Exploding pagers injure hundreds in attack targeting Hezbollah members, Lebanese security source says

[thucythucy]

229. I notice you never answered my question.

You said no one is "creditably threatening" the existence of Israel, so evidently you think retaliating against those who fire rockets into Israel and kill Israeli children is therefore unjustified.

I mentioned that the Japanese Empire never "creditably threatened" the existence of the United States.

So American action after Pearl Harbor was therefore unjustified?

Did Osama bin Laden "credibly threaten" the existence of the United States?

Should we therefore not have gone after him in his hideaway in Pakistan?

So killing the citizens of a nation isn't enough? One has to "credibly threaten" the very existence of that nation, or else any action taken against those who attack it and kill its citizens is what? A war crime?

Just asking for a little clarification here.