Reply #142: I totally agree. . . [View All]

[MaraJade]

Most of the posters here were not even alive during the VietNam war. But I WAS. My brother was
there and my mother cried every night as we watched the "Huntley-Brinkley" report and heard the
body counts. . .

The VietCong were famous for the guerilla tactic of wearing street clothes and mingling with
sympathetic villagers. From these villages (the populace of which had their favor curried by
VietCong so-called "aid", ) the VietCong would launch attacks against the South Vietnamese and the
Americans. After a sniper or other attack, the killers would simply disappear into the villages,
literally hiding behind the women and children there.

This is what Hezbollah has done.

They have curried favor with the Lebanese citizens by using Irani and Syrian petro-dollars to supply
the "aid" that the elected Lebanese government could not supply. In this way, the Hezbollah, unelected
quazi-government established a foothold in Lebanon and put their infrastructure in among the populace
whom the are actually using as human shields.

Relying upon the honor of the Israeli government, Hezbollah then felt free to rain missiles down
upon Israeli citizens in the belief that the Israeli government would not respond out of respect
for the citizens of Lebanon.

This is similar to a situation where a neighbor irresponsible allows a criminal to shoot out of their
upstairs window, raining destruction upon the neighborhood. I believe that such an irresponsible
homeowner can blame absolutly no one if the community assaults their home to drag the criminal out.
Who would reasonably blame them? The community has a right to remove a neighborhood danger,
even if the householder who allowed the danger does not agree. And if the householder or his wife
blocks or attempts to block such action, and is injured, so what? It was the irresponsible
householder who allowed the attacks on the neighborhood in the first place.

I am sorry about any "innocent" people who are caught up in this. But after hearing that thousands of
the people in the affected areas supported Hezbollah and were in favor of the attacks being launched
from their own neighborhoods, I must say that they knew that particular job was dangerous when they took it.