Gimbol's diatribe and screed

Time for a geography lesson

For any of you avidly following the Iggy expedition digging its way to China, I offer a related respite to sweep the cobwebs from your mind.

Seeing as the issue being discussed is surrounding who is and who isn't committing crimes, I'd like to offer a related topic regarding geography.

Can anyone correctly identify the countries named Hezbolla and Hamas?

I know I can find Israel, a country that qualifies all the rules to be recognized as a nation, namely that they have control of their borders and actively maintain them. But I can't seem to find any countries that go by the other two names.

So if they aren't a nation themselves, and no country seems to want to take ownership of them, doesn't that make them just an organization of sorts? Maybe even a criminal one into acts of extortion, kidnapping, and hit jobs against an identifiable group? And as they have been involved in military action against Israel, does this also not support a contention that their actions are either an invasion, insurrection, or an act of war?
The point is that those acts are a threat to the security of the nation being attacked, and under international law any country that refuses to take action against such acts loses its legitimacy.

For any liberals that worship at the altar of Trudeau, this was part of the reason he decided the war measures act wasn't such a bad thing in October of 1970.

Further more theres a name for these types of groups, we call them terrorists. The world bodies identify this type of action as crimes against humanity.
Things generally go to hell in a hand basket when a country can't keep these folks from establishing operations inside their borders.
Theres another word for that kind of outcome, its called a failed state.
Which is where I like to point out is exactly what happened in Afghanistan and why Canada is there helping to rebuild a legitimate government that can take its rightful obligations in the international community.

Here endeth the lesson.

Please resume the Iggy leadership death watch.

posted by gimbol @ 7:47 PM