change is not a one-way streetNov 12th, 2008 - 08:08:20

Hezbollah is the hate group that needs to change, and that is where the rest of the world sees no change.

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ChristianNov 12th, 2008 - 14:24:53

Nasrallah are right; there will be no change, just more illegal wars and blood of innocents.

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sandbox rhetoricNov 12th, 2008 - 14:31:16

The moralizing of politics is exactly what prevents any movement in US policy and ends up making conflicts worse than they have to be. Hezbollah is not a 'hate group.' It's a political party in Lebanon, and it is recognized as such by the state in which it exists. It represents what is probably the majority of the population in a state organized along the lines of religious sects (not a good idea but is one of the consequences of the French mandate period). It is armed, because the Lebanonese army is weak and cannot defend the state; it's difficult to call Lebanon a 'nation' given its civil strife, again a product of setting up a state along sectarian lines, as the US has done in Iraq.

These are facts, whether anyone 'likes' Hezbollah, or whatever status assigned to it by the US State Dept. It's better to deal in facts on the M.E. than to get carried away by the rhetoric that surrounds Israel and its neighbors; repeating right-wing Israeli rhetoric will get you no where fast in trying to figure out the region.

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change is not a one-way streetNov 13th, 2008 - 08:58:50

I stand corrected. Hezbollah is a hate 'party'.

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change is not a one-way streetNov 13th, 2008 - 09:04:28

Just like the Nazi's were a hate party.

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To Change or Not to ChangeDec 9th, 2008 - 09:47:59

I stand corrected again.

'Just like the Nazi's [sic] were a hate party.'
Just like the Nazis were a hate party.

How can anyone make the right judgments without some kind of moral guidance, whether in the political realm or not? How can a people improve their lot without a moral conscience that distinguishes right from wrong? One may want to separate ethics from life, but one can not do so without causing a recycling of our tendencies to be terrifyingly destructive to one another.

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