No wonder Carter was such a fan
Jimmy Carter has refused to call Hamas a terrorist organization, and now Carter’s former Chief of Mission to Iraq Ed Peck won’t call Hezbollah a terrorist organization – but compares WWII veterans to terrorists.
Israel being blamed for UN’s failure to get UN observers out of the line of fire
Isn’t this just typical? World leaders and other talking heads are crawling out of the woodwork to slam Israel for repeated aerial and artillary attacks near or on a UN post in southern Lebanon. As I noted in an earlier post this week, UN Sec. General Kofi Annan accused Israel of deliberately targeting the post, as if to suggest that it was UN workers themselves who were being targeted. They were not. Israel was targeting nearby Hezbollah terrorists who were using the UN post and surrounding areas as a cover of sorts. Via the UK Independent:
He’s not right very often, but when he is …
… he’s very very right (no pun intended). I’m talking about Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who has written a scathing piece that lays out the case for how the do-nothings at the UN legitimizes terrorists. A snippet:
Kerry echoes Dean talking point on Israel/Lebanon conflict: This wouldn’t have happened had he been president
These guys just never cease to amaze me. Via the Detroit News (emphasis added):
Showing gratitude to our troops for helping evacuate US citizens in Lebanon
This past week we’ve seen an embarassing amount of public ungratefulness shown by US citizens in Lebanon complaining about the evacuation process (for starters ‘why should we have to pay the US gov’t for our evacuation?’ and ‘if you’re gonna bring food for us, bring it for others!!!!’ and ‘what’s takin’ you so long?’). I hope the folks complaining loudest about the ‘slow’ evacuation process to the media don’t take it out on our fine military men and women helping to evacuate them, but in case it has, Malkin has up a great post expressing MUCH thanks to US military servicemen and women who are taking part in the evacuation of Americans from Lebanon.
Question of the day
Ok, here’s the scenario: