Kreskin said:
Simpleton said:
It's a simple concept: Short-term pain for long-term gain. It's the international equivalent of having a brain tumour that causes intermittent headaches. You can take aspirin and tolerate the headaches till your dying day, or you can have surgery and get rid of the tumour.
Sure, surgery is a lot more expensive in the near-term than say, aspirin; there will be some discomfort and pain, and your life will be interrupted for a while, but in the long run, you will be able to enjoy life without the headaches. Even if it means that you're going to be stuck making healthcare payments for a couple of years.
But at least the headaches will be gone... and you will no longer have to cruise down the pain reliever aisle of your local grocery store. :wink:
Like a prescription for Extra Strength Shrub?
Are you suggesting that Isreal and Lebanon/Hezbollah are engaged in a little recreational war?
This is a war to settle a legitimate dispute. They're not fighting for the "high." They're fighting for the right to coexist in a peaceful and unmolested fashion. Hezbollah has been a constant headache to the people of Israel -- a painful, destructive, and fatal series of headaches. Israel wants a cure.
With as close to surgical precision as is humanly possible, Israel is actively targetting the Hezbollah with the objective of eliminating them. The kidnappings have to end, the indiscriminate rocket launches must be halted, and the idea that Israel must cease as a nation and people, must be destroyed. Israel has nowhere else to go, but to war. This is hardly a recreational war, it is a war of survival. It is a war of necessity.
To suggest that Isreal should just lighten up and smoke some weed, is utterly preposterous. We have seen the history in that region. We have seen Israel make every attempt at appeasement, yet the attacks by Hezbollah and others persist. How can we arrogantly and ignorantly demand that Israel relinquish its God given right to defend itself, and simultaneously stand silent on the issue of dealing with the instigator -- Hezbollah. This is not a hockey game, where the instigator gets a two minute additional penalty, and the game ends after the third period. We're talking about insane warlords that don't give a damn about the lives of the Israelis, Lebonese, or any other human beings. We are talking about people that can only be dealt with by their very own tactics. And this, of course, means war.
Don't play with matches at gas stations because eventually it's going to blow. If you're watching the news, you can see that it has blown. And the arsonist is Hezbollah.
