Originally posted by EsotericIs the money going to "our Lebanese brothers" or to Hezbollah ? Diplomatic frasing can reveal a lot in these circumstances. However, interpreting this language is a daunting and challenging task ......
Actually Saudi Arabia and UAE are providing around $90 million in aid to Lebannon and Kuwait denounced Israel's "Barbaric Agression". Could make for interesting times...
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE to aid Lebanon
Monday Jul 17 07:43 AEST
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates have pledged $US90 million ($A120 million) to help Lebanon after its face of this barbaric aggression and ease their suffering", according to the state media.
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,19833510%255E912,00.html
Israel won't rule out land invasion.
By Nadim Ladki in Beirut
18jul06
ISRAEL refused to rule out a ground invasion of Lebanon as its warplanes intensified air strikes today, killing at least 23 people.
"At this stage we do not think we have to activate massive ground forces into Lebanon but if we have to do this, we will. We are not ruling it out," Moshe Kaplinsky, Israel's deputy army chief, told Israel Radio.
He said the offensive would end within a few weeks, adding that Israel needed more time to complete "very clear goals".
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Meaning: We plan to go in, but not now.
Originally posted by slimjimAh yes, the "might is right" argument. In which case it is the right, nay duty, of every coutry to arm themselves as well as possible, North Korea included.
Yes Israel should go in and crush Hezbollah. If anything I can be amused by the whiny little Euros and their bashing of Israel. The same usual culprits will flood the forums bashing Israel. I suggest if you feel so strongly about helping Hezbollah destroy Israel catch a plane and join up.
Originally posted by sasquatch672I hope you aren't putting me in the category of people who are anxious to go to a war that they don't have to fight? I've done my time and if Uncle Sam would let me I would take my 50+ year old behind and go over there instead of my sons.
This is what I don't understand about you guys. How you can morally equate a free, democratic republic with a "society" like North Korea, where millions of people are starved because of the government's central planning policies; with Iran, who has elected a president bent on the destruction of an entire people; with Iraq, whose megalomaniac, homicidal ...[text shortened]... of the war. I don't. But there are far, far greater evils in the world than the US.
Originally posted by sasquatch672Theres a lot of those Democrat Senators who also have the same affliction. I say vote all of them out of office.
No no. Not at all. There is, however, a whole subset of Re-poob-li-cans who think the war is fine and dandy, just not for their son. The banker types, soccer moms - or "security moms", as they're now being called.
Israel has tested the water by crossing the Israeli-Lebanese border a couple of times, attacking a certain Hezbollah stronghold and retreating right after it.
The most remarkable thing is that neither Russia, nor France, nor China has condemned these actions.
Apparently it is not just the US, the UK and Germany supporting Israel in its attempts to disarm and drive out Hezbollah from the South of Libanon.
Or did I miss something ?
Originally posted by ivanhoeNo you didn't miss anything.
Israel has tested the water by crossing the Israeli-Lebanese border a couple of times, attacking a certain Hezbollah stronghold and retreating right after it.
The most remarkable thing is that neither Russia, nor France, nor China has condemned these actions.
Apparently it is not just the US, the UK and Germany supporting Israel in its attempts to disarm and drive out Hezbollah out of the South of Libanon.
Or did I miss something ?
Originally posted by sasquatch672I'm not condoning war at all. Nor am I condoning dictators who torture their own people. But if the argument is to be boiled down to might is right, that takes all morality out of the equation. And that has to work both ways - the US cannot claim to be all about freedom, and yet maintain Guantanamo.
This is what I don't understand about you guys. How you can morally equate a free, democratic republic with a "society" like North Korea, where millions of people are starved because of the government's central planning policies; with Iran, who has elected a president bent on the destruction of an entire people; with Iraq, whose megalomaniac, homicidal ...[text shortened]... of the war. I don't. But there are far, far greater evils in the world than the US.
Originally posted by sasquatch672I thoroughly agree, up until the last sentence anyway.
I don't disagree with you about Guantanamo, or Abu Ghraib, or the massacre of innocent civilians by Marines. War itself is an atrocity. And I'm not saying this one was fought for the right reasons, I'm not. And seriously - screw George Bush. One of the biggest mistakes in our country's history was his "re"-election. But American public opinion rest ...[text shortened]... YOUR FREAKING GUTS, so let's all BACK THE FRICK OFF, what do you say, you pricks?