On Chrissy's show earlier...he had on Pete Williams the NBC Foreign Affairs reporter (I think)..
Chrissy was asking HIM questions like he is some kind of experts...well..Pete said that here in the USA...WE should be a lot more afraid of al-queda than Hezbollah.
NOW..that is just the OPPOSITE from what I have been hearing for the two weeks that this Israel/Hezbollah war has been going on, from "expert" after "expert"..
Pete said that whereas Al-Queda wants to kill Jews and Americans, and take over the world...
Hezbollah doesn't..they JUST want to be involved with Syria and Iran....that they DON'T aspire to conquering America or other countries.
Have you or any other freeper heard THAT analysis of Hezbollah before?? He says that one of the reasons he knows this is because even though HEZ was responsible for killing the Marines..and bombing the Embassy...
They haven't gone after Americans anywhere else.
Opinions anyone?
IIRC, before 9-11, Hezbollah had killed more Americans than any other terrorist group.
Paging Pete Williams...
I personally think both are to be feared equally. A terrorist is a terrorist. Kill 'em all, negotiate with no one. Like some FReeper's tagline indicates:
"Truce appeal from a terrorist means they are out of ammunition."
I must have missed Chrissy, I thought he came on at 5 Eastern. Cafferty on now with letter from soon idiot saying, Let's sit back and let the UN do it's job.
I would have been ashamed to read that twot.
That is absolute bull. They were threatening to blow up installations in the U.S. back in the early 1980s - around the time they bombed the Marine barracks.
My take is that the Mad Mullahs have sub-contracted the Lebanon-Israel theater to one group of Hezi-Nazis who are supposed to focus only upon that front..... for now.
But they are all part of the loose alliance of Islamo-fascists, both Shia and Sunni, who want to obliterate Israel and then take the global jihad to Europe and the USA and everywhere else.
If this particular group isn't attacking Americans, it's only because they have their plate full with trying to weaken Israel and don't yet want to focus on other fronts.
Anyway, we owe them endless payback for what they did to our Marines and Embassy people in 1983, so every REAL American should be rooting for Israel to kill every last Hezi-Nazi they can get at.....
I heard that. What has that guy been smoking?
threat = intent + capability
Those who argue AQ is a greater threat than Hezbollah look at intent. Hezbollah has everything to lose, while AQ has nothing to lose from striking the US. However, this could change suddenly if Hezbollah believes that it is on the verge of extinction or if its sponsors (Iran and Syria) are under attack from the US. Then they will go all out here in the US once ordered to by Iran.
On the capability side of the equation. Few dispute that Hezbollah can theoretically kill far more Americans in the United States once it makes the decision to do so than AQ.
And AQ/Hezbollah are both/and, not either/or. They have attacked American targets together in the past and likely will do so again in the very near future.