If Hezbollah are Lebanon's defenders, then shouldn't Lebanon be forced into an unconditional surrender for

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military kidnapping?

Alternatively, Hezobollah are terrorists and deserve to be thrust out of their country.

How can you have it both ways? Isn't it a contradiction?

If someone started messing with US military, and it was a large reasonably threatening force the military would expect a response or to attack. How is this different?

Only a fool would consider the history simple. The prisoners also are not simple. Nonetheless, they should have known this was always an Israeli option even if it was to free their Hezbollah freedom fighting brothers.

Hezbollah should no more blame Israel for this particular conflict than anything else. Seriously, talk is cheaper than missles and much cheaper than lives.

I counter that a military action is what ever it is. When one is attacked they have the right to defend themselves. Equivalent response is irresponsible. It solves nothing.

The Mexican military and police work with the US thus response is had...Next?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

For starters ‘kidnapping soldiers’ isn’t something that only Hizbollah is guilty of… The Israelis have kidnapped Lebanese soldiers in the past as well! Have a read through the United Nations Security Council Resolutions at http://www.un.org/Docs/sc (Top left hand corner of the page)

Kidnapped soldiers are used for bargaining power purposes in prisoner exchange negotiations… You let them go, we’ll let these go! It doesn’t seem to work too well, though!

I think if you read through all of the UN Resolutions you will get a much better understanding of the situation in the Middle East. Take particular note of the Resolutions that Israel has refused to abide by, and you will appreciate that they are far from being ‘angels’!

To finish off, may I suggest that the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers did not warrant the response it received from Israel, particularly when you consider that the places where the prisoners were likely to be held, were blown to pieces by the Israelis. It doesn’t sound like they were too concerned about getting the soldiers back ‘alive’!

Answer 3

You know what? These are not the only two alternatives to explain what Hezbollah did. You are basing yourself on the premise that it all started with the kidnapping of the Israeli soldiers. I won't bother pursuading you otherwise because you are asking a rhetorical question and want some answer of the "nuke them" sort, or, if milder, of the sort of "Lebanon had it coming."

Answer 4

The US does not commit outsize over-the-top strikes for minor infractions. Many gangs in Mexico and Columbia have kidnapped a US military person or two, and no one has dropped bombs on either country.

Israel's response to the kidnappings was completely out of order, and the subsequent destruction of Lebanon's infrastructure and annihilation of civilians makes no sense, except as a terroristic land grab and greed for water supplies.