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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
With all respect to Sidd, whom I love like a brother, talking about destroying entities like Hezbollah is crazy. Defeating, sure, but not destroying. It's a political party that owes its strength and legitimacy to the fact that something like a third of Lebanon supports it. "Destroying" it starts to sound like genocide, which I know Sidd doesn't mean. In this way, Hezbollah is different from a terrorist group like Al Qaeda.
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So we should not have destroyed the Nazis because they enjoyed the support of a lot of Germans?
Seriously... Hezbollah is a military force. So long as it remains one, it has no legitimacy as a political party. Zero. If they disarm, then they regain legitimacy -- but there seems to be no desire to do that.
You cannot be a legitimate part of a national government if you insist on retaining a separate army that is independent of that nation.
