U.S. Appears to Be Waiting to Act on Israeli Airstrikes - New York Times
Someone is going to have to tell me how bombing a Christian neigborhood, Ashrafiyeh, in Beirut has anything to do with dminishing the capacity of Hezbollah. How does the murder of Lebanese civilians hurt Hezbollah? 285 Lebanese have been killed in this campaign by Israelis, and 25 Israelis have been killed by Hezbollah. Am I the only one who thinks that this is complete lunacy?
Furthermore, we are going to let Israel bomb innocent people (because if you really still think that they are just after Hezbollah, you need to be smacked really hard) for another week before we do anything.
I'm at a loss for words at the horror and inhumanity of this entire situation from start to finish.
A colleague today asked whether people were discussing how much Bush's position on this is influenced by his millenial vision of Christianity, or how much his neo-con politics might be influencing his use of religion, and how either way, this is an atrocity. Our sitting out of this and our bullheaded refusal to rein in Israel is a flat out disgrace.
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
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We can not seriously believe that anything good will come of the Israeli and US action relative to Hezbollah. Iran and Syria will continue to support Hezbollah and we will have a greater level of conflict in the middle east. Arab/Islamic states must take the lead to avoid WWIII. We have lost what ever diplomatic power we had before September 11, 2001.
Further comment on: Grandpa's Grumbles
http://reinsel.blogspot.com/2006/07/crisis-in-middle-east.html
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