All Hank, all the time.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by taxwonk
It's a shame we have to kill them all, but it is rather their own fault, now, isn't it?

I realize that this response is not to me, but it's consistent with what you've said to and about me.

In the past two weeks, Wonk, you first accused me of treating Arabs as less than human. You backed this up with the notion that I was more critical of US killing of Iraqi civilians than I was of Lebanese or Palestinian civilians. (Yes, it didn't make sense then, either.) Today, you've accused me of being a proponent of genocide.

And this because I believe a nation that has been under persistent military attack for decades -- attacks that are directed at its civilians, and that are motivated by an express, avowed desire by the attacker to destroy that nation -- has a right to defend itself. And that, if in exercising that right, it kills civilians, that is a terrible thing but the blookd of those people is on the hands of those who intentionally and stragetically use those civilians as shields.

When pressed for an alternative, you gyrate between suggesting that Israel, in essence, should simply take it like a man, and that the US should extend the protectorate that has functioned so superbly in Iraq to Lebanon (and presumably to Gaza and the West Bank too, and maybe also Syria and Iran since they are motivating and financing much of the hatred) and, in fact, expand the mission of that protectorate to include mass reeducation of children.

And for disagreeing with that, and recognizing the reality that when you are under attack, you have the right to respond, I am a proponent of genocide? Again, go fuck yourself.

You have essentially taken the position that Hezbollah should be immune from counterattack -- by Israel, by the US, by anyone, because no one can attack them (or build the protectorate that you propose) without civilian deaths. In other words, you propose that we reward a terrorist organization for hiding behind women and children with impunity for their endless, bloodthirsty crimes. Go ahead and kill Israeli civilians and launch rockets into villages -- you'll get away with it, so long as you base your terrorist military in a village.