War Is Messy
It turns out War Is Hell, messy, no fun ( Rumsfeld) and dead UN monitors and women and children have been collateralized, dirivetized, financialized, etc...One wonders if all those Christians in all their big Churches and all the Jews in their Temples, Muslims in their Mosques are praying for the "innocents" this morning and just where they draw their lines. Where does prayer leave off and politics begin? Does this mean Condi's Peace Prize is just a prayer? She so wanted that baby, next to all her diplomas and medals and Certificates of Suck- sess.
"American officials say that while the Arab leaders need to take a harder line publicly for domestic political reasons, what matters more is what they tell the United States in private, which the Americans still see as a wink and a nod." Like this, you know, she SAID she didn't want to but I could TELL that she really did, her NO really meant YES and her screams showed she really enjoyed it. Or are the American Officials telling us this with their own wink and a nod? Truth and Illusion.
"100 Katyusha rockets were fired into Israel... two Israeli citizens were killed and 132 taken to hospital.." How do 100 rockets only kill 2 people? Shitty aim? No explosives? What?
In the Blame America First category we have Prof.M'Shahid Alam on the subject of context: "We too must constantly revisit the history of Western depredations over the past four centuries to connect the worlds present miseries to this infamous history."
Connect? History? What the hell...?
I see where Hugo Chavez is now showing the Charlie Chaplin classic Modern Times all around Venezuela. This guy is way sharper than anyone thought. Beautiful Bolivarians. The Missoula Statue Erection is being planned.
Weather is freakin weird here. Brings to mind the John Prine line about the Mexican desert: "The moon is going down and the sun is holding it's breath".Hot, clear , sunny ,windy for weeks on end.Im going to go fish Hebgen Resevoir
posted by troutsky @ 7:46 AM
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"100 Katyusha rockets were fired into Israel... two Israeli citizens were killed and 132 taken to hospital.." How do 100 rockets only kill 2 people? Shitty aim? No explosives? What?
My understanding is that Katyushas aren't particuarly aimable, nor accurate. Just one more respect in which Israel's response is way out of proportion.
The U.S. position of refusing to call for a ceaesefire has been making me thing of the seige of Warsaw at the end of WWII. The Soviet Army stopped its advance on the far side of the Vistula River, and waited while the Germans massacred the Polish Home Army. Only when the potential resistance was decimated did the Soviets cross into and occupy the city. It was a great crime, and a terrible blot on the generally heroic record of the Soviets during WWII.
Anyway, it seems pretty clear that the U.S. is similarly using Israel to do its dirty work -- both decimating Hezbollah and sending a message to Iran and Syria. It is shameful.
Do pardon my sloppy typing above!
I have been thinking about that whole rockets fired to deaths ratio as well. Throwing up hail marys I guess.
It was over 100 degrees in Fargo today. I can't stand it. i thought this was the north for christ sake
So they designed rockets that are unaimable? Must be the same guy who designed my bicycle pump and my cd player.What good are rockets that fly wildly?
Condi said it is"urgent" that we get a comprehensive, lasting ceasefire.Obviously not urgent like it is urgent we put out the grease fire in the kitchen urgent.
So they designed rockets that are unaimable?
I wanted to make some kind of joke here about "it ain't rocket science". But I'm stumped!
First, Modern Times is a great movie.
Second, even aimable rockets aren't that effective. Sure, they take out buildings and create chaos, and also make people homeless--how many hundreds of thousands of refugees has Israel created?--but they do not win wars.
Read up on the German bombing of Britain, or the U.S.'s decimation of an aspirin factory in--was it Syria?
This whole thing is terrible. My prayers go for the whole world.
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