I'm revolted (and deeply saddened) by the inhumaity of this...echoing
Condoleeza Rice's "birth pangs of a New Middle East." How dare she (and
you) make so little of the lives of the 'others.'
U.
Eric Yost wrote:
I'm not revolted by the destruction of Hezbollah's facilities, infrastructure, and staff. Plus if Hez houses civilians in military target areas, I am revolted by them, rather than by Israeli missile strikes aimed at non-civilian targets.
My visceral response is to seek peace for generations first, while stopping the shooting as soon as advantageous.
If Hez is an infection ravaging a potentially healthy body, i.e., Lebanon, then stopping shooting now would be equivalent to stopping antibiotics to administer painkillers because of a revulsion to the patient's groaning. The patient will stop groaning, sure, but the infection will spread and become intractable. Plus the patient will develop a resistance to the painkillers, which will be needed later as the infection spreads.
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