Reply #63: I agree with most of your post . However, . . . [View All]

[msmcghee]

.. I'm not so sure that it is wrong for Israel to retaliate with as much force as necessary to stop the missiles.

An extremely violent response, even one that results in hundreds of Lebanese civilian deaths, could be better than the thousands of Lebanese civilian deaths that could result from dragging it out.

Israel has a right to stop the missiles from flying into her territory and killing Israeli civilians - however Israel decides to do it within international rules of war, IMO.

Additionally, an extremely violent response may help to assure that Hizbollah / Lebanon would think very carefully before launching such a stupid and expensive adventure in the future. This could save many thousand more lives by preventing a repeat of this travesty.

Unless Israel is in violation of international rules of war we should not be telling her how to defend the lives of her citizens from an act of aggression across her borders.

My 2 cents.