You just might have a different opinion if one of the 250 dead was your mother, father, brother, sister, cousin, friend, neighbor, associate, etc. You would probably be upset, unless you do not possess the normal range of human emotion. You might just blame Israel, the folks that dropped the bombs. And if you had no way to vent your frustration you might just find a way to get back....thus, the circle of violence in the MidEast.
But Bob's supposed to be a military expert. He's supposed to know that the IDF has shown incredible restraint thus far and not allow the emotions to get the best of him. Certainly not to compare what's going in there to the seige in Leningrad or the actions of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front.
If he wants to spout off like that, fine. But if he's going to be a paid military expert, FOX might want to rethink having him on.
Dear Pamela,
I am speaking with Lebanese Christians in Lebanon and they are all fine. Israel is not bombing them or their towns. Israel is bombing the Shiite radical strong holds. This is what the news is not telling you. Israel bombed the airport, the port and the bridges to Syria because they are used to transport weapons and support to Hezbollah. The Lebanese army doesn't even have an airforce or airplanes. They only have helicopters. The airport was used to bring support to Husballah and that's why Israel bombed the infrastructure.
Huzballah is the "A Team" of terrorist organizations. They are more organized, more lethal, more structured and more calculated than Al-Qaeda. It is Husballah who is training Al-Qaeda members in south Lebanon, and in the Bekaa and southern Beirut where Israel is bombing. It is those same Al-Qaeda terrorists who are trained in Lebanon, are the ones who travel via Syria into Iraq and Afghanistan. Israel is doing the job that the world powers and UN should have done a long time ago.
It is also in Lebanon and Husballah where these terrorists are developing the roadside bombs used on our marines and soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Those same terrorists have cells in America and ready to unleash suicide bombing here in America.
As sad as I feel watching what is happening in Lebanon, it is absolutely necessary to support Israel to kill the cancer that has spread and is killing the Lebanese body. Israel is not targeting civilians. Israel is targeting terrorists. Israel has launched 3000 air strikes on Lebanon since the beginning of the Operation and inflicted only 122 casualties. If Israel's intention was to kill civilians you would have seen many more civilian deaths than only 122. They are being extremely careful, even dropping flyers and urging civilians to leave before they bomb. These casualties are "terrorists" and terrorist families and sympathizers.
Please read this article from Debbie Schlussel. She hits the nail on the head. Not all American-Lebanese there are terrorist sympathizers. There is a minority of Christians vacationing there too. However the majority of the Muslims have connections to Husballah. Brigitte