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To: Bilow who wrote (197904)	8/18/2006 10:49:59 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Hawkmoon; If you want to know what really happened in Lebanon, click here: Sounds like what happens in a war. Mean, bloody, and very nasty.. especially when your enemy is better armed than orginally foreseen... Armed by foreign countries seeking to establish their OWN PROXY MILITARY FORCE that is even more powerful than the military of the sovereign state, Lebanon. The first new rule is that Israel can't just roll over a neighbor. The second new rule is that Israel can't bomb a neighbor without having its own cities rocketed. In short, the region has reached a certain sort of stability. Has it? The Lebanese government has technically ceased to exist as a representative of the Lebanese people (certainly the Lebanese Christians). If anything, the illegal arming and training of Hizbullah as a force more powerful than the Lebanese army has possibly set the stage for another civil war. Because do you really think the Lebanese Christians will be content to have their country turned into a puppet state for Syria and Iran? It will take time, they will have to build their forces, but civil war is likely inevitable, or the Christians will find themselves facing a mass exodus from their homeland. And if Hizbullah is more heavily armed that the Lebanese army, what's to prevent Hizbullah from lauching future Katyusha attacks against Israel? Because that is their vow.. to destroy Israel. And to retreat from that vow would mean they would lose credibility. I don't call this stabilizing.. Hawk