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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Because they think bad thoughts? Because they didn't vote for someone who would try to disarm Hezbollah? Because they voted for Hezbollah?
What does it take to lose your innocence to the point where you deserve to become "collateral damage"? You and Penske are both dancing around that question without doing much to answer it.
Fill in the blank: Lebanese men, women and children deserved to be killed because __________.
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I don't think that there is a clear cut answer. I am not arguing for thought crimes. I believe that regardless of the state of war or peace, large portions of the population of the ME will remain anti-semitic. Not unlike how large portions of the South remained racist after the civil war or anti-semitism in W. Europe after WWII. Truly changing mindsets in that region will take generations beyond our lifetimes.
Going beyond just hateful thought (which, however does breed attitudes, actions and behaviours based on the thought), I am not saying any pure civilian DESERVES to die. NO CHILD does. they are the one true absolutely universally innocent victim. What I am saying is that large parts of the civilian population give aid, shelter, comfort and political support to Hezbollah and their Syrian sponsors because of their hatred of Israel and desire to destroy the same. Over time, a lot of time. 20-30 years they have ceded the autonomous nature of their country to Syria and Hezbollah. At some point there has to be responsibility for what you have done or passively allowed to be done in your name. Are the masses of refugees coming out and decrying Hezbollah or Syria. Is their blame spread all around? What would these same innocent cilivilans be saying if the battle went the other way and Hezbollah moved into large parts of Israel and Syria moved into the Golan? I think that in part speaks to their neutrality and innocence.
