I saw a story the other night about the incredible length of time it is taking the U.S. to evacuate it’s citizens from that region. Other countries were moving their people out much faster.

The story also stated that those U.S. citizens might be charged for the trip.
It’s nice to have a government that cares for you….

The Israeli demand is, as I understand it, that people don’t kidnap their citizens, and don’t bomb them. It goes slightly further in asking that those who have bombed them are disarmed, but since they already tried a ceasefire with this group without success, that seems quite moderate.

Would you advocate trading terrorists for kidnapped prisoners, because that is an endless and unrewarding activity.

You’re what’s known as ‘easily lead’.

People can have their say. But their comments show their own arrogance and even schadenfreude — I don’t think I even need bother replying to some comments below, because the extent of the person’s extremism is self-evident.

And that’s the kind of attitude that we’re up against.

It was the Allies that had insisted in this complete, total, unconditional surrender that they couldn’t accept. If we had given diplomacy a chance, we might have been able to avoid this.

That is exactly what it will take to stop Islamic terror – ie atomic weapons – not Israel’s feeble half hearted strikes or your sad “we Westerns are sooo guilty” self abasement.

So go f*ck yourself you collaborator.

Why even have soldiers if the cost of only ~potentially~ suffering their loss is to kill hundreds of civilians and militiamen, destroy completely large parts of a country’s infrastructure, surely suffer more casaulties in reprisals, and probably set the back the way to peace to great the degree (which should be the ultimate purpose or goal)?

Of course, that is the intent of Hezbollah…

BTW, one of the reasons for bombing roads is to prevent the kidnapped soldiers from being moved out of the country.

Reply via email as well as I don’t read your blog’s comments.

Regarding the nuclear bombings in Japan: Did they cost hundreds of thousands of lives? Yes. Was it horrible? Yes, without a doubt. I lived in Japan for three years when I was younger (1986-1989). Many Japanese were still angry at America for what we had done. However, many were also very honest in their assessment of those bombings: they [b]saved[/b] thousands of lives, both Japanese and American. How? Because of the Japanese culture of non-surrender. If we had wiped out Japan’s Army, but they had not surrendered, we would have continued our carpet bombing and/or would have stormed their beaches. The Japanese would have fought to the last man, woman, and child before they gave up. It would have cost millions more lives, both Japanese and American. Was it the best option? That’s debatable. Did it end up saving lives? Yes, oddly enough.

Is Israel’s response justified? In their eyes, apparently it is. We, as westerner’s, have no idea, for the large part, what it is like to be attacked on our own soil. Yes, we have 9/11, but even that pales in comparision to the fear of never knowing when a missle, mortor, or bomb may be lobbed from a neighboring country. And while we may argue about the “rightness” of their actions, they are operating under a totally different set of rules and mindsets. I don’t know all the details of the attacks (either from or against Lebenon), so I won’t speculate. If it is to God that Israel appeals for justificaiton, then God will decide if their actions are justified.

- Joshua