Before I proceed further, some points: Lebanon is not Hezbollah, and Hezbollah is not Lebanon.
I have a major problem with Americans who sided openly with Hezbollah against Israel during the recent fighting. Those people chose to side with terrorists over a democracy. One common thread (especially in the media) in their supporting of Hezbollah was their pointing out all of the good works that Hezbollah does where they have a presence.
Good works, eh?
They were blindly firing lethal weapons into northern Israel and murdering people. At the same time, they placed their rocket launchers right next to peoples' houses (the very same people that Hezbollah was "helping") to insure that any Israeli retaliation would destroy the houses and whomever was inside them. Good works, indeed.
More than one Israeli military video showed the Israeli bombs hitting the launcher, then the rockets inside the launcher went off and struck nearby houses, causing the actual damage to the structures. But Israel ended up taking the blame, despite what their videos showed. Hezbollah's PR people did an amazing spin job on the entire war.
I disagreed with Israel's widespread attack on Lebanon and thought it was excessive. But I wanted Israel to destroy Hezbollah, regardless of the fate of their missing soldiers. Many others felt this way too.
But for Americans to support a terrorist organization against a democracy is revolting. And particularly since that particular terror group murdered 241 United States Marines as they were resting in their barracks in Beruit as part of a U.N. peacekeeping force in 1983. Hezbollah has American blood on their hands, and our own people would side with them against Israel?
Americans who support Hezbollah are traitors to their own country.
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