I just can't believe they put a rush order on a shipment of questionable weaponry to Israel, gracie - that's the only part that bothers me. They're still clearing away the unexploded carpet bombs from southern Lebanon, and will probably be doing so for years if Bosnia is any indication. We still have more landmines in Sarajevo than people, 10 years and millions of dollars later.
And the American media was good to us. When three girls were killed by a landmine in their school's playground in Sarajevo a few years ago, the American media told it like it was.
When the same thing happened in Palestine, the Americans said the four boys killed "kicked unexploded ordinance". The European media, though, told it as it was. They interviewed the Israeli military asking why an improvised landmine was placed in a Palestinian schoolyard. The official being questioned admitted it was a bomb and it was placed by the Israelis and promised to "investigate" why it was placed there. Even then the American media said nothing of it.
That sort of bias just makes me crazy. And then you see on their news, "Well, people are saying President Bush should get more involved in the conflict in the Middle East" - oh go **** yourselves, you ********. You couldn't be more involved, not for peace but for supporting a single side, if you wanted to. The only thing you could do more is admit what you're already doing.
But that's fine. People can believe that completely destroying an entire country, killing hundreds of civilians, and making hundreds of thousands homeless is an appropriate response to the kidnapping of two soldiers, even if it is illegal.
I just hope they're able to stomach it when Israel begins to get such responses from Arab states in the name of self-defense. Because it will happen. As the Palestinians say: The Romans came and went, the Ottomans came and went, the Europeans came and went... the only thing that has remained constant, is us.
