A "wish to destroy Lebanon"

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Israel appears to 'wish to destroy' Lebanon: Chirac

Fri Jul 14, 10:37 AM ET

PARIS (AFP) - French President Jacques Chirac has said that there appears to be a "wish to destroy Lebanon" in reference to
Israel's bombardments following the abduction of two soldiers.

"One may well ask if there isn't today a kind of wish to destroy Lebanon -- its infrastructure, its roads, its communications, its energy, its airport. And for what?

"I find honestly -- as all Europeans do -- that the current reactions are totally disproportionate," he said Friday in a live television interview to mark France's July 14 national day.

But Chirac said that Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas movement "need to stop something which is totally inadmissible, unacceptable, irresponsible -- the rocket attacks which are now regular on Israel."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060714/wl_mideast_afp/mideastlebanonfrance_060714143751

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1. this is probably just the first step...

if you intended to strike Iran and take out their nuke development...
wouldn't you want to first minimize their capacity to strike back?
Such as destroying supply routes and incapacitating their proxy army
upon your border?

I believe this is a bigger chess game than a one-off response to a kidnapping.

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2. opportunistic pretext

Israel's Presumptive Reprisals (7-14-2006)