Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (238203)	7/29/2007 4:50:41 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

For heavens sake, don't you listen to yourself? Hizbolla kidnaps three soldiers to counter the hundreds of Lebanese prisoners held by Israel and fires unguided fireworks explosives and Israel invades Lebanon and kills tens of thousands of Lebanese and destroys their entire country with US provided state-of-the-art cluster bombs. "Fires unguided fireworks explosives?" Just a little game, eh? What country in this world would accept this and not respond? Especially when the people doing the firing have repeatedly said that the country being fired upon ought to be eliminated and have engaged in a military buildup on your border? "To counter the hundreds of Lebanese prisoners held by Israel"? How were those prisoners captured in the first place? Did Israel capture them by entering Lebanon and taking them? Were they just innocent ol' Lebanese, snatched for no reason? Did you happen to catch that documentary on Palestinean prisoners in Israeli jails, how they were treated? Ever seen one on how Israeli prisoners are treated? "Kills tens of thousands of Lebanese"? Try about 1200 Lebanese and about 200 Israelis (including military dead on both sides), plus about 4000 on each side wounded to one degree or another. "destroys their entire country"? Yeah, there was plenty of damage done, but for the most part it was Hezbollah dominated areas. Does any of this justify how Israel went about doing what they do? No. Does it somehow justify what Hezbollah did? No. But your exaggerations don't exactly bolster your credibility when you comment on the situation. And you exaggerate all the time when you comment on it. And it isn't just you, unhappily. If it was, I wouldn't bother commenting on it. When one side continually exaggerates and, frankly, lies, the other side is pushed to do the same. And the situation becomes more polarized and unresolvable. Just because Hezbollah claims something doesn't mean you have parrot it and treat it as gospel.