Where are the Christians?

[scandium]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Maybe the Christians are simply sick and tired of the ME, who knows...

Since you are so very sure of that Hizbollah and Hamas shall not be fought against, could you tell us what to do, then? But spare your time if your suggestions are just what the UN is writing in it's papers, or that there shall be negotiations with terror organizations. But any better battle plan is welcomed.

Could you also elaborate what use it could be for Israel to intentionally target Lebanese civilians, and to intentionally destroy harmless private homes, and why it is so sure that these are intentional attacks, not siudeeffects that cannot be avopided when waging war in a heavily urbanized areas? Do you have a better idea of how to reduce Hizbollah's weapon stockpiles, to reduce their freedom of movement, and drive them away from the Israeli border? How to destroy a camp inside an appartmenet house, an ammo stockpile in the backroom of a shop? War is not nice, I agree with Mrs. Reagan. but so far no one has shown up with a better REALISTIC idea of how we could limit the threat that is projected by Hizbollah and Hamas to Israel. The border violations of the past years have been into Israel, not from Israel.

A brief reply please - not one of these twisted long debates about political semantics and thematic sidelines, global warming, the consequences of smoking and epidemic deseases, and hairsplitting definition of terms. The simple question is how to prevent two terror organizations from sending mroe suicide bombers to Israel and firing more missiles into Israeli cities? Your answer?

and keep in mind that since day one on I am opposing the Iraq war as determined as I defend Isreals's action now. No lecturing on how much warmongering and Mohammedan-killing I am.

In the interests of brevity then I will quote that part of the article I posted, two short paragraphs, which nails precisely my own view. As to the solution, that is for those with more power and resources than I have to come up with; I, for my part, only have that which too many others in power seem to be lacking: an interest in events taking place there and a conviction that this has to stop.

Let it be said: Israel has a right to defend herself, a right to
counter-attack against Hezbollah and Hamas, a right to clean out bases from
which Katyusha or Qassam rockets are being fired and a right to occupy land
from which attacks are mounted on her people.

But what Israel is doing is imposing deliberate suffering on
civilians, collective punishment on innocent people, to force them to do
something they are powerless to do: disarm the gunmen among them. Such a
policy violates international law and comports neither with our values nor
our interests. It is un-American and un-Christian.

For my part I am neither American nor particularly Christian, but collectively punishing innocent people sure as hell isn't any value that I subscribe to.