Current Israeli/Lebanese conflict

[dirtydan]

Seriously though, Israel has more than a right, its a duty to go after these Hezbolla guys. In war there are no innocents, in other words it is Hezbolla who started this thing. They (Hezbolla) are ramdomly dropping bombs, no warnings, and thats OK!!! Israel drops warnings leaflets to leave, then bombs, and thats not OK!!!? Give me a break, so how do you defend your house ???? I am 100% OK with the elimination of Iraq, Iran, and the rest that hate the Jewish, and the Christian people, lets get them before they get us. That is just sick to think that unprovoked attacks don't deserve to be responded to. Lebanon is just as guilty as Hezbolla, they are not innocent. Sorry, people die in wars, get over it. But, this isnt war, this is sissy punk terrorists that fight like chickens.
This is not the mainstream Muslims doing this but a bunch of fanatical extremists.
The Israeli are flying hundreds of sorties per day and unfortunately errors can occur. FYI - The allies in WW2 did the same thing when they destroyed complete German cities from the air, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent Germans.

The arguements that the Bush administration is spinning that Israel is a democracy and democracies have the right to defend themselves. And that is bullshit to an extent as it suggests that only countries with democracies are legitimate. In the real world that's pure bunk. All countries regardless of how their government came to power have the same rights, whether we like it or not. Furthermore the arguement used for Israel thus can be used for Lebanon. Lebanon is a democracy and it is a country that is under attack, a viciously so.

I don't think anyone here would deny Israel has the right to defend itself. I really think the problem is how the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) is going about it. If they limited their attacks to the launch vehicles of these rockets and missiles, then I for one would be more supportive. However rampaging into Lebanon and bombing the piss out of cities is going much too far.

And yes, Hezbollah attacks are indeed wrong. They have killed innocent civilians and quite frankly I am naive enough to hope that war crimes are charged against the leaders of Hezbollah as well as ranking officers in the IDF and top members of the Israeli government.

As for Lebanon, it's military has been non-existant in all of this. The Israelis complain the Lebanese army hasn't done a thing to stop Hezbollah, which as far as I know is true. Just the same, the Lebanese army hasn't done anything to counter the Israeli incursions, for which I think the IDF ought to happy about as that is not leading to bigger conflict. However I don't doubt for a moment there are those in the IDF and Israeli government that would love to lay a pasting on the Syrian military at this time. And with many of the rockets Hezbollah is launching coming from Syria, there stands the excuse to attack.