Reply #78: I am not arguing that there are not many people who would like to [View All]

destroy Israel, but the fact of the matter is that Hezbollah was formed as a direct reaction to Israel's invasion of Lebanon.

"Hezbollah - or Party of God - emerged in Lebanon in the early 1980s and became the region's leading radical Islamic movement, determined to drive Israeli troops from Lebanon."

and

"Hezbollah was conceived in 1982 by a group of clerics after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. It was formed primarily to offer resistance to the Israeli occupation."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1908671.stm

That is fact. The question is whether another invasion of Lebanon by Israel would eliminate Hezbollah or merely recruit more members? I think we've seen what happened when we invaded Iraq. A lot of people out there who didn't like the U.S. become radicalized when they saw the suffering inflicted on a civilian population.