How do limited attacks on military targets justify retaliatory attacks on unrelated civilian targets?

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Does Israel always look to make extra enemies in every conflict or are they just stupid?

Why the heck is the US sending ANY money to people responding this way? Wasn't Lebanon doing a great job of improving their relations and political structure without this sort of "help?" Why couldn't Israel cooperate with Lebanon to root out the terrorists?

Actually, tburley2003, I am the decendant of a long line of famous American generals spanning back to the Revolutionary War. I'm just curious if people know the difference between strategic mastery and incompetence. Would Sun Tzu be rolling in his grave or doing high fives over Israel's response to the Hezbollah attacks? So far I'm not seeing an informed answer, yet useful information for conclusive judging has been available for over 2 millenia. What's up with that? Why don't people know any better?

Fascinating excuses mulligan's 1st mate, but not the acme of military strategic reasoning. Perhaps you could murder 1 million people and not get a bat of an eye, but "accidentally" kill one person people care about (that might otherwise be neutral at this point - such as American college students or peace workers or say whoever might be the equivalent of a Lebanese MLK) and you run the risk of enraging a nation. Somehow Lebanon is safe for US students, but too dangerous for Israeli military cooperation with the Lebanese government to root out terrorists?

Additionally, what part of "soldiers signed up for dangerous, potentially lethal work and civilians did not" do you not understand? Maybe I can explain it to you if you still are capable of learning. Perhaps if they were students their lives would not have mattered so much to generate such a knee-jerk response?

My sky is blood red and burning.
I know that from my study of Sun Tzu that the terrorist strategy INTENDS for Israel to stupidly attack civilian targets, thus spawning more support for their cause - as has been the case of ANY guerilla strategy. Perhaps Israel would LIKE for the Lebanese Christians to side with Hezbollah? Is that their brilliant strategy? How did I ever miss it? I feel like such a fool. I should have known that was their plan for victory all along!

I care not for either Israel (a witless waste of taxpayer money) or Hezbollah (violent fascists of another color). I'd rather they wiped each other out of existence as much as one side or another won. My side is on that of the Lebanese neutral parties that hate both sides for destroying their peace. Apparently the life and safety of middle eastern Christians and secularists do not matter to some of you.

Answer 1

they dont justify attacks on civilian targets but the main reason america is hated in the middle east is because of its support of israel.
why is it that every other country in the region has a problem with israel? why have these people been hated for thousands of years? the only reason the palestines are considered terrorists is because they dont have the money or the us supplied armaments to be able to fight a war in the conventional sense. If they used tanks and helicopter gunships in the same way that israel can then would they still be considered terrorists or just a nation at war with another.
We hunt the taliban and yet the us and uk government were responsible for putting them into power!
Only israel sees the palestinians as terrorists when the rest of the middle east sees them as freedom fighters.
was paul revere a terrorist overthrowing a governemt or was he a freedom fighter? it all depends on who writes the history books.

israel should have worked with the lebanese government to root out the terrorists, just like the afghanistan government allowed the us to drop bunker bombs on their land in the search for osama.

Answer 2

What color is the sky in your world?
Hezbollah is a serious terrorist organization, that only someone with a chip on their shoulder would not see. Lebanon has been out of Syria ( US Enemy) for a year & Isreal has been a ally. Our strongest in the Middle East - we are not a favorite there - Muslims are raised to hate the US.

Lebanon has not control over Hezbollah - that is what caused this. Lebanon belived that they had some control. if you lie down with snakes, one will defintely bite you. (Hezbollah is the snake)

For record - less than 150 in Lebanon have died that is 400 people less tahn died by tsumani.

Answer 3

A response to the responses thus far:

dbikeguy: Is hezbolla hiding weapons in the middle of the airport runway, or in the bridge that was bombed out? Grow a brain.

What simplistic people we have on here, everything Israel does is "justified" anything that happens to Israel is "terrorism".

Could it really be that simple?

I'm not defending suicide bombers but I cannot defend the disregard for innocent life by the Israeli military.

Are people this cold or is it fear of that they do not understand?

Answer 4

the are not civilian targets Hezbollah hides their equipment to avoid Israels attacks and to discredit Israel when they do. its terrorist 101 we cant but they can

Answer 5

You can't reason with someone that's not reasonable.

Lebanon was sponsoring the terrorists.

Answer 6

That's the way Jews always do business.

Answer 7

You must live in Iran.