The Road to Serfdom
FA Hayek (interpretation)


Mortgage Backed Security survivor

are you reading the wrong thread?

No, it really isn't comparable at all.

If the US army were lunching attacks into Iran from Iraq, and the Iranians retaliating against the Iraqi population, them maybe there would be a comparison.

Matt

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hiziballah must be destroyed completely

Yea good luck with that.

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The problem is that the only people who care whether lebanon is ever again a legitimate entity are in no position to effect any change there.
Lebanon's christian community is not a majority in the country. Lebanon's muslim's are more in favor of iranian control than not. Israel would love a legitimate democratic state of lebanon but we all saw what happended the last time Israel tried to affect change there. The Iraq disaster has destroyed any ability the US might have had to influence events there.

I just don't see good things happening in Lebanon in the forseeable future.

If Israel would love to see a strong democratic state of Lebanon they shouldn´t have done almost everything to destroy the democratic governement of prime minister Siniora but instaed have worked through international channels to enable him to stand up to Hisbullah. I also recall promises pointing in that direction by the Bush administration.
That the rats are coming out of their holes again in a situation were the lebanese economy is largely destroyed due to Israeli bombing and blocades is not surprising.
Lebanese sunnites are in the majority no particular friends of HIsbullah and Iran and you´re also leaving out that Hisbullah has now formed an alliance with the christian party of the former anti-syrian civil war general Michel Aoun

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