400 troops say what!

[Robert]

If you look into all of the times Israel has been asked to cease fire its only been when Israel started to win.

Personally I think the UN should have stayed out of this conflicted. They weren't screeming cease fire when it looked like Israel was going to lose. Then when they started their push further into teh country everyone got excited.

It seems to me like Israel never let their military really go for teh kill. I think that was a mistake.

Now as for the French, they're horrible for having a back bone on anything that matters.

[GT40FIED]

Originally Posted by Robert

It seems to me like Israel never let their military really go for teh kill. I think that was a mistake.

That sounds a lot like selective democracy. Lebanon is just like many other states in that region (Israel included). They are a somewhat democratic theocracy. Hell...you can't even live in Israel if you aren't a jew. Sure...Hezbollah probably aren't the nicest bunch of guys on the planet...but the fact remains that they're a legitimate political party in Lebanon. To try and eliminate a legitimate political party by force, whatever their views, is simply downright facist. That's like me saying that I don't like republicans therefor they should not exist.

People like to throw around the opinion that Israel is the only real democracy in the middle east. Problem is, there ARE other democracies...they just don't like us much. Israel likes us because we give them shotloads of weapons and money and ask nothing in return. Plus it's easy for them to win us over...question Israel and you're automatically an anti-Semite. Then again, I think both countries fucked up and it'd be wrong for us to support one over the other.