We have heard so much about al-Qaeda, now it's Hezbollah.Are they branches encompassing the same religious or political beliefs or what? Can we afford or can we not afford to take up this fight in addition to all the others we're presently involved in. I'm am looking for an impartial study of our background with the Middle East. Does such a text exist?
2006-07-27 08:40:26 · 7 answers · asked by BARBARA B 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
They are different from Al-Qaida. Hezbollah is Shiite and is supported by Iran both financially and militarily. South Lebanon is their home base precisely because it is within striking distance of Israel. Al-Qaida is predominantly Sunni and is not officially financed by anyone but gets lots of donations from likeminded individuals nonetheless.
To defeat Iran will be to defeat Hezbollah. However, Al-Qaida will be with us forever like crime, disease, and poverty. We can hope only to minimize it.
2006-07-27 08:50:52 · answer #1 · answered by Brand X 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is similar to a social organization in grafted into a foreign country.
Imagine the Boy Scouts with an aggressive agenda. At first the after school programs would seem OK. Then Sunday morning services for all Scouts would start. You might think it was strange but OK. Slowly they take over meals on wheels and the elderly love them.
After all of America is thinking these Boy Scouts are sure helping out. You notice some have guns. They say "OH were protecting the neighborhood" A couple more years and they are pressuring teenagers to join with no options. The new boyscouts go to military training and become Super Scouts.
This all takes 20 years and now they hold 50 % of the seats in Congress. But they help the elderly. One morning they bomb Canada....
Shocked you find out they were not really Boy Scouts but French freedom fighters fighting for a free Quebec. And all the recruits are shouting Free Quebec.
2006-07-27 09:24:16 · answer #2 · answered by 43 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hezbollah is an organization as any other organization in the world. You can't link it to terrorism because they kidnapped two soldiers or because they are defending their country. You want my advice, don't belive all what you hear, and half of what you see on the T.V. these days, watch BBC news is a lot better than CNN.
2006-07-27 08:51:22 · answer #3 · answered by kjobay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
look at your map of the region,,, read the history,, the religions of Abraham, Jesus and Mohamed,,,,,,,,, it's complicated,,, but the solution is simple,,,, what we believe must be more important than, belief itself,, we endanger our reputation as the worlds superpower in the name of peace, forgetting our basic values, of law and justice ...
2006-07-27 09:15:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suggest Wikipedia. They have information about everything.
2006-07-27 09:21:12 · answer #5 · answered by freemanbac 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are terrorists and they are in elbanon becasue they were created there
2006-07-27 08:51:07 · answer #6 · answered by Josh23232323bluejays 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are killers
2006-07-27 08:43:19 · answer #7 · answered by idontkno 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋