Reply #35: Hezbollah and Lebanon are 2 Different Entities. [View All]

It is possible for people to wish that Hezbollah be weakened without supporting Israel's destruction of Lebanon.

You, and people like you, such as Alan Dershowitz, cannot seem to separate the two, so let's try to create an analogy that could be applicable to the United States.

The KKK was a powerful entity in Mississippi, causing terror in the hearts of millions while killing and maiming thousands. By following Israel's current logic, the best way for us to have removed the threat of the KKK would have been to bomb Mississippi from one end to another, killing scores and scores of women and children.

Now, you may hate the KKK so much to be able to say, "Sure, that's exactly what we should have done." But a more reasoned, rational response would be to see that that kind of wanton destruction of innocent life would only make the KKK dig in harder. It would also create enormous sympathy for them and generate a lot of new recruits to the cause.

Now, my above comparison between the KKK and Hezbollah is not a precise analogy, but I hope you will forgive me that and simply hear the logic I'm trying to express to you.

Hamas is also pretty nasty in Palestine. Do you condone the wanton, absolute destruction of the Palestinian people?

And do you not see the supreme irony of anyone of the Jewish faith debating the merits of totally destroying a particular race in order to protect their own?

Can we no longer tell how much madness grips us in this most violent millenium?