What do you think of the analogy:Hezbollah is to Lebanon as the Minutemen were to the United States?

Question

Does a sovereign country have an inalienable right to protect their property, land and people from invasion and take over from a hostile and imperialistic force?

When I spoke of the Minutemen I was referring to the Revolutionary War ones. Sorry, need to clarify.

Answer 1

Seems that nobody studies american history - or you need to clearly state that you are referring to the Revolutioary war. Speaking about Minutemen in the past tense is not enough them to understand.


your concept is correct. If you agree with their politics, they are freedom fighters, if not, they are terrorists.

Answer 2

Your analogy and your question have nothing to do with one another. The minutemen aren't armed and controlled by a foreign country, nor are they stockpiling arms, firing rockets across international borders, etc. Not a good analogy.

As for your question, of course a country does have than right. However, individual citizens do not have that right. The Geneva Conventions work this way: We in the military agree not to target civilians and to only target militaries. In return for this protection, civilians agree to not get involved in wars. Along with this, militaries all agree that the killing of soldiers by soldiers during war is not murder, and soldiers cannot be prosecuted for doing their jobs (within the rules set down by Geneva Conventions).

So Hezbollah should not be doing what it is doing. If the Minutemen started attacking Mexicans, they'd be wrong too.

Answer 3

The minutemen havent killed anyone on Mexican soil ( or US soil for that matter), they are not funded by other countries wishing to do Mexico harm, they dont have a seperate ideology from the country in which they live, they do not control the U.S. government the way hezbollah runs Lebanon, and to top the list...they dont want to wipe Mexicans off the face of the Earth, which is what hezbollah has stated it wants to do with the Jews and Isreal. Many,many many big differences.

Answer 4

Not even close. The Minutemen (1770s version) were trying to win freedom for America from the British empire that was claiming this land as its colony.

Hezbollah isn't trying to win the freedom of Lebanon from the Israeli empire that is claiming to own Lebanon. Israel isn't claiming Lebanon as a colony. Rather, Hezbollah is trying to wipe Israel off the face of the map because Hezbollah doesn't like Israel.

Lebanon isn't fighting to expel Israel from its territory. In fact, Lebanon isn't doing much of anything. Hezbollah, an acknowledge terrorist organization, is attacking Israel from Lebanese soil. Israel has nothing against Lebanon, except they're annoyed at Lebanon for allowing Hezbollah to continue its aggressions.

Lebanon has had six years, since the last cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, to stop Hezbollah from launching rockets and sending suicide bombers into Israel. Lebanon has failed.

So, if Lebanon can't stop Hezbollah from attacking Israel, somebody has to. And that somebody is logically Israel, as the nation being attacked. And since about day 4, long before Israeli ground forces crossed the border, Israel has offered to end the fighting if Lebanon steps up and does stop Hezbollah from firing any more rockets into Israel. Lebanon failed.

Israel invaded Lebanese territory, but because it wants to control Lebanon, but because that was the only way to get at Hezbollah. And because nobody else was doing anything to stop Hezbollah.

Answer 5

Yes, but there are huge differences between the words terrorists and imperialists and no difference. Terrorism is more a a tactic used to fight an overwhelming power force against a smaller and less powerful force. Imperialists are those that would create and/or rule by a force that exploits the subjected populations and governs them by threat and demonstration of power. Terrorists are those that use weapons to disrupt a society based on a single set of laws and customs. They use threats and seemingly random killings to breakdown the rule of law and customs. However, Imperialist of every stripe use their militaries to destroy and overpower existing systems of governance to be replaced by the attackers system of laws.
Imperialist are natural enemies of terrorists, and terrorists are natural enemies of imperialists. They are two sides of the same coin.
Yes, you are correct, it is a good analogy!

Answer 6

The Minutemen are not our National Guard they just fancy themselves as such,you have all kinds of personality types out there saying they are helping defend our country,some are closet vigilanties,race haters,and just plain bored with their lives,the type of people the military may reject when and if they took a battery of psychological tests.It`s dangerous for them to be on the border..I think they should be arrested for interfering with our National Policy towards Mexico,which is dont ask dont tell.

Answer 7

Let me give you a bit better ANALOGY:

Hezbollah is to Islam as The Ku Klux Klan is to Christianity.

Both twist their respected religions to serve their purpose. Both are factions within a country. Both have their following. Both have organized structure. Both are embedded in the Southern parts of their respected countries.

Answer 8

Not a good one - the minutement have not fired any missiles into Mexico to kill people.

But the rest of your statement is true.

Answer 9

no not really ...Israel wasnt taking them over and does not claim lebanon as its territory ... a more acurrate description would be if the minuetmen sailed over to Britain and attacked it claiming it as part of our "homeland" ... so get it straight.

Answer 10

That is absolutely WRONG!!!! YES!!! That is why Israel are
fighting the Hezbollah and Hamas TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS.