Hezballah kidnapped the CIA Station Chief in Bierut, tortured and interogated him for a year, then hung him with piano wire (all on video).
Hezballah kidnapped some Russian. The KGB went out kidnapped some Hezballah guys, tortured them, cut their balls off and returned them to Hezballah. The kidnapped Russian was then released.
We have terrorism today, because we've wimped out since 1967 on responding to terrorists.
Yup