Sorry to interrupt the highly intellectual conversation that everyone is so eagerly partaking in as usual (1 M14er makes a comment and the next 20 comments are from M8ers attacking him - original guys, go for the low-hanging fruit), but I've got a question... What is the significance of SHN making this statement? Obviously they made a mistake when they shot down that helicopter. What makes this such a revolutionary thing? Have we come to expect so little of our politicians / religious authorities that when they say something obvious we need to congratulate them for it?
When you have an armed entity such as HA that is accountable to no one in Lebanon, is armed to the teeth, and fights in a decentralized, guerrilla style way, this kind of thing is going to happen every so often. Unless someone can prove that they did it on purpose (btw if they did, what would be the motivation?), let's end it here... Let's accept that this divine hero who shot down the helicopter served his time in jail and is now once again racking up the karma points, maybe by fulfilling his jihadist duty in Syria.
The real question is whether HA as it exists today is something that the Lebanese people want/need, and if the answer is yes, then occasionally an incident such as this can happen. But if we're going to be criticizing people for attacking the army, let's start first with those who did it on purpose and were proud of it in their sermons and videos on YouTube, and of course whichever idiots are defending them.