Someone explain to me why two captured Israeli soldiers are worth the

[saracat]

lives of 7 Canadians , 200 Lebanese,and 24 other Israelis, including 12 soldiers? This pride is killing hundreds of people and that is what I think it is. Any other ideas? I am not saying they should not protect their soldiers but killing hundreds as the result of a kidnapping is barbaric and makes Israel worse than those who took the two soldiers.Both sides in this are wrong and should be condemned and Israel shouldn't get a pass because they are our ally.They seem perfectly comfortable in risking a world war to make their point. This is madness. They KNEW that They would be attacked in return if they did this.They also know they are the superior military power therfore they have a greater obligation to control this situation. Instead they blast everything to smithereens.

[Mind_your_head]

1. Maybe that's why people don't respond.....

...it makes NO SENSE. And "sane" people always 'keep their distance' from the crazies (lest they become crazy themselves).

That's my theory anywayz.

[checkmate1947]

2. My question

if they aren't worth that,,, then what are they worth???

[Solon]

4. Using that as a justification means every single man, woman, and child...

in the United States needs to be eliminated for what we did in Iraq.

There is such a thing as PROPORTIONAL response, rather than overreaction.

[checkmate1947]

6. I am not justifiying

I am simply asking, if their lives our anybody's lives for that matter are to sacrificed then what is the price, once you begin to lose the value of human life, you begin a downward spiral to valueing it less and less

[Solon]

8. That's already happened, even on this board...

So far I saw one post saying that Arabs aren't worth the same as Israelis, and another person said they don't care that their own countrymen have been killed(the Canadian family). So really, would negotiation, and/or, a small scale rescue operation have been that hard to do FIRST?

[Cleita]

12. I agree with you and I know deep inside of me that

life is very frail and very special, even the life of lower species. Every life has worth and needs to be protected to the best of the ability of those who are able to protect it. I remember years ago a "soldier of fortune" type I knew saying that what was different about the USA is that life wasn't cheap. He said that in other parts of the world it was cheap and disposable. Times have changed and I'm sure he is long dead, but his words stick with me.

[Minnesota Libra]

3. "Both sides in this are wrong and should be condemned..." That's..........

....among the more fair comments I've seen on the whole issue and is certainly the truth.

[wakeme2008]

5. And when you add the two captured soldiers were in Lebanon at the time

they were caught, it is making no sense at all.

[Igel]

7. That's been thoroughly enough refuted.

Like the Israeli Embassy in London was warned ahead of time by 7/7. Or no Jews were in the WTC.

Hey! It was in a newspaper, it *must* be true.

[wakeme2008]

11. Well then where is the REFUTE

:grr:

[Igel]

14. Pretty much any newspaper or

tv broadcast relying on AP/Reuters accounts posted more than 12 hours after the event. You have access to dogpile as well as I do.

I don't know if you have a star (I certainly don't), but enough of a variety of links have been posted on DU that a DU search would do.

[Igel]

9. When enough people in Lebanon ask why

retaining the 2 soldiers is worth all the bloodshed, there may be some progress.

So far, all the news seems to be that Lebanese Shi'ites are wondering what the big deal is, actually wanting the release of the captives and stopping the bombs from falling in Israel in peacetime.

Hezbollah probably didn't know it would be this bad. But at this point, if Israel stops, Hezbollah will come back more powerful, and control more in Lebanon, and rearm. When it rearms, it will be in a stronger position to try to kill more Israelis.

[wakeme2008]

13. How about when the Israeli people ask their leaders

why are you killing kids on both side for these soldiers.

[The2ndWheel]

10. Because they've been planning this military action for years

Whether they should plan these type of things, I don't know. It's a state, and that's what states do. When you have standing armies, they're going to be used eventually.