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Sinora is seen as friendly to the United States. The Bush administration has urged him to disarm Hezbollah through a process of national reconciliation.

Rice asked Sinora to exercise what influence his government has to secure the freedom of the soldiers captured on Wednesday.

President George W. Bush knew well what he was doing when he rolled out the red carpet for the young new Canadian leader at the White House Thursday. For, after only half a year in office and constrained by his Conservative party’s lack of an overall majority in the Canadian House of Commons, Harper has already shown himself a loyal friend of the United States who shares the Bush administration’s strategic concerns akin to Britain’s Tony Blair and Japan’s Junichiro Koizumi.

Problem with that is, it is not their country that Israel is bombing in retaliation, so what the fuck do they care?

Then how does bombing an entire unrelated population resolve the issue? What's the justification threshold anyway - for every 2 a thousand innocents die?

The London-based Arabic language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Saturday that “Washington has information according to which Israel gave Damascus 72 hours to stop Hizbullah’s activity along the Lebanon-Israel border and bring about the release the two kidnapped IDF soldiers or it would launch an offensive with disastrous consequences.”

The beautiful viaduct that soars over the mountainside here has become a "terrorist" target. The Israelis attacked the international highway from Beirut to Damascus just after dawn yesterday and dropped a bomb clean through the central span of the Italian-built bridge a symbol of Lebanon's co-operation with the European Union sending concrete crashing hundreds of feet down into the valley beneath. It was the pride of the murdered ex-prime minister Rafik Hariri, the face of a new, emergent Lebanon. And now it is a "terrorist" target.

The calculation now is that if the Israeli Air Force rains heavy enough blows on the Lebanese population - paralysing the sea- and airports, destroying the infrastructure, bombarding residential neighborhoods, cutting the Beirut-Damascus highroad etc. - the public will get furious with Hizbullah and pressure the Lebanese government into fulfilling Israel's demands. Since the present government cannot even dream of doing so, a dictatorship will be set up with Israel's support.

Then how does bombing an entire unrelated population resolve the issue? What's the justification threshold anyway - for every 2 a thousand innocents die?

The onus is on Hezbollah and Hammas to end this by returning the Israeli soldiers, and stop firing rockets into Israel,...

The calculation now is that if the Israeli Air Force rains heavy enough blows on the Lebanese population - paralysing the sea- and airports, destroying the infrastructure, bombarding residential neighborhoods, cutting the Beirut-Damascus highroad etc. - the public will get furious with Hizbullah and pressure the Lebanese government into fulfilling Israel's demands. Since the present government cannot even dream of doing so, a dictatorship will be set up with Israel's support

The onus is on Hezbollah and Hammas to end this by returning the Israeli soldiers, and stop firing rockets into Israel, PLAIN AND SIMPLE!

So you think the hizbullah should cave to terrorist attacks cm?