[DentsRun]

Yeah, I agree. It's wrong. But on the scale of wrongs it's a pretty fargin low priority. Hundreds of Marines were murdered in order to turn Lebanon from a Christian ruled state into an Islamic ruled state, and we are told how "wrong" it is that some IDFers cursed out some Marines.

How anyone can expect people to listen to this sh!t and not believe there is another agenda going on is unbelievable.

You're misrepresenting what happened here. Someone posted a story about the problems U.S. marines had with Sharon's forces in Lebanon. It was an old story, I'd heard it all before and wouldn't even have commented on it had some people here not tried to discredit the information by claiming it came from a disreputable source. And that unfortunately is a depressingly familiar tactic here. If someone posts something that someone else doesn't like, the first instinct of some posters here is not to refute the information directly, which would be the intellectually honest thing to do, but to claim it came from a site that had Arab ties, terriorist ties or Holocaust-denial-site ties. That's why I responded to one of the posters who was attacking the source--it looked to me as if he were taking Sharon's side over our own marines.

You say you find it hard to believe that another agenda isn't going on here. Well I also see some not-so-hidden agendas going on around here, as when some people post photographs purportedly showing Sharon farting on General Zinni or call Norman Schwartzkopf a "fat Nazi janissary" or compare Bush Senior to "Adolph Eichmann"--and all because these three apparently failed to support Israel (or Sharon) as fully as the poster wanted. If people want to show their fervent support for Israel here, it's fine by me. But I draw the line when they do it by ridiculing American fighting men.

[1rudeboy]

First of all, the idea that Israeli troops were "harassing" our troops is not irrefutable. Secondly, the first thing to do is question the source. You are absolutely wrong.

[monkeyshine]

You're misrepresenting what happened here.

No I'm not. I read the article on top of this thread just like everyone else.

What I see is a story about IDF troops calling U.S. Marines names, and trying to test their lines.

Then I continue to read, and see that Hezbullah Terrorists murdered a bunch of sleeping Marines and diplomats, shelled our boys at the airport, shot at them with sniper fire.

And that's supposed to be a "balanced view". It's rediculous. What the IDF did, compared to what the Hezbullah and PLO were doing are incomparable and not worthy of being in the same story.