--On Tuesday, August 29, 2006 17:34:24 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:55:09 CDT, Paul Schmehl said:
> 1] Hezbollah has managed to become an important presence in the
> Lebanese Parliament
They just left out - by killing opposition leaders and threatening
others.
Like your government doesn't do that too?
Uh....right.
> 3] It has gained support for this power by providing health care [to
> an unnamed population]
Ditto. And ask those southern Lebanese how they feel about those health
services now. Hezbollah built ammo dumps under schools and hospitals.
Did the BBC tell you that?
The case can be made that putting ammo dumps there is actually *saving*
human life, because the Hezbollah people know we won't bomb a school. If
they put the dumps out where we'd be tempted to bomb them, the resulting
explosion could easily kill and maim people for a long distance around.
So it's just Hezbollah removing the temptation from us to kill everybody
in a half-mile radius. :)
The case could be made that terrorists are "saving" the environment by
thinning the herd.
I won't be the one making it though.
> 4] It has a tv station, which is influential [it is not stated if this
> is a cause or an effect]
>
They left out - a virulently anti-semitic terrorist propaganda outlet
that spews so much hatred that they've been banned from every Eurpopean
country.
And our leadership didn't spew hatred in order to get the War on Terror
going?
Sure thing, Valdis. Love the moral equivalency.
Pot, Kettle, you call the color, Paul.
The color? Yellow.
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
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The University of Texas at Dallas
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