---I understand their concerns about their kidnapped soldiers but bombing the Beirut Airport was not going to help them in any way.---
I don't think you understand at all.
I didn't say that and it is rebel_yell2 who is trapped, not me. Try again.
I know of an American college kid of Lebanese extraction who is doing an internship there. I had no sympathy for his plight when I was told that he was vehemently anti-Israel. Sorry folks. If you are Anti-Israel, the only nation there who does not START fights with its neighbors, then you are part of the problem.
When a good country is fighting for its life, there can be no ounce of sympathy for its enemies. That is the whole point of calling it War. To make it objective that there is an ally and an enemy and no one in between. Civilians have always been killed in wars. Once the Arabs started targeting civilians, that was the time to officially call this WAR. I hope Israel will declare it soon, and that the U.S. libs in power right now back off.