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To: jcky who wrote (51369)	10/12/2002 1:56:10 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Again, you have taken Hizbullah's action out of context within the Lebanon war. Americans had no business sending troops into Lebanon to safeguard Israel's misguided, miscalculated, and misplaced foreign policy of pre-emptive strike and regime change in Lebanon. Well, it's a free country. You can take Hizbullah's side in the conflict if you choose, and say that we had it coming. But that is a ludicrous summation of the Lebanese Civil War. The Marines were sent to enforce a supposed peace deal to end the civil war and got caught up in Christian - Muslim fighting; the Israelis were not involved. To listen to you one would suppose that Lebanon was in fine shape until one day the Israelis decided to invade for no particular reason. The Israelis only got involved after Arafat had seized Southern Lebanon, turned it into "Fatah land", and used it as a base of operations against Israel.