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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I find it truly odd that you think most Lebanese have a choice about what Hezbollah does, and that you think many of them ought to die because they did not do more to stop Hezbollah. You sound like Ward Churchill.
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I think its impossible to look at any one part of the larger conflictr here in a vaccuum. I think that the combined populaces of the Arab world have had multiple choices and chances over 60 years to come to grips with Israel and they chose to stay the course with the desired goal of destruction of the same. I think Lebanon and the Lebanese people have ceded their country to Syria and Hezbollah and pretending that there is some independent Lebanese government that is caught in the cross fire here and wants peace is not reality.
Offer a peace plan, short of Israel militarily destroying Hezbollah (which reality tells us will likely involve civilian casualties), that could work. I don't think you or anyone else can because the only plan that works for the mass of the greater ME is one that doesnt' include Israel, which I think that we agree, is not a tenable solution.
