>My god, what kind of "victory" would that have been? Are people too lazy
>or tired to reject the idea of having to choose one or another side when
>both are wrong? Are you going to sign up for the Ahmadinejad fan club too?
I am a bit more sceptical of yer man than Yoshie is, but I think she made a lot of excellent points too.
On the specific matter of what kind of victory it would have been, I can only wonder at the total failure of political imagination that insists that "both are wrong". Both are not wrong. Hezbollah is right - it is fighting Israeli aggression, and it is right to do so. This is why the Arab left, not least the Lebanese Communist Party, supports Hezbollah. This is why residents of Lebanese suburbs support Hezbollah. The former, by the way, do not do so without discrimination or criticism.
Yes, a Hezbollah flag sticking out of the US Embassy when America is directing Israel to blow the shit out of Lebanese civilians under the rubric of an attack on Hezbollah would have been a wonderful spectacle. You'd have to be totally lacking in humour to miss that.
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