Comments | gaojun: Israel vs. Hezbollah

gaojun

Israel vs. Hezbollah

Jul 14, 2006 14:28

Sure, Israel may be making a heavy-handed, disproportionate response, but I hope my country would do the same if actually invaded by a neighbor. If Israel can destroy Hezbollah, then good riddance. Hezbollah is a cancer in Lebanon and the Middle East, and not even Syria and Iran are coming to its aid. For god's sake, even Saudi Arabia blamed ( Read more... )

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jacobrb02 July 14 2006, 22:42:08 UTC

My thoughts, as someone 19 miles away from all this: hizballah needs to go. It's essential to Israel's security, it's essential to Lebanon's security -- it's even essential to global security.

But many, many, many innocent people are going to die. And that is a tragedy. But it's war.

phatfhorn July 15 2006, 08:21:49 UTC

It's true.

msittig August 5 2006, 01:21:32 UTC

Or it's not.

gaojun August 5 2006, 04:47:53 UTC

Well, I felt this way two weeks ago, but a lot has happened since then. Hezbollah is still a cancer and I want to see it go away, but it's also a reaction to this very sort of thing that Israel is doing, and I'm becoming less and less convinced that bombing the hell out of Lebanon is going to get rid of them. Plus, they're even bombing the predominantly Christian areas north of Beirut now, which are not even sympathetic to Hezbollah. But escalating is what wars do, and now that Hezbollah's firing rockets all over Israel, this isn't going to stop until Lebanon is utterly ruined.

Hi, I'm Alex. Who are you?

msittig August 5 2006, 06:47:54 UTC

My name's Micah, and I'm a pacifist living in Shanghai.