I don’t discount your history, because there is truth in it. None the less, I have to come to terms with Hezbollah ascendance, and past skirmishes with Israel in the midst of Southern Lebanon dynamics.
The South of Lebanon was armed to the teeth against Israel. That took place, as people in Lebanon turned a blind eye.
I am continually amazed at the groups of Islamic adherents who feign apprehension regarding the things other Islamicists do.
Beheadings are not uncommon. The stoning of women who are raped is not uncommon. None the less these types of reports continue to come out of the Middle-East, as if there are good and bad sides of Islam.
Where are the condemnations of beheading, and what are those condemnations based on? The members of Islam have signed on to that sort of thing for hundreds of years.
Now we’re supposed to believe that some don’t approve? What is that based on?
These people are either confused themselves, or confused about the fact that the West knows them for exactly who they are.
I wish this weren’t true, but I am unable to judge this it isn’t.
But if the West does know them for what they are, then why is there this weird policy of regime change, in places like Libya and Syria, where it is handing power to the head-choppers? It is inexplicable.
In Iraq too - dare one say it - was Sadaam Hussein any worse than what has come after him? Was he wrong to be a "tyrant"? Most of those killed in his various crack downs were Islamic extremists of one sort or another. We put in a no fly zone, so that he could not bomb militias in northern Iraq. Now that he is gone, we ourselves have to go to all the trouble of bombing militias in northern Iraq.
There must be some plan to all this, but I cannot see it.