Reply #62: Interesting. [View All]

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

I hadn't heard of this before. Since the airport was one of the first places bombed, I am assuming that Syria and Iran were using the airport up until the bombing--is this correct? What was the reaction of the Lebanese government to all this? I know it was only recently that Syrian troops left that country--was being able to use the airport part of the deal of the troops leaving?

I'm still wondering why, if they were using the airport to bring in weapons, they didn't also supply planes and bombs-do you think Syria and Iran are using Hezbollah as a surrogate so that they are yet are not involved in the conflict? It would seem to me that if those two nations want war, they would have used the Beirut airport and their own airports to simply bomb Israel to smithereens so as not to protract things. Since they haven't, there are other factors involved, though for the life of me I don't know what they are.