The Middle East is like a triangle of hate. On the northern corner is Hizballah/Lebanon, on the south Israel, and on the east all the other Arab countries with the far east corner being Iran. While the hate tends to eminate from the north and east, there is plenty of the reciprical variety on the south. Right now America is in the middle and apparently, all by ourselves.
The international left is also part of this irrational cycle of hatred, but theirs is directed towards Israel. This is hard to figure, since Israel is a somewhat permissive democracy while their terrorist foes are perhaps the most intolerant fascists on the planet. For example, a gay pride parade in Tel Aviv was canceled due to the rocket attacks. Can anyone explain this?
Obviously the UN accident was tragic and is the worst thing possible for the Israel right now, but at least it gave everyone a chance to see which side Kofi Annan comes down on. Hopefully he didn't injure himself with that knee-jerk. It also gave everyone a chance to see that UN peacekeeping troops are useless in this area, and if they go down that road again it will fail again.
That's why the Bush administration is absolutely correct in not pressing Israel to cease their fire. Current IDF actions are clearly part of the war on terror, and may serve to finally flush out the state sponsors for all the world to see. If the Arab countries want to sign up with Hizballah to fight the Jews, and that includes al-Maliki's new government in Iraq, then let them. Such would provide incontrovertable evidence of which side they have chosen in this global struggle.
WHY? 7/26/06
Hasn't there been a worldwide call for Kofi Annan's immediate resignation? He botched Iraq, Kosovo, was in charge during the massive corruption of the OFFP and was in charge of the ineffective UNIFIL force based in Lebanon. Not to mention the genocides in Africa. His massive jump to conclusion on the bombing should have been the last, last straw.
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