Originally posted by Maverick
Thank you rolex for tacitly admitting one of the things I have stated repeatedly. There is no seperation between hezbolla and lebanon. They are now one and the same. You claim they are a militia "defending" lebanon. The media treats them like a seperate force that lebanon is unable to control. I look at the fact that the lebanese PM is trying to negotiate as the agent of hezbollah and implies that he has the authority to do so. Apparently hezbollah agrees as there has been nothing from the organization that I have seen that says they object to the lebonese PM negotiating for them and will not abide by whatever agreement he makes.
Since this makes lebanon and hezbollah one and the same I don't see where they have a damn thing to say about the Isreali's hitting targets inside lebanon whne their "militia" as you called it is randomly rocketing civilian areas of Isreal.
I see the UN situation is only used when it serves your agenda and not when it is regarding the shebaa farms.
Frankly, I think the un should depend on someone other than the US for troops in the middle East and in some other areas. It's time france and some other countries took up the slack and started doing more for global efforts. There wasn't very much support when the US called for the un resolutions to be upheld in iraq, so clean up the mess in lebanon on your own then.
Mav,
I don't think anyone has ever said Hezbollah and Lebanon are separate. They and Lebanon say they are a militia, not me. The only agenda I have, Mav, is that there are two sides to every story. I have said over and over on many topics that understanding both sides is the only way to find possiblities of realistic solutions. Israeli politicians, hezbollah leaders and Lebanese politicians are all responsible. No party is blameless.
Other than packing up Israel and moving it to South America or Texas, I don't see any long-term peaceful solution. No foreign intervention is going to solve anything, it just exacerbates and creates proxies for the problem, because the root cause is never addressed.
Before Israel was created, all the land belonged to someone else. That is what it all distills down to.
The French and the US both left Lebanon after the bombing of their respective barracks. I'll bet over half of the people here don't realize that 58 French soldiers were killed in an attack occuring almost simultaneously to the attack on the Marine barracks in 1983.
Reagan figured it out - get out of Lebanon and no Americans would be killed or hurt there since their presence was only aggravating the situation and not contributing anything toward a solution. The old, "Tell me again why we are there?" trick. We figured it out in Vietnam also, eventually.
I would say it's another case of the US media winding up Americans to fever pitch about something they have no stake in.
