A Peek into a Mind

Imshin wrote:
“I’m tired of hearing that the government of Lebanon is too weak to handle the Hezbollah. I’m tired of hearing that we must not hold them responsible because that would endanger their regime.

The thing is, it is not the Lebanese government that reigns in Lebanon, is it? It’s the Hezbollah.”

In the comments to this post I found 2 interesting commnets:

skipsailing:

How does this work?

The Lebanese attack a neighboring country and then demand that the neighboring country resolve the internal issues that lead to the attack?

Let’s make sure we’re getting this right: the lebanese want the israelis to eliminate hezbullah for them? That’s what this sounds like to me.

The more I study this more enraged I become. Where is the flower of ARab manhood in all of this?

It is quite clear that the arabs lack the courage it takes to expunge the psychopaths that have highjacked their religion. But rather than summon this courage, you blame everyone but yourselves.

What, exactly, do you think we in America have been doing for the last five years? We’ve been studying this situation carefully and we’ve clearly reached some conclusions. And conclusion number one is that the arab muslim culture is dangerous to our civilization.

There is no point in mincing words now. Just look at the Syrian ambassador to the US, demanding that America play it’s traditional role. To this guy America’s traditional role is “dupe for the whiley arabs.”

As they say in Mexico, NO mas. 9/11 changed all that. We got hip to your bullshit and we’re not buying it anymore.

We have a 135,000 battle hardened troops sitting in Iraq. We’ve learned how to fight and win in your region. The syrian ambassador may be so stupid that he cannot see the change in the landscape, but we in American aren’t.

Arab duplicity won’t work this time. Woe is me balogna isn’t selling. you attacked your neighbor, you’ve done nothing to confront the psychotics within your faith, you should have no expectations of Sympathy from the civilized world.

If you lack the balls to take on the evil doers among you then you’re gonna die.

Welcome to a war YOU should have fought and didn’t.

Davidi:

If the end of this war will only mark a return to how things were a day before the war, than nothing was achieved by either side but loss of lifes.

It is important to use this opportunity (YES! Thats what any crisis is - An opportunity) to make a DIFFERENCE in the way thongs are. If, in the end of this, Hizbullah is allawed to continue to attack Israel, than nothing has changed and all this will happen again. And again. And again…

For all this to CHANGE, Hizbullah MUST be disarmed - or be left alon on the battlefield, with no civillians to hide behind.

These are the options left to the lebanese people: disarm Hizbullah, or leave your country to them. Anything else means we will see a re-run of all of this, again and again and again.

Yes, I agree Israel’s attacks make it harder for the Lebanese Government (such as it is) to act, but I don’t think anyone in the Israeli Government seriously considers the possibility of the Lebanese Army actualy trying to disarm Hizbullah; I think Ulmert, Peretz and Halutz are trying to force Syria into orderring Hizbullah to back down.

This will take a long time, as Assad has no real concern for how many lebanese get killed. And this is where Lebanese civillians can make a difference, by making their voice heard and calling Hizbullah to stop. If the Lebanese overnment realise they have popular support, they MIGHT do something sooner.

Ulmert followed the path marked by Sharon and evacuated the Israeli settlments in Gaza. Everyone said it cannot be done, but he did it. It is time for the Lebanese People to be as currageous, and disarm Hizbullah for Lebanon’s sake.