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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
Will, you said "'terrorism' is war made by those unable to make war."
if they are unable to make war, then terrorism cannot be war. If terrorism IS war, then they certainly can make war. I fail to see how this makes you so right.
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I forgot to put the first war in quotations. War is made by those nations or organizations with capable arms. Terrorists, as the word has become, are unable to wage real war (tanks, planes, etc.), so they resort to less orthodox means of attack.
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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
If we were the leaders of two neighboring countries and you kidnapped a soldier of mine, you commit an act of war and I will attack you. Unless you think that a government should passively roll over when it's soldiers are kidnapped. If Israel kidnapped a hezbollah soldier, they'd still be starting it, wouldn't they? at least you would think so.
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Ah, but the kidnapping didn't happen in a vacuum. You act as if there was a great time of peace or something before the kidnapping. That's not true. It's been an ongoing conflict for the past 20 years. The kidnapping was a response to the continuing presence of Israel in the Shabaa Farms and for the Sept 2003 Israeli bombing of Southern Lebanon as a response to Hezbollah firing anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli aircraft as a response to the Israeli occupation and kidnappings.
I'm sorry you're only able to look back one year, but this whole conflict is as old as we are. The 2006 Israel-Lebanon Conflict was started by Israel's blocade, invasion, and bombing campaign that claimed over 1,200 lives and displaced almost a million Lebanese. You know a lot of Southern Lebanon is still uninhabitable because of unexploded cluster bombs.