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Originally Posted by Ustwo
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Alright, I was being a bit sarcastic, but I'm sure you get my point. It seems the interest of the populace of Lebanon isn't on everyone's minds. My sympathies are evenly divided, going to the civilians of Lebanon and Israel.
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
I think you might be over reaching your bounds here speaking for the civilians of Lebanon. In light of the attacks the 'government' of Lebanon says they MIGHT use the army in southern Lebanon to remove Hizbollah. They are getting bombed, people are dying and they might do something. Thats spiffy. Of course they are so weak they can't so its a moot point, odds are the army (70k) would split and we would have another civil war. Israel is attacking a terrorist nation with a veneer of respectibilty in the form of a powerless democratic government, but as usual the same suspects are on the side of the terrorists.
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Israel is a terrorist nation, so I fail to see where this sense of moral high ground comes from. The difference, of course, is that the Lebanese government has almost no power. Israel, on the other hand, is quite powerful. If worse came to worse, I suspect that Israel could hold off Iran Syria and Egypt at once. I hope that never happens, mind you, but if it did Israel would be able to do a lot of damage. Israel even has nuclear capabilities.
Hezbollah needs to be stopped, but there are better ways than bombing civilian targets and getting nothing but collateral damage.