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Originally Posted by Libertine
You are giving two rather odd arguments here.
The second goes like this: "If an evil, fundamentalist, terrorist organization kills innocent civilians, it is ok for Israel to copy the behaviour that makes the organization in question evil, fundamentalist terrorists."
I don't think I even have to point out why that line of argument doesn't exactly work.
The first is simpler, and more interesting: "Israel has the right to defend itself."
Indeed, it does. However, only with proportionate actions. Furthermore, right now, Israel is not just defending itself. It clearly is not interested in a cease-fire at this point, and in fact wants to win this conflict completely. While that may be a rational position, it does mean that Israel is in fact not merely defending itself, but is on the offensive, choosing an aggressive role in this conflict. That changes things, a lot, because it gives Israel the full responsibility for any consequences their strategy has.
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Take Osama's dick out of your mouth for a minute and pay attention.
The way you defend yourself against an aggressor who won't stop fighting is to take away his ability to fight.
Kidnapping two Hezbollah members is a "proportional response" to two Israeli soldiers being kidnapped, but what good would that do?
NONE.
Take out Hezbollah and all of their weapons and then there won't be any more of this tit for tat proportional response shit.
If the Lebanese could police thier own population none of this would be necessary, but since they're a bunch of pansy ass sympathizers Israel has to do it for them and they have every right to protect their own citizens.
They're not marching into the capital and flying the Israeli flag, they're taking out the terrorists and then going home.