It is interesting that we listen to the news during the Israeli-Hezbollah war only to find most of the experts on the Middle East telling us that there is no way that Hezbollah can be totally defeated. Their reasons are numerous but most of the reasons stem from the fact that Hezbollah is more of a social movement now than just an international terrorist organization.

This may be true however the goal is to defeat Hezbollah the international terrorist organization and not necessarily a social movement. Likewise, it should be known and it has been recorded in human history that an idea can be defeated by another idea. After all, the concept of Hezbollah in itself is nothing more than an idea and it took a long time to create it and get synergy. If you take away this synergy and have a secondary plan or idea, which is better for all concerned and one, which involves peace then in fact you can defeat Hezbollah and the social movement behind it.

To say that Hezbollah cannot be defeated and that with each international terrorist member of the organization you kill there will be another to replace him is to admit in advance that we may as well just give up all human civilizations right now to the international terrorists and give them the keys to our largest cities throughout the world.

Excuse me for a second but that is not going to happen and it is absurd to think we cannot beat an idea with another idea. For those that look towards defeatism and have already made up their minds in advance that Hezbollah cannot be beaten or broken; they do not paint a very good picture, as to what the next step would be if that were true.

Nobody wants ethnic cleansing, but if there is a clash between worlds and cultures those that claim the ideals and concept of Hezbollah will be eliminated from the surface of the planet and we already know what happens with ethnic cleansing. Nobody wants that.

Therefore the human species needs to look forward and figure out a way to replace the idea of international terrorism with a new idea of peace and in the meantime rid the planet of the Hezbollah organization and its power structure. There is no other way. Please consider this philosophical thought in 2006.