http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/07/25/D8J37I5O1.html - - - He said Hezbollah had expected "the usual, limited response" from Israel to the July 12 cross-border raid, in which three Israelis were killed. ... He said the Shiite group had anticipated there would be negotiations on exchanging the Israeli soldiers for three Lebanese prisoners in Israeli jails, with Germany acting as a mediator as it did before. - - - Doh! Maybe next time they'll think a little harder before committing provocative acts of war. Nevermind, I forgot: It's always the Jews' fault.
Were it not for the four legs of the Giant Hopping Zionist/Neo-Con/Big-Oil/US Military Industrial Complex Quadraped, why, none of this awful fighting would be happening. Poor Hezbullah just wants its trained murderers released from jail so they can ratchet up more violent terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens, with three cheers from the peanut galleries in Brussels and Tehran---is that too much to ask for? Jeez. Nobody cares about the plight of the little guy anymore. Damn, the injustice of it all! On a serious note, let's make a few observations before Bill launches into another pseudo-Jungian attack on straw man Straussian political notions: 1.) Hezbullah started the current conflagration of the conflict by kidnapping and killing Israeli soldiers---in most civilized parts of the world that still qualifies as an act of war, justifying a military response; 2.) They did so (now openly) thinking they'd get Yet Another Opportunity to wheel-and-deal for dangerous criminals that have been locked up in Israeli jails after trying to enter Israel to commit acts of terrorism against its citizens (also arguably an act of war); 3.) The Israelis have had to "restrain themselves" since Gulf War I when they were provoked and showed "the usual, limited response" to which the Hezbullah whack job refers. This "limited response" has been ongoing in the tragicomical farse otherwise known as the "middle east peace process" ever since; 4.) Faced with the possibliity now that their actions may have far more adverse consequences than they previously considered or experienced, they will have to modify their calculus a bit. I know, I know, Bill: Now nothing will stop them from doing Really, Really Bad Things! Well, nothing except getting the crap kicked out of them for a change. As if anything was really stopping them before, or what they were doing before was benign. I know you think Israel is the bully here (and always), but observe objectively if you will please the words of the political representative of Hezbullah himself and consider that those of us who view appeasement of terrorists as a major cause of the ongoing problem in the middle east have at least SOME reason and evidence for what we believe. - Bob _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
