Israel/Lebanon

What a mess! We're all surely appalled at the personal cost of the conflict to both Lebanese and Israeli. It's always the innocent who suufer most in war and our prayers go out to them. But - and its a big "but", there is a terrorist organisation, Hizbollah, firing missiles into Israel from residential areas of Lebanon. What is Israel to do? These attacks and incursions by hizbollah have been going on for ages, and Israel cannot simply sit back and let them do it. Let's face it, if the Scottish started picking off English people in Berwick on Tweed (I think that's England!), while saying that England should not really exist, I think the English would be fighting back too! War is terrible, but its not always wrong. It wasn't wrong to confront Hitler in the 1940's, and its not wrong to combat world terrorism now. Blair and Bush were right to go into Iraq, and Israel is right to go into Lebanon. If we don't stand up against terrorists, the threat to the world is very real.

Controversial - I'd love to get some comments on this one!