What Can You Say, They Do What They Want

[Dingfod]

At the risk of being labeled antisemitic, I don't like what Israel is doing right now with it's attacks on Lebanon, or for that matter Gaza. It seems so disproportionate to the offenses against Israel. It doesn't matter what I think, Israel does whatever it wants regardless of what the rest of the world thinks and gets away with it because of veto power of the U.S. has in the U.N. If not for that fact, I think there would've been blue-helmeted troops occupying Israel for the last three decades or so. This latest disproportionate attack on Lebanon is just one of many examples of Israel's outlawish behavior. I recognize that Israel has the right to defend themselves, but the kidnapping of two of their border security seemed to me to be more of a police matter than what they say is "an act of war."

It concerns me that I don't see much of anyone outside of the EU or Russia really condemning this latest action, not even liberals. Of course, I'm on night shifts right now and might be a bit out of touch right now. However, I haven't seen anything here at FF about it either. Why is there no outrage?

Conservative pundits are even linking Syria and Iran to it. Of course, they want permanent war, so it figures. There always has to be a boogey-man. But, because of that, I fear the worst possible outcome will come to play, that Bush-league will use any reaction to an attack on Syria itself from Syria or Iran to be the call to war for U.S. forces, any reaction at all.

Internally, I feel conflicted. On one hand, I feel a bit of outrage, but I sympathize with those that are just unreactive because I can hardly work up any real emotion about it myself because I see it as just one more thing I can't do a damn thing about. I've already got way too many of those things in my life now.