Isreal and American support for violence.

[thcbongman]

I brought up France due to the fact that they did give Israel nuclear technology and created the imbalance in the region. I agree that war isn't the best option at times but unfortunately when you have all your neighbors calling for your destruction...........

I kind of look at it this way also, why did Hezbollah have to cross the border, kill 3 Israeli soldiers and kidnap two others? When ya get kicked in the knees enough you eventually start swinging back.

Have a good one!:thumbsup:

This wasn't an uncommon occurance. Hezbollah has done it in the past, and Israel and them exchanged prisoners in the past. Each side captures their troops all the time. I don't believe this incident is enough to provoke an offensive that spillovers to a country which really can't do anything about this situation. From 1975-1990 Lebanon was at civil war. This was a country that is basically damage goods that was working towards some democratic reforms. They don't have the capability themselves to disarm Hezbollah, which is I'm assuming Israel figured out.

However, I don't really like the premises that you have to destroy a country to destroy a terrorist group. That's not setting up good precedent for the future. Now any country can come and say "hey there's a terrorist group in your country, they're blowing up our people and infrastructure, we'll attack. Already Israel has responded in a similar way America has, using the same justification for terrorism. What would you think if China used terrorism has an excuse to invade Taiwan? Or India had enough of the terrorism in Kashmir and invaded it?

It's a concept that can be easily abused and twisted.

thcbongman Reviewed by thcbongman on 08-03-2006. Isreal and American support for violence. I hate hypocrisy and it would seem to me that the US is guilty as hell right now. The US goverment says "We want a ceasefire in the Middle East" but then they are still supplying Isreal with weapons. Am I the only one who believes that if America wants peace in the east they should not supply anyone with weapons? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=397838&in_page_id=1811&in_page_id=1811&expand=true Rating: 5