A subtle difference
Half a million 700,000 Lebanese are fleeing as their homes are being wasted and their infrastructure destroyed. The last time the world saw a similar campaign of ethnic cleansing, it led to Slobodan Milošević being tried for war crimes in the Hague.
In fact, when Milošević commenced his vile offensive in Kosovo, Serbia was already the target of NATO’s first-ever war — a war involving 38,004 combat sorties and nearly depleting US stocks of cruise missiles. At least 500 civilians were killed.
Israel, too, is at the receiving end of US bombs. However, there is a subtle difference in the mode of delivery this time:
WASHINGTON, July 21 — The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, American officials said Friday.
The decision to quickly ship the weapons to Israel was made with relatively little debate within the Bush administration, the officials said.
Are there huge demonstrations in Washington against this evil madness? But of course not! See, this terrorist child urgently needs to be bombed some more:
I’ll be honest. This has gone too far. Right now I hate the whole United States of fucking America.* Maybe the feeling will pass, and maybe it won’t.
*) Naturally, individuals are judged on their merits.
