"Don't Make Me Come Down There" - God
I wish I could go on and on about the space shuttle and how great it has been to have a successful mission thus far.
But I can't.
The hoo-ha in the Middle East is really pissing me off so I have to go on about that.
Okay I understand that Israel is upset over the abduction of two of their guys. But really this happens all the time and they ought to have a coping system in place. A system that does not include bombing the Palestinian Ministry and beating the heck outta Lebanon. This whole mine's bigger than yours so I'm going to kick your ass across the desert thing has got to stop.
I know that Hezbollah long ago declared it their mission to wipe Israel off the planet but guys... people have been trying to do that for centuries, millennia even, it ain't happening. And really, since members of Hamas (which a lot of folks put in the same basket as Hezbollah) have been elected to the leadership in Palestine we really need to find a way to work together for peace.
And I do not mean Peace Through Superior Firepower. Hezbollah is not going to disarm when you are bombing them. They are just gonna get mad and shoot back. You'd think after decades of this sort of thing somebody in Israel would get a clue. And I'm sorry but claiming you are doing this to free your neighbor from the terrorists is just lame. (see http://www.cnn.com for details on the UN story).
What concerns me is how the U.S. is going to react. We seem honor bound to take Israel's side in everything but in this case I think they are just plain wrong. Bombing Lebanon, shouting at Syria and generally shooting anything that moves is not going to bring anything remotely resembling peace and it is not going to get those two guys back.
Somebody has got to be the parent. Maybe that's the U.S. maybe not. But we should not just stand by and let Lebanon get bombed to pieces. And we certainly should not fan the flames by dragging Syria and Iran into the mix by blaming them for supporting Hezbollah (which, okay they tend to) as our lovely UN Rep has been doing today. What the hell does that have to do with the fighting in Lebanon right now? Very little. All it does is muddy the waters at the moment. That man should never have gotten that post but that is another rant for another day.
I tell ya one thing, that billboard of God's with the comment: "Don't Make Me Come Down There" makes a whole lot of sense right about now...
But I can't.
The hoo-ha in the Middle East is really pissing me off so I have to go on about that.
Okay I understand that Israel is upset over the abduction of two of their guys. But really this happens all the time and they ought to have a coping system in place. A system that does not include bombing the Palestinian Ministry and beating the heck outta Lebanon. This whole mine's bigger than yours so I'm going to kick your ass across the desert thing has got to stop.
I know that Hezbollah long ago declared it their mission to wipe Israel off the planet but guys... people have been trying to do that for centuries, millennia even, it ain't happening. And really, since members of Hamas (which a lot of folks put in the same basket as Hezbollah) have been elected to the leadership in Palestine we really need to find a way to work together for peace.
And I do not mean Peace Through Superior Firepower. Hezbollah is not going to disarm when you are bombing them. They are just gonna get mad and shoot back. You'd think after decades of this sort of thing somebody in Israel would get a clue. And I'm sorry but claiming you are doing this to free your neighbor from the terrorists is just lame. (see http://www.cnn.com for details on the UN story).
What concerns me is how the U.S. is going to react. We seem honor bound to take Israel's side in everything but in this case I think they are just plain wrong. Bombing Lebanon, shouting at Syria and generally shooting anything that moves is not going to bring anything remotely resembling peace and it is not going to get those two guys back.
Somebody has got to be the parent. Maybe that's the U.S. maybe not. But we should not just stand by and let Lebanon get bombed to pieces. And we certainly should not fan the flames by dragging Syria and Iran into the mix by blaming them for supporting Hezbollah (which, okay they tend to) as our lovely UN Rep has been doing today. What the hell does that have to do with the fighting in Lebanon right now? Very little. All it does is muddy the waters at the moment. That man should never have gotten that post but that is another rant for another day.
I tell ya one thing, that billboard of God's with the comment: "Don't Make Me Come Down There" makes a whole lot of sense right about now...
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