Everybody wants a cease-fire except you-know-who
U.S. Opposed to Cease-Fire With Hezbollah. I’d like to blog about this, but I’m afraid my blood pressure will cause my arteries to actually explode. The blood vessels will just burst and great fountains of blood will shoot out through my skin and spatter all over the wall, and then I’ll bleed to death. That’s what will happen. So I’m just going to limit myself to commenting on this remarkable statement by our ambassador to the U.N., Captain Kangaroo, on why a cease-fire isn’t feasible:
“I think it’s a very fundamental question how a terrorist group agrees to a cease-fire,” he said, referring to Hezbollah. “How do you hold a terrorist group accountable? Who runs the terrorist group? Who makes the commitments that the terrorist group will abide by a cease-fire? What does a terrorist group think a cease-fire is?”
These are all profound and worthy questions, and I for one am certainly glad the Captain is thinking about them. But if you remember, just a few days ago Hezbollah was described as part of the government of Lebanon and their attack on the Israeli soldiers an “act of war” by the state of Lebanon — thereby entitling Israel to open up the most gigantic can of whoop-ass it could find and bomb the ever-loving shit out of the entire fucking country. So it’s kinda funny that now, according to Captain Kangaroo, a cease-fire is impossible because Hezbollah is just a rogue terrorist group that isn’t accountable to anyone…including the state of Lebanon.
Well, see, just writing that made my veins start throbbing ominously, so I’d better quit now.
3 Responses to “Everybody wants a cease-fire except you-know-who”
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Timothy Shortell says:
It is hard not to believe that the fundamentalist influence on this administration is pushing hard for a full-blown war. I know that some of the players, such as the Captain here, are just crazy-ass neo-cons who enjoy mass destruction for its own sake, but there does seem to be a biblical vibe going on, and with it, a total disregard for the reality of the suffering.
The Daily Show tonight had a good riff on the hypocrisy of W’s veto of stem cell research in the name of life and the casual disregard for the casualties of war.
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Victoria says:
I just read your post out loud to my husband, who, like me, agreed with your sentiments wholeheartedly, except insofar as the comparison of our U.N. “Ambassador” to Captain Kangaroo was a severe affront to Captain Kangaroo.
I, however, found the comparison to be redemptively hilarious, so thank you.
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Infidel says:
And Captain Kangaroo does not ask what a Cease Fire means to Israel when it is between Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas, while Gaza reels in blood?
