Pure Stupidity? Something Else?

[Seth Ackerman]

Max Sawicky wrote:
> . . . Likud is a legitimate party, even though it grew out of
> terrorist paramilitaries. Therefore, US hostility to Hezbollah can't
> logically stem from its own roots as a paramilitary organization. It must
be
> something else.    Seth
>
>
> I'd be happy to participate in boiling the Likud in a vat of
> matzoh ball soup, but the solution to this contradition is
> simple.  Likud has state power; Hezb doesn't
.
Yet Israel's right-wing opposition parties aren't getting their assets
frozen either.


> So one need not bother with
> recognizing the latter, while one cannot avoid dealing
> with the former.
.
The US isn't declining to recognize Hezbollah. They're demanding that
Lebanon dismantle it. Why?


> If the Likud drove airplanes into U.S.
> skyscrapers, natch state-to-state relations would
> undergo a chill.
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Max, the whole point is that Hezbollah never drove airplanes into buildings.

Seth