tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post115334921506358452..comments2023-11-03T09:36:22.100-04:00Comments on In From the Cold: Stuck on StupidGeorge Smileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07049707648660651119noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-1153420475458723742006-07-20T14:34:00.000-04:002006-07-20T14:34:00.000-04:00Israel is our North Korea; if, say, they were to g...Israel is our North Korea; if, say, they were to go nuts and nuke Tehran, we should act just like China does: tut-tut-naughty-naughty...(psssst! good going, jews!)<BR/><BR/>Down the road, I can't think there can be peace and quiet in the middle east until the oil-needy nations, which comprise several billion people, decide enough is enough, and form a condominium to firmly administer and equitably share the region's energy deposits.eatyourbeanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10142141654341688097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-1153396652593947852006-07-20T07:57:00.000-04:002006-07-20T07:57:00.000-04:00It's CNN. Need I say more?It's CNN. Need I say more?Kittyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11772310179223546476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-1153393183658886452006-07-20T06:59:00.000-04:002006-07-20T06:59:00.000-04:00cynical joe, your argument above forgets the fact ...<B>cynical joe</B>, your argument above forgets the fact that we are not "protecting" Israelis. Unless, of course, you mean "protecting" Israelis in the sense that John Bolton stood up to the recent silliness put forward by Kofi Annan regarding his "stop the violence" resolution, and vetoed it.<BR/><BR/>Israel is a sovereign nation, that has been attacked by forces that another sovereign nation - Lebanon - have allowed to operate in their midst, unchecked. One side may argue that the Lebanese government is so "proto-democratic" that it cannot root out a cancer in its midst (Hezbollah); and another side may argue that because the Lebanese government didn't attack Israel, why has Israel attacked Lebanon? Still others point to the civilians that have lost their lives in the fighting. Yet all those arguments, in their various flavors, are merely straw men.<BR/><BR/>You and others like you forget that Lebanese people have been active on the blogosphere lately, begging Israel to stay the course and finish what it started: the eradication of the cancer of Hezbollah from their country. The indiscriminate use of Lebanese civilians as human shields by Hezbollah has not stopped this word getting out.<BR/><BR/>Israel is not "[destroying the] liberal proto-democratic [nation of] Lebanon". Instead, Israel has been methodically closing a trap around Hezbollah, so that the cancer that wages war on Israel from within Lebanon can be eradicated. And it's about time.<BR/><BR/>We are not "signing off" on Lebanon's destruction. Israel was attacked on numerous occasions from forces within Lebanon, and Israel, as a member of the United Nations, has a right to defend its borders with all means at its disposal. I believe the resolutions by the UN to that effect even apply to Israel, despite the overwhelmingly obvious bias against Israel in that cockroach-infested building on Turtle Bay.Wanderlusthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06552045133035246679noreply@blogger.com