Reply #36: Re: "the retaliatory attack on the Marines"

[mallard]

Yes and although I don't recall Reagan inviting Israel to invade Lebanon in '82, that event had stirred quite a call for revenge by nationalists recruited into this kind of terrorist 'organization' seeking payback.

People who might agree the invasion of Iraq has been another futile exercise in created an enemy where one didn't previously exist, might also take a lesson ignored from that '82 invasion.

Without the violent enemy invasions create, there's no room for escalated confrontation, for the counter-charges of racism over horrific labels like 'evil', getting pushed as if invasion were less significant.

Yes we have made our enemies in partnership with Isael, no doubt about it. Can they be totally demonized for hating us when cause death displacement and even torure detainees who may be innocent?

Israel was wrong to invade back then, wrong to bomb Saddam's nuke plant the year before. Am I an evil element for saying blatant opportunistic acts of war are not the way to go?