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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
I really would appreciate it if someone would answer my question:
Suppose a radical group in Canada continuously fires rockets at major United States cities, attacks United States citizens and kidnaps United States soldiers while the Canadian government stands by and does absolutely nothing to remedy the situation (They claim they're too weak to effectively deal with the radicals). Let's also suppose that this radical group has some amount of political say-so in Canada. How long do you think it would take the United States to take matters into it's own hands and, given the circumtances, would anyone blame the United States for invading Canada to remove the threat posed to the United States?
A country has to protect it's borders and, more imporantly, it's citizens.
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Canada isn't as weak as Lebanon...not by a long shot. *If* Canada were as weak as Lebanon, then I suspect that attacking them really wouldn't stop the terrorists. What attacking the would do is polarize the Canadians who were sympathetic into siding with the terrorists. After all, when you kill innocent civilians, you tend to make people not like you. You'd think the Israelis would understand that, what with WWII and all.
Would I blam the US for invading Canada in your hypothetical situation? Well that depends on what you mean by "invading". If you mean contacthing the government and demanding that they give up the locations of all known Hezbollah...I mean whatever name the Canadian terrorist group (let's call them the CLO, or Canadian Liberation Front) locations were. If they didn't give them up, then if the US were to send in troops multilaterally with several other nations, and were to only shoot when shot at, then maybe. Sitting back here and bombarding Canada with missles and bombs isn't quite the same thing.
If Israel were interested in protecting it's borders, they might consider trying to make friends with arab citizens of neighboring nations. 100 innocent civilians dead, people with no connections to Hezbollah, is quite counterproductive.