Why do people accuse DU of bad mouthing Israel, yet they won't respond [View All]

[jsamuel]

to reasonable,logical posts opposing Israel's action. Why are these ignored?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1712265

"Suicide Anti-Terrorism" - States getting involved in invasions and blowing each other up in order to stop terrorism.

By using this policy, countries just end up killing themselves and sparking more terrorism and create more terrorists. Also, they end up killing (however inadvertent - or as Tony Snow puts it, collateral damage) extreme numbers of civilians.

INVADING/BLOWING UP A COUNTRY DOES NOT STOP TERRORISM

While I can understand, on principle that Israel has a right to defend itself, the problem is that their METHODS are WRONG. Let me remind everyone of two little countries... Iraq and Afghanistan.

This false choice of either invading a country or taking the hits from terrorists has to stop in American and world politics. The simple fact is that by invading/blowing up a country, it does not defeat terrorism, instead it only makes it stronger. I think anyone only has to look as far as Iraq and even Afghanistan to see this truth laid bare.

So, by supporting invasions to stop terrorism, we are SUPPORTING TERRORISM by giving it the avenues for growth.

There are many voters known as "domestic Democrats" out there, but it seems to me that many voters are "foreign Republicans". I think we have only ourselves to blame for not proving this point on a national stage. Instead of trying to look strong on national security, lets be strong. No one can agree with you if you never make your argument.

In order to respond to those who say I offer no alternatives, I will suggest the following.

Why couldn't Israel work with their close friend Lebanon in routing out Hezbollah WHILE WORKING WITH Lebanon instead of invading it? Lebanon's army is weak, so that is where Israel could help out supplying support to the Lebanese government/military. Limited of course. They would overwhelm Hezbollah from the inside. The Lebanon government would be boosted with support from Israel and the international community. Lebanon would become more stable.

(I have heard people such as Tim Russert saying that Hezbollah has "significant" control of the Lebanese government. It is quite inaccurate to argue that as they have a total of 2 seats in that government.)

Is it because people here are more concerned with sturing up trouble for DU than for actually trying to discuss or solve the problem?