This is about regime change in Lebanon - at any price - including Israeli lives.
This is obvious. The Israeli people are sick and tired of the constant war and death that surrounding terrorist factions inundate them with day after day for years. Hezbollah is worth destroying .. NOT at the cost of massive civilian deaths- remember the Israelis are the one's telling people where they are about to bomb before they attack in order to spare civilian lives- NOT Hezbollah.
Well why do you talk as if Islam was the only threat to mankind?
That implication comes from your own head. Of course there are many threats to mankind. Bush isn't going to nuke anybody unless he really has to. Bush is not a fanatic (yes, he is a conservative, which means *gasp* he does stupid things like veto stem cell appropriations and crap- but he isn't fucking insane, and has no desire for death whatsoever, whereas Islamofacsists crave death above practically anything- and NO, NOBODY is insinuating that ALL muslims are fascist/extemists/terrorists/etc).
Let's not forget the absurdity of the situation.
That's right, Israel is under a constant attack from terrorists, and they APPEASE THE TERRORISTS rather than DESTROY THEM (pretty absurd! hopefully they are demonstrating a rational change)
True, there are some zionist terrorists, but they are the enemy of Israel just as much as Islamic terrorists.
Give me a moderate democrat to choose from and I'd launch Bush in a minute.
I'd probably agree with this, but I would want to make sure the democrat wasn't going to cut and run in Iraq, or appease terrorists in any way.
By the way would USA attack anything if it weren't for the oil or to stop the "communist threat"?
Because terrorists have ATTACKED US, declared WAR/JIHAD on us, and are actively and resourcefully attempting to KILL us.
DUH!
including the outright incompetence in the handling of Afghanistan and Iraq
What, attacking terroristic safe havens? Simply the act of STANDING UP to the terrorists is more than any Democrat would have done, I imagine. Even if they weren't optimal military procedures, they were effective and competent strategic decisions.
Anyway, we would certainly not bomb their civilian airports or kill innocent citizens. Rather we would seek a multilateral solution in conjuction with the UN and NATO.
Haha. The UN is useless (obviously), and Israel did not intentionally kill anybody innocent. They attacked civilian airports and transportation as a means to thoroughly destroy Hezbollah's capabilities in Lebanon.
War is only a last resort - not the first option.
As if this is the first time Israel has tried to handle Hezbollah.
The UN passed a resolution that said Hezbollah was to be disbanded and disarmed. Lebanon couldn't do it because Hezbollah owns their government, the UN does nothing except pass resolutions and thus took no effective action, so Israel really IS acting according to the UN- and this IS a last resort, because nothing has changed since the UN resolution passed in the 80s.
has the potential to draw into it the surrounding regions
THANK GOD FOR THAT... let's destroy the power center of EVIL TERRORISTS... Why is it such an impossible thought that we might attempt to stop people actively trying to kill us (particularly if you are an Israeli!) ???
enough political ranting for now...
