Reply #34: Many were killed, many were injured, much blood and treasure [View All]

[bemildred]

was thrown in the toilet, much was destroyed, nothing good or useful was accomplished. I consider these things self-evident. Israel is not a puppet on a string and the "Hizbullah made us do it" argument will not fly. Just because one person acts like an asshole, it does not absolve everyone else of responsibility for their own actions. Hizbullah did not destroy Lebanon, the IDF did. One could as well argue that the IDF rocketed N. Israel as that Hizbullah bombed Lebanon. Both sides in the war understood perfectly well what was going to happen before it started, and they went ahead and did it anyway. The really obnoxious part is that great harm, economically, politically, and militarily, was done to Israeli interests by the war as well. Nobody won, everybody lost, and it was completely unnecessary.