CBC: UN observers asked Israel to stop bombing 10 times before post was hit: report. ⇒
27 July 2006, mid-afternoon
There are reports on the Internet that the base was being used as cover by Hezbollah guerrillas, which may explain why it was being bombed. (I haven’t seen this reported anywhere reputable yet though, so we’ll need to wait and see what comes of it. CTV is carrying this story.) As I have mentioned elsewhere, albeit obtusely, I don’t think that’s a valid reason to bomb a civilian, or in this case neutral, target. The US blocked a UN statement condemning the attacks, though this is nothing new for them. Haran has more to say on this matter as well.
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
Interesting Whatif:
What if the Israeli soldiers were actually captured inside Lebanon?
by haran on July 27 2006, 11:32 pm #
Hey Haran, here’s an interesting whatif for you:
What if the Hezbollah had given up their weapons and dissolved as they were supposed to six years ago?
What if they didn’t install rocket launchers 50m from neutral buildings?
What if they actually used all those bunkers they have built over the past six years to house civilians—the same people they claim to be protecting?
Until you can provide answers to these questions, just keep sniping with your mates over at MF instead of pretending to have a balanced discourse.
by Sunny on July 29 2006, 10:07 pm #
That was more than one interesting whatif. But I’ll play this questions game Sunny.
Whatif you could come up with an idea of how Lebanon could have enforced resolution 1559 ? You’d be a millionaire.
(your last 3 points are really one and the same)
Whatif the majority of Hezbollah wasn’t some elite group of army-men masquerading as civilians, but instead primarily civilians taking up arms?
It’s the nature of guerrilla warfare that makes this an intractable problem and not something Israel can just bomb the shit out of. [see Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Yugoslavia (WWII), the American Revolution, Spain (circa Napoleon’s invasion)]
Israel has a right and a duty to protect themselves. Their approach to Lebanon goes beyond that however.
Here’s one more: Whatif you didn’t engage in ad hominems and instead tried to answer my initial whatif? Then you could take that back to your “mates” over at LGF and…etc.
Also, who’s pretending to have a balanced debate? I was stating opinions. You’re only engaging me now; and while you’ve already lumped me into some evil-left-wing-conspiracy echo chamber, I would welcome a balanced debate.
Cheers
by haran on July 31 2006, 1:29 am #