How does bombing work places and destroying economy route Terrorism?

[KoKo]

How does killing civilians and depriving them of access to food and medical care destroy terrorism? How does creating thousands of refugees in tent cities spread democracy and route out terrorism? :cry:

The Latest from Lebanon:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060723/ap_on_re_mi_ea/lebanon_israel;_ylt=AsgaUxvHgZoyYTgBlE9iEbSs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

Israeli jets target Hezbollah strongholds
Israel also hit inside the southern port of Sidon for the first time in its campaign, destroying a religious complex linked to Hezbollah and wounding four people. More than 35,000 people streaming north from the heart of the war zone had swamped the city, which is teetering under the weight of refugees.

Israel also bombed a textile factory in the border town of al-Manara, killing one person and wounding two, Mayor Ali Rahal told The Associated Press.

Warplanes and helicopters bombed Nabi Sheet, in the hills near the eastern Bekaa Valley town of Baalbek, wounding at least five people, witnesses said. In Baalbek, strikes leveled an agricultural compound belonging to Hezbollah. Raids also targeted a factory producing prefab houses near the main highway that links Beirut to the Syrian capital of Damascus, witnesses said.

Two civilians died in early morning air raids that hit villages along the border, witnesses said. A 15-year-old boy was killed at Meis al-Jabal, and a man was killed at Blida.

The three deaths, if confirmed, would raise to 375 the official death toll provided by Lebanese authorities.

Israel's death toll stands at 36, with 17 people killed by Hezbollah rockets and 19 soldiers killed in fighting.

Fuel, food and some medicines were already tight for Sidon's own population of 100,000 and nearly impossible to replenish.

"There are no supplies reaching us, not from other nations, nor from the Lebanese government," said Mayor Abdul-Rahman al-Bizri, whose city was so packed that Palestinian refugees were taking in Lebanese refugees.

Sidon was only one face of the mounting humanitarian crisis across Lebanon amid an Israeli blockade and bombardment that has made roads unusable or too dangerous to distribute supplies to the south, where Israel is battling Hezbollah guerrillas.

The Israeli military has announced that humanitarian aid could enter through Beirut's port and determined a coastal to Tripoli as a land corridor for aid. But it did not define a safe passage route to the south — where the bombardment is heaviest.

Aid supplies arrived on Friday and Saturday on ships that were picking up Europeans fleeing the country. The exodus of foreigners continues, with tens of thousands — including 7,500 Americans — taken out by sea the past week.

[tocqueville]

1. it doesn't and on the contrary creates it

example above

[madrchsod]

4. i heard last night that many if not all

the people in south Beirut are fleeing to the christian neighborhoods in the hills...i wonder if the idf will follow them there?

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. They've been bombing

in those areas too. It is apparent the Israelis are targetting a lot more the Hezbollah.

[pretzel4gore]

2. the israeli gov appears to be war criminals

the pigmedia is covering for them so one can just imagine the atrocity that's going on....

[madrchsod]

3. i heard the bbc news last night from sidon

no reliable power,food,water,medicine in short supply. the population has increased by 40,000,people are sleeping on the ground..a hospital was damaged when the idf blew up a building across the street. there is no way out of sidon because the main bridge was destroyed.the petrol supply for the city is still burning after the idf bombed the facility several days ago...there is no way out of sidon........collective punishment? or rooting out terrorists?

to be fair the idf spokesman said everything is fine in sidon and everyone is free to leave.....

several people were injured including children in the building that was bombed .the idf dropped leaflets telling them to go to sidon because it was a "safe city"...

[misternormal]

6. None of this is about terrorism...

... This is about a centuries old battle for land and supremacy in the middle east... It is the opportunists of the * administration, along with corporate assholes that see a shit-load of money to be made on oil and charging DOD prices to "help" rebuild in the region, that are making this what it is not.... And the *bots are drinking it up.

[KoKo]

7. Bombing and then rebuilding ...then bombing again and the money for

new bombs to replace the bombs that were used to destroy.

Yes. Profits...it's all about "business." :-( That's what they say when one gets fired from jobs or layed off these days. All about business...not your fault.

[KoKo]

8. Kick...because the "Little Peopleof the World" really want to understand

how this can be happening...

[magellan]

9. Maybe it wasn't "rout terrorism" but "rout tourism"

Lebanon tourism suffers as travelers flee

...Tourism Minister Joe Sarkis had predicted a record 1.6 million visitors by the end of the year and revenues topping $2 billion. This week, he was warning of hundreds of millions of dollars in losses and repair costs from Israel's air assault, triggered by Hezbollah's July 12 capture of two Israeli soldiers.

snip

A small country with no natural resources, Lebanon relies on tourism for about 12% of its national income. Its open society is a magnet for residents of conservative Arab countries, where alcohol is mostly banned and partying in public is largely frowned upon.

[KoKo]

10. I'm still on this sad post from early this a.m.....How many more have died

How many more WILL die....while Karl Rove kicks his "marketing strategy" into high gear for Novemeber elections?

Not easy being "gamed" here in America while Bush/Cheney/NeoCon's Failed Policies are used for "Armageddon" and most Americans go off to the "shore and Mountains" for holidays and we are here in the "bunker" fighting them off.