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Originally Posted by Regorium
First of all, I've made an intelligent argument. As Lanny pointed out, instability in oil prices benefits the massive oil corporations. The only ones that suffer are you and me: the consumer. We feel that there is no benefit in increasing oil prices, but absolutely, they do. Hell, in Alberta, you should know this more than anything.
Second of all, I'd like to state that i don't agree with Harper. I think that yes, Israel is entitled to self-defence, but really, is what they're doing right now self defence? You know, bombing the airport, tv stations, and all that. So far, 55 civilians have been killed, no mention of the hundreds wounded. How long must this go on? Should we just drop a nuclear bomb on them in the name of self-defence?
Still, the solution to this? It's almost impossible. The soldiers must be returned, but how are you going to ask for that when you've just claimed 55 lives in the first couple hours of conflict? Someone has to give first, and Israel is in the position of power. They have to walk the high ground yet again, and appeal for international support. I think that they need to win back the support of the international community that's deserted them in the face of the atrocious retaliations in order to have any pull in the hearts of the Lebanese and Palestinian people.
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I would suggest you search for "Beruit, Lebanon" on google earth (download it) and scroll over to their airport. You can't miss it.
Zoom in, and look at whats around the airport. AA guns. Everywhere.
Most civilian airports.. such as calgary, don't have AA guns kicking around.
I know they live in a hostile region, but still. Its a legitimate target. Same with the bridges, their excuse is that it prevents the transfer of the captured soldier(s). Potentially, having the same effect as preventing the reienforcements from neighbouring countries by bombing major arteries suchs as the Lebanon-Syria highway bridge should they choose to involve themselves.
The TV stations? meh... propoganda. Everyone does this when attacking another country. See US invades Iraq. and almost every other conflict.
Who cares if the U.S. didn't back a
RESOLUTION .. that means ****. 3 other countries veto'd it also. You thing Israel would stop? I think they've been constantly pushed (By the loads of rockets fired into their country for years) and they have finally said enough and stuck back.. hard.
If Syria and Iran want to get involved, they know the US is going to whoop ass too and jump at the opportunity to do so. So they know to be smart about how involved they want to get because any involvement from those countries (part of the axis of evil.. according to bush) would result in US military support of israel.