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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
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.
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Then it seems clear that what Israel must do is undertake a serious, house-to-house invasion of South Lebanon, in which Israelis take the significant losses which are part of urban combat. They must conquer Lebanon utterly and completely, and be prepared to occupy it for a decade or two. Again.
The US will have to do the same thing for Baghdad. We did level Fallujah, but this presumably would be different because literally destroying Baghdad would not be an option.
