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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (78116)	7/16/2006 2:03:55 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

>>Yes, I am relieved to see you describe them as actors in their own right, not some kind of automatic reactors to American policy. It makes your prescriptions even more mystifying, however. If Israel is dealing with nutcases who are dedicating their lives to making things worse, how is Israel holding fire even as the Kassams rain on Nahariya and Haifa supposed to help matters? Will the nutcases appreciate the restraint? Do the nutcases have negotiable demands? Or should we take the nutcases as their word? How would you handle them?<< Nadine - I have never described the Arabs/Palestinians/Islamists as automatic reactors to anything. I've consistently insisted that people and nations are responsible for their own actions. I think that if missiles are being shot from southern Lebanon into Israel, it would make sense for Israel to directly attack the people who are firing them. Bomb the people who are firing the missiles, by all means, and/or send in troops to take out their positions. If the Lebanese government won't secure the area, secure it yourself. That's self defense, in the purest definition of the term. It makes a lot less sense to me to first "punish" the Lebanese government for not reigning in Hezbollah before, and to destroy the airport and infrastructure in Beirut. Punishing is not self defense. Do you see the difference? I do advocate returning fire when someone is shooting at you. I don't advocate leveling entire villages because one soldier has been kidnapped. - Allen