** Private ** wrote: > You fall into the trap of equating everything within Lebanon to > terrorism which could never be further from the truth. This is a > fallacy that Israel and the US want to perpetuate. It gives a blanket > acknowledgement to attack any and everything, and kill anyone they > please. > > Lebanon has said and is on record in saying that they will accept > International assistance to deal with Hezbollah, but Hezbollah is a > multi faceted organisation with a multitude of roles within Lebanon.
And that multitude of roles is exactly why you can't deal with them through normal processes. How can you deal with the military branch of an organization, when the political branch is deeply entrenched in the system? When for instance the military intelligence oversight committee of the parlement is chaired by a member of the political branch of the organization you are trying to suppress? This is similar in nature to the problems faced in dealing with the IRA (Sinn Fein) or the ETA (Batasuna), but on a whole different scale because support for those organisations was limited to a geographical region (Northern Ireland / Basque Country) that was small compared to the country (United Kingdom / Spain), while Hezbollah is everywhere in Lebanon. The obvious difference is that parties in Spain and the UK have always refused to partner with Batasuna and Sinn Fein and form a government, while Hezbollah is a part of the government in Lebanon. The majority of the people in Lebanon do not support or even condone the military branch of Hezbollah. But at the same time, condoning the other branches of Hezbollah makes it impossible to effectively single out the military branch and attack just them. The official position of Lebanon that they will gladly accept assistence in dealing with the military branch is a farce as long as the other branches of Hezbollah can go un unchecked. Lebanon has to make a choice: either Hezbollah is a part of their society, or Hezbollah is not a part their society. That is a choice between a rock and a hard place, because the first option will put them at war with Israel and the second option will mean a return to civil war, but it is the choice that Lebanon has to make. And nobody can make that choice for them. Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:212675 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
