This is so delusional and r-slurred it makes John Bolton look like a stable genius in comparison: Now that Nasrallah is dead, a president will be elected and it will solve everything.
The only times that Lebanon has barely functioned as a state is when there was consensus among the Christians, Shi'a, Sunnis, and Druze.
There's only been a few guys stupid enough to think they could "win" and dominate the whole country. They got killed once they seemed to be anywhere near to achieving that.
It's kind of hard to build up a functioning bureaucracy while everyone is cowering in bomb shelters.
People don't like to cooperate with American plans while American bombs are landing on them.
The President of Lebanon has never had the power to fix the country's real problems. In fact the constitution is set up to make sure they can't. You're going to have to keep dealing with Nabih Berri.
They desperately need lots of money. Nobody is going to lend money to them while they're getting bombed and everything will just get immediately destroyed.
I cannot emphasize this enough: Syria and Hezbollah are still capable of killing anyone in Beirut they want to. They may feel entitled to carry out assassinations given what has happened lately.
The only thing I'm wondering is if this is male autism like the "Whiz Kids" of the Vietnam War or vapid female r-sluration where midwit women from rich east coast families have been promoted up through academia and think that means they actually know what the frick they're talking about.
There's a lot of people making decisions about this stuff who apparently have no idea that exactly what they're planning to do has been tried before and it didn't work. Or maybe they know and they just don't give a shit because it's never hurt the job prospects of neocons or R2P tards that they totally failed at everything and just ended up killing lots of people.
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You do this thing where you conflate a desire to achieve a specific goal with a belief that it will magically solve all related problems.
Nobody believes the problems in Lebanon can be solved so easily. Positive change will come slowly and incrementally. But with more than a supermajority of the Lebanese people being frustrated with Hezbollah and a similar number viewing Iran as a direct enemy I personally think encouraging them to reclaim some level of agency is a step in the right direction and it's what the Labanese people seem to want.
That said, those same people all still believe in the righteousness of firing rockets at the Jews every day so it may not change Israel's stance on the situation anyway
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You know how Israel occupied parts of Lebanon for 18 years? You remember that? I remember that. That did not make people there decide that they liked Israel. That made people there (Muslim and Christian) so fricking butthurt that they eventually won a war against you.
If you really wanted Hezbollah and Iranian influence kicked out of Lebanon, that was on the verge of happening. People really fricking hated them and their position was extremely weak. And then you just have to roll in to rescue them. I honestly don't get it.
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Neighbor are you talking about Shebaa farms ?
The one Israel took from Syria.
The only claim for lebanese is that couple of Hezbs fired rockets from it
The one UN diplomats cant find on a map.
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No you r-slurred zoomer.
I'm talking about the 1982-2000 Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon. It was this big war. It was... there's a bunch of Israeli movies about it if you don't believe me. There's a whole generation of Israeli guys who had to fight there.
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Sheeeeeeet that's crazy. I wish they hadn't taken time out to film 20 movies about it. I wish they could have just blown up the Lebanese instead
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We all make mistakes.
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If they didn't care about creating quality content than why film it in the first place
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I liked "Waltz with Bashir" much more than I expected to back when me and the wife were trying to watch ALL the Oscar noms.
I still hum the "Lebanon Boker Tov" song from time to time.
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Irrelevant. I'm not getting in to a back and forth about the tit for tat justifications through history which lead to today. The point is the ultimate reality is that many Lebanese still support military action against Israel, and so a democratic government may not change Israel's view of the country assuming the policy of that government would be shaped around that existing perception.
Waiting around for the genocidal extremists to be ousted by their own people for a slight chance that they might stop lobbing rockets your way may seem like a convenient position to take for you. But you live without the daily threat of death from above, and with a home in a relatively safe place that you can come back to every day after work. This is not the reality of the people you confidently comment about on the internet. They may not view waiting as desirable. Not to mention that your amateur assessment of Hezbollah's "extreme" weakness is "extremely" arguable.
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Isn't it interesting how leftoids think Palestinians/Arabs are agency-free robots when it comes to reacting to Israeli attacks -- but Israelis are supposed to be enlightened monks in response to attacks on them? !jidf
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Almost as if its black and white thinking. Or
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Leftists hate strength and success. Uncle Ted already told us so.
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You are so whiny my god. Just let Israel have little a land who is it gonna hurt??
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Israelis.
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