[YOUGOTIT]

And we know that the EU supports the terrorist and not Israel. They would be happy if the terrorist took over the land of Israel because that is what will happen unless Israel gets rid of the terrorist Hezdevils, and Hamdogs.

[calex59]

I thought Blair was Prime minister of Britain. Wow, I guess I was mistaken. MSM will take any remark from anyone and attribute it to a whole nation. Way to go MSM, frickin' pukes!

[Go Gordon]

publicly criticising Israel's military tactics and urging the Americans to 'understand' the price being paid by ordinary Lebanese civilians.

Well then, the next time a terrorist group wants to rule, maybe the voting public will vote them out overwhelmingly. This is just a history lesson for the people of Lebanon and Palestine (as it may be). Accomodate terroists - pay the piper.

[goldstategop]

The British did not show "restraint" in the Falklands. Argentina never attacked the British Isles. Hezbollah has strafed and rocketed Israeli cities and Israel is determined to do everything in its power to repel that aggression. I'm sure Prime Minister Olmert did not detain Blair with a history lesson on what the British did in the 1930s when their army resorted to drastic measures to crush Arab terrorism in Palestine - measures Israel has not even begun to employ to deal with a far greater threat. So to sum things up, its time the UK got off its moral high horse. Israel is doing exactly what any other nation would do faced with the same set of circumstances.

(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em, Down Hezbullies. )

[xzins]

Proportionality must be measured against the requirement that a war be winnable; i.e., the probability of success. In other words, if one doesn't possess sufficient force to win the war, then the effort is immoral, and never should have been undertaken.

That means that just war, while it requires proportionality, implies that proportionality is to be sacrificed somewhat at the altar of RESOLUTION.

Collateral damage is not the measure of proportionality, either. The measure of proportionality is "necessity to accomplish the task."

In other words, Harry Truman's decision to use atomics was both proportional and it ensured a proper probability of success.

[MikeA]

Shut up you Eurotrash fool. Let the real men finish this fight while you hand wring safely in London.

[Jeff Head]

The UK needs to realize that Chamberlain's path is not the road to follow now...no more than it was in the late 1930s. They need a stalwart Churchill to step forward.

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1670642/posts

'Tory Homeland Security spokesman Patrick Mercer said: "There is little doubt that we are in danger from Hezbollah. I trust that the Government are more alive to this threat than they have been to other Islamist fundamentalist threats."'

The Brits are SCARED.

[mtbopfuyn]

This is Israel's fight. When it's Britain's fight, will they bow down to whatever Israel says? Nope, didn't think so.

[TheBattman]

urging the Americans to 'understand' the price being paid by ordinary Lebanese civilians

You mean the "ordinary Lebanese civilians" who have not only elected (yes, Lebanon is technically a democratic country) a government that is supportive of the Hezzie terrorists, but also celebrate every time the Hezzies launch a rocket into Israel?

[psychopuppy]

To put disportionate into perspective in WWII there were about 95,000 American Battle dead vs. about 1.5 million japanese battle dead. Tit for Tat does not win you a war. I suppose these same people accusing Israel of responding disportionately would also like the condemn the U.S. for responding disportiontely in WWII.

[familyop]

If Israel had really targeted civilians as alleged by western Europeans, the death toll would be in the hundreds of thousands by now. Western Europeans are lying by exaggeration and omission, because they hate the people of Israel. They want to stop Israelis from defending themselves again, while seeing to it that no one restrains the Islamist nations.

[funkywbr]

When Reagan told Israel to get out of Lebanon what was the end result?

Today.

[the scotsman]

Lets get this straight...

This has been comments from SOME British ministers.

Britain OFFICIALLY is supporting the American stance on Israel.

Please do not equate Kim Howells etc to all of us...

[John Lenin]

Israel is just doing the job the U seless N ations refuses to do.