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Originally Posted by Libertine
If a madman comes your way, holding up both a gun and a baby (perhaps his own?), and you choose to shoot him, thereby also killing the baby, part of the responsibility is yours - especially if, like Israel, you decide to go on the offensive and to take him out no matter what, entirely ignoring the existence of the baby. Sometimes, there may be no other choice, but in this case, there is - a cease-fire.
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No you're right, I should just let the madman kill me so the baby "might" live. (How safe is a baby in the arms of a madman with a gun?)
A cease-fire won't do any good at this point, not yet. All that would do is give Hezbollah time to be resupplied by Iran and Syria.
Once the Lebanese gov't agrees to police it's own citizens, namely Hezbollah, and a U.N. peacekeeping force is put into place to keep Hezbollah on their side of the border, then they can have a cease-fire.
If there were a cease fire now without these other things being in place, this thing would flare back up again in a very short period of time.
I don't like Bush and voted against him twice, however his SecState is right on the fucking money regarding this situation.