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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] Intresting, but not particularly accurate- consider that Israel went with Sharons wildly unpopular pullout from the Gaza Strip and really tried to go the non-military route (the accolades of the international community at the time probably helped in this regard), but now Sharon's gone and the new Israeli leadership has (untill now) been seen as weak. I really dont see a diplomatic solution to this unless the hostages are returned and [i]then[/i] the international community calls for Israel to back down- any UN action against Israel without the hostages' return would be seen as soft on such acts and terrorism in general (and the US wont stand against it's ally under those circumstances). Besides, if Hezbollah was convinced a conflict was inevitible, why would they foster continued aggression? Why be seen as the aggressors? Was there some shake-up in [i]their[/i] leadership as well between the quoted paragraph and today? [QUOTE]Originally posted by Ritten: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [qb] Consider the response if a foreign power started firing rockets into US or British towns and kidnapping it's soldiers- makes Israel seem like the most paitent of nations. [/qb][/QUOTE]Umm, ahhh, WTC, Afghanistan, Iraq.... cough, cough, sigh..... [/qb][/QUOTE]The obvious comparison, but look further- to even petty attcaks on a soverign power, like the Falkland Islands skirmish. For a power, capable of overwhelming retaliation, to do nothing (or very limited retaliations) in the face of sustained attacks (as Israel has) is extraordianry. As example, can you imagine Cuba lobbing rockets into Florida? Calls for "Proportionate Response" would be heartily laughed off. No one would tolerate the crap Isreal has- but now that it's all hitting the fan, where will it end? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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