RedPhoenixxx wrote:
I'm not sure I implied that.
You didn't, Paulsol did. That was my response to him.
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I support their right to defend themselves in a proportional and measured manner, and for it to be held to the same standards we would hold any other country.
Proportional and measured? That's a joke. Punishment and retribution for terrorist acts and against the groups and states that support them should be swift, brutal and overwhelming.
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I don't think Israel is in a state of permanent "war" with those groups. Obviously, Israel should defend itself when attacked by those groups, but I don't think the mere existence of those groups in other countries allows Israel to wage war on them.
Of course not. You're the definition of a European apologist.
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Lebanon doesn't sponsor Hezbollah. Maybe instead of laughing you should do a bit of research into the political system that exists there. Hezbollah threatens Lebanon ten times more than it threatens Israel. It's an Iranian pawn, not a Lebanese one.
They operate from Lebanon. The Lebanese allow them to stay there.
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Firstly that's ********* secondly so what?
I believe the cliche is "If you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem."
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The problem with all these similes is that they don't reflect the entirety of the situation. You can't take a one-sided, 10 second snapshot and say "well this is the situation". The "situation" has been an ongoing saga for 60 years now. For your comparison to work, we would have to say: imagine Lyon used to be part of Switzerland, and then it was given independence by people outside it, so Frenchies came from all over the world to settle in Lyon, so all the Swiss in Lyon fled to neighbouring countries, then there was lots of wars involving all neighbouring states, then French bombed Switzerland to the ground and blockaded, etc, etc... It would be a fucking analogical nightmare, and even then it wouldn't do it justice...
They're only nightmares if you try to create equivalencies, which asking how your country would react in the given situation doesn't do. When you try to create the ideal equivalent analogy, anything breaks down. When you deal with reality, that Israel has been the victim of some 10,000 explosions since 2005 launched across their border from places like Gaza, and consider what your country's reaction would be in similar circumstances, you either tuck tail and negotiate (like France does with its rioting muzzies) or you kick their asses, disproportionately, back to the stone age.
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But most of the killing, the vast majority of the killing, almost to a 10-1 ratio, is done by Israel. That's a strong indicator in my books. For all the hate-filed rhetoric of Hezbollah, their KP is ten times lower than Israel's. So what, are ineffective rocket attacks really that much worse than bombing a city flat? Can you really compare the 25 people killed by Hamas rockets in 5 years to the 1385 (including 400 children) people killed in the 3 week Gaza offensive? Just for one moment, imagine it was the other way round... Would you really justify the killing of 1385 Israeli in 3 weeks because they had killed 25 Palestinians in 5 years? How is that anything other than hypocrisy?
So you're bemoaning a ratio that is caused by poorly armed terrorists attacking a state of the art military? Seems to me like the blame should maybe go to the people not smart enough to stop throwing rocks at tanks & helicopters.
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These groups do not receive money from a "region". I don't know why you feel the need to assimilate countries, ideologies, or religious groups which have nothing to do with each other. Lebanon is not Iran. Saudi Arabia is not Iran. Is it laziness? Lack of intellectual capacity? Dislike of Muslims? I'd wager it's the first one, but I'm beginning to have my doubts...
You are wrong. Categorically. Hamas is a state funded organization also funded by rich individuals in the Saudi royal family and wealthy businessmen all over the region. Hezbollah is a state funded organization also funded by rich individuals in the Saudi royal family and wealthy businessmen all over the region. Saudi Arabia is one of the most socially oppressive regimes on the planet that just happens to talk more friendly in public than Iran does. The Wahabi clerics hate America's influence in the world and they only allow the royal family to maintain power while it supports the clerics and their fundamentalist teachings.
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Finally, my real problem in all this is that if other countries used the same tactic and justifications as Israel, we'd have WWIII tomorrow.
This falls apart because in the real world it would assume that other countries also use the same tactics and antagonisms that the stupid-assed countries and terrorist groups in the ME use. As such, it it total "******************
EDIT: so that's how you spell ********
Edited, Jun 8th 2010 11:32am by MoebiusLord