Originally posted by Wombat
Hizboulah does not want to be a part of a government. It weakens their position if they can be blamed as part of the problem. They already turned down cabinet seats offered by Arafat.
Hizboulah does not want to be a part of a government. It weakens their position if they can be blamed as part of the problem. They already turned down cabinet seats offered by Arafat.
you have your facts twisted around a litle ..... Hizboula is in lebanon... arafat is in palestine.... ???? where do the cabinet seats come in.....
apart from being a militia (one that should have been disbanded since the israilies withdrew) hiszboula is also a political party with seets in the parlament and cabinet........
they are not asking for an independant islamic state... they have come to realise, like thier predesesors that in lebanon that canont be acheeved......
and to be honest hizboula is by far less corupt than some of the other locals here.. (not that they are not crupt but they are not the wors...) what makes hisboula worse than anyone else is that they are the only faction after the war that retaind its militia openly..... there are others (the christians, other muslims and druz but officialy they disarmed... most of the christian militia IS disarmed but i have my doubts)
as long as the israilis where ocupiying south lebanon the militia was legit...... but IMHO that should have been the task of the army instead... now that the israilis are out (except for the shebaa farms) everyone expected hisboula to throw down their armes... but the situation in lebanon is soooooooooooooo complex and mudled with sooooooo much curuption that untill now that did not hapen.... also being a semi pupet govt of syria dosent help.... but there is a peafull solution IF and only IF you know how to aproch it.... coming in guns blasing throwing around threats simply wont work...... and the other sulution is just tooo bloody..... and will see the start of a new civil war.....
Doc... the way you post realy wories me..... though you do have most of your facts inplace you do not understand the way things work here.... difrent culture .. difrent ways of doing things.... there is always more than one way... look at them all and try the peacfull ones first (try them out in the proper way) this offcourse will meen that both the US and mostly Israil will have to make some consetions but it will work..... when two parties refuse to sit down and listen to each other there cannot be peace...... and belive me when i say that you would be surprised to see wht can be acomplished this way....
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