Originally posted by marg6043
Originally posted by Nygdan
you make it sound as if they are somehow using a loophole to seize Lebanon.
How do you know that the intention is not that one,
It doesn't matter if they are clasping their hands together and hoping that it happens, once it did, it'd be a perfectly legitimate reason to
invade, it'd be Lebanon's government, in total, declaring war on Israel.
Just a moment you are telling me that the Lebanese military is at war with Israel?
No, I was continuing the hypothetical idea of '
what if the lebanese government officially sided with hezbollah and sent its troops to attack
israel".
Well remember that the killing of civilians is called collateral damage but not matter how pretty or righteous sound is still Killings
Heck, so is killing enemy soldiers. Killing is killing, I'll agree with you on that. Its not rigtheous or pretty for humans to be killing other
humans. But I certainly don't expect Israel to not fight back because of that.
In my opinion Israel got into Lebano to fight Hezbollah . . . but they wanted the bigger fish . . . to come from Syria and so it could be
linked to Iran
But you must consider, why would they want that? Its because Syria and Iran want to destroy Israel. Essentially, Israel is fighting a proxy of
Iran-Syria right now, similar to the US fighting a proxy of the Soviets in Vietnam, or the Soviets fighting a US proxy in Afghanistan.
So then the full scale war and US involvement could be justified . . . but is not happening
I think that, if there was a secret cabal within the US government that was itching to invade iran and looking for the "proper political
conditions' in which to launch that war, then this is a big giant monkey wrench. Before, it'd be the US fighting against rouge states who's nuke
programmes are in the news every day, now it'd be the US rushing to help 'the jews', which is simply not good press, especially in the arab world.
It makes things more difficult, especially since now the idea of a liberal-democratic lebanon is destroyed.