The situation is a real mess. There are two directly involved parties, and a few in the background, which could come in to the story at any time. I’m trying to think of more optimistic scenarios, and every now and then I convince my self this whole issue will dissolve soon.
There’s more and more talk of the possibility of Syria getting involved in the conflict. My view is that Syria will only get involved if they were drawn into the war by Israel. There’s no contest in a war against Israel, and Syria knows that very well.
This summer is supposed to be my first time back in Syria, after a long 5 year absence. I’m crossing my finger everything will go as planned. Having my whole family back there, and thinking of a possible strike, leaves me feeling helpless and quite frankly, extremely stressed. I can only imagine how worried Lebanese expatriates are feeling right now.
Sometimes you wonder, with all the laser guided missiles, satellite tracking, and ultra sophisticated electronics, why civilians get hit all the time… In one case a family of ten, the parents and 10 children all died when a missile buried them alive underneath their home. What did they do to deserve this? Are the innocent children’s lives a small price to pay for the release of two soldiers?
technorati tags: Lebanon, Hezbollah, Israel, War, Middle, East, Innocent, Civilians
4 Comments:
At 7/17/2006 2:46 AM,
Anonymous said…
haider droubi, you should check your vacabulary and find the definition of massacre, before you use such hard words (which become cheaper and cheaper these days).
It is a very good questions though why the civilians are dieing. It seems that we are entering a new era of wars where an established state army is facing a non-governmental, semi-guerilla, but well organized and financed army. The new situation is that this new non-gvernmental army has a totally differnet, network structure and is heavily rooted in civilian areas. While an established army has bases, this semi-guerilla army is spread around civilian neighborhoods and in people's homes. Now, how do you fight it? And not only that, but the high probability of civilians getting hurt has become a factor of the non-governmental army's strategy. The more civilians are getting killed and/or hurt in Lebanin, the weaker Israel's case is becoming and Hizbollah is definitely counting on that. And the question again, how do you fight a rocket louncher placed at the center of a village without harming the villagers?
Having said all that, and knowing that it doesn't sound too PC in the current situation, given the amount of ammunition fired on Lebanon and given the degree of distruction created, 100 deaths is surprisingly low (of course it would better is there were no casualties at all or even better there was no war in the first place). So, yes, there is war going on, but there is by no means a massacre.
At 7/17/2006 9:54 AM,
Anonymous said…
Hopefully it won't reach Syria or Iran. Oh what am I saying, oil, Golan Heights, duh.
Sorry, I hope your family stays safe
But have you read Robert Fisk's latest piece in The Independent?
At 7/19/2006 11:49 PM,
x said…
thanks Queenie,
no do you have a link?
At 7/20/2006 9:32 AM,
Anonymous said…
Here you go: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article1180160.ece
:)
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