Freedom of speech? Where?

[likwid]

And Hezbollah is listed as a "terrorist organization" that builds schools, hospitals, and the Lebanese will NEVER give them up or try to kick them out.

Considering the militant wing and the political wing have very little to do with each other its easy to pull the fleece over people's heads who've never bothered to research anything.

Pick up a copy of Robert Young Pelton's Dangerous Places.

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Originally Posted by likwid

And Hezbollah is listed as a "terrorist organization" that builds schools, hospitals, and the Lebanese will NEVER give them up or try to kick them out.

Unless the Government could manage to provide schools and hospitals. Then perhaps they wouldn't need them?

You want to remove Hizbolla? Send in UN troops to seal the border with Syria, sign a non-agression pack with Israel and give the Lebanese PM a fat free trade agreement with the USA.

Soon there will be a Starbucks on every street corner, the people won't tolerate terrorisim as it will impeed their daily double mocha latte

-spence

[likwid]

But the Lebanese government just falls on Hizbollah to do that for them.
They're corrupt and waste money while someone else is left to pick up the pieces.

Here's some more atrocities of the day:

http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2006/0...-to-arab-kids/

Israeli children signing bombs headed to Lebanon.

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Originally Posted by likwid

But the Lebanese government just falls on Hizbollah to do that for them.

Not really...the Lebanese Government has made some good progress of late. The problem is the PM simply doesn't have the resources to flush Hizbolla from the system.

Oh, and he'd be dead within the week...just like his predecessor.

-spence

[Skitterpop]

Originally Posted by spence

Oh, and he'd be dead within the week...just like his predecessor.

-spence

Less than a week....

[Skitterpop]

What they cannot do or are allowed to do is very telling.

And the slants....

How do like this one? In response to much negative commentary about the lack of urgency evacuating Americans in Lebanon.


BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- U.S. Marines poured off military ships Thursday to help rescue Americans from Lebanon.
Some 40 Marines helped families, children in strollers, tourists and the elderly onto landing craft to whisk them to a warship off the coast of Beirut.
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Poured implies a deluge of perhaps thousands of Marines... Forty is actually one raindrop that evaporates before it can quench.

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Well "pour" in this case was like a little stream of Turkish coffee

-spence

[RIJIMMY]

Originally Posted by likwid

And Hezbollah is listed as a "terrorist organization" that builds schools, hospitals, and the Lebanese will NEVER give them up or try to kick them out.

Considering the militant wing and the political wing have very little to do with each other its easy to pull the fleece over people's heads who've never bothered to research anything.

Pick up a copy of Robert Young Pelton's Dangerous Places.

You cant forget these guys need to play politics too. Isreals pullout of gaza took away the rallying point for a lot of the anti-Isreal groups. Hezbollah does not want to become a political party, they want to remain a military force. That may explain the foray into Isreal. Get them the attention and press they want, and makes Isreal once again look like the aggressor. I heard an awesome piece on NPR yesterday about Hezzbolah. These are smart guys and are trying to remain legitimate while the world may be truning against them. I hear so much about the "moderate" muslims that are against terrorsim, i dont understand why they do not have a voice. There may come a time when countries like Lebanon wont allow these groups.

[likwid]

Originally Posted by RIJIMMY

I hear so much about the "moderate" muslims that are against terrorsim, i dont understand why they do not have a voice. There may come a time when countries like Lebanon wont allow these groups.

Because the many that want to just live their lives happily and just do their own thing have nowhere near the voice the few with bombs and guns have.

We hear about Earth Liberation Front burning Hummer Dealerships and Ski Resorts down.

Have you ever heard of Complacent and their political movement?
I didn't think so.