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To: kumar who wrote (1242)	5/31/2007 9:28:54 AM
From: Sdgla	Respond to of 4152

A different question is what would have been the end result of Hezbollah's continued build up on the border had it not gone unchecked and how many lives would have been lost as a result.

To: kumar who wrote (1242)	5/31/2007 2:21:55 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 4152

I guess some one in the region has to answer the question : Was it worth spending 1500 lives to save 2 lives ? Nobody in the region thinks of it that way, for an obvious reason: Hizbullah piled up an arsenal of 20,000 rockets on Israel's border and made daily threats exhorting the destruction of Israel and the genocide of the Jews. Broadcast them all over the world on Al Manar televison. So the question wasn't if a war would start. It was only the question of when, and with what outcome, and whether the rest of Lebanon and Syria would be involved as well. This had been building up for years, since 2000. The Hizbullah raid just provided the direct casus belli. Israel had ignored previous raids or replied in more restrained fashion. They decided not to this time. This is their priviledge and has clearly made Hizbullah think twice. For all the bravado, I notice that there haven't been any more Hizbullah raids since. But there will be another war, and when it comes, some incident will touch it off, but it won't be about the incident.