Thursday, August 03, 2006

Qana.

Hello all,

I was on vacation this week, and when I returned to the news... Qana. If you are not outraged by this massacre of innocent human beings, perhaps you are not human yourself.

Charles Krauthammer, apparently, doesn't have a problem with it:

What other country sustains 1,500 indiscriminate rocket attacks into its cities -- every one designed to kill, maim and terrorize civilians -- and is then vilified by the world when it tries to destroy the enemy's infrastructure and strongholds with precision-guided munitions that sometimes have the unintended but unavoidable consequence of collateral civilian death and suffering?

To get a more detailed idea of what those "collateral" humans experience, read Robert Fisk:

"We were in the basement hiding when the bomb exploded at one o'clock in the morning,'' she said. "What in the name of God have we done to deserve this? So many of the dead are children, the old, women. Some of the children were still awake and playing. Why does the world do this to us?"

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