> Dino wrote: > But that's not the case here as your example is one where the foreign event > is less 'important' than the local one. The war is a foreign event across > the board. >
First - hear me out, before you flame me: What I mean is that the conventional war was initiated by Israel - an accepted democratic government - against an innocent country (according to Israel and the US), occupied by a terrorist organization. Yes, Hezbollah is an aggressive force, yes they kidnapped soldiers, yes they lob missiles, and these small transgressions go on and on. But. Israel's method of dealing with this has been to destroy mutually used infrastructure in some, if not many, cases. That has it's own terror effect. A good analogy is if you know the neighborhood asshat, a menace to all, is home. His latest trick has been to run down a neighbor's kid. So the kid's dad has had enough and he kicks down the front door and goes in shooting. Does the asshat deserve it? Yup. Is the Dad responsible if he hits the Asshat's wife by accident? Yup. Sure, you can argue that as Wife she's complicit, but is she really? Is she an abused spouse? How about the Asshat's kids? So it's a question of ethics - should Israel have kicked down the door shooting or should it have taken a more thoughtful and consensual approach? So, for me, if I'm an editor, that's the primary story: Did Israel do this right or are we seeing the effects of doing it wrong? I say the latter and 80% of Israelis agree with me: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/749604.html The secondary story is Hezbollah, but it's a far second. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:213062 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
