It seems I only update these days...
When the middle east is blowing up.
Really. We've been calling it the "crisis in the middle east" for the past five thousand years. Perhaps it's time we stopped thinking of it as a Middle East crisis and just accepted an endless series of mindless retribution attacks as Middle East culture, no matter how fucked up it seems?
Honestly, what did you think was going to happen if you start firing rockets at Israeli cities and send commandos across the border into a contry's sovereign territory to abduct their fucking soldiers? Israel's response might seem a bit heavy-handed, but given what they've had to put up with from Lebanon over the past entire history of their country I can't say that I sympathize with Hezbollah. We have Arabs electing terrorist organizations whose main platform is the complete eradication of Israel despite the fact that Israel has handed them their ass in every major regional conflict since 1947, and still expect sympathy from the outside world when those terrorist organizations take it too far?
Sucks for the Lebanese, but they could just play nice, give back the soldiers, and it would all be over. If you want to be treated like a big kid then you have to play by the big kid rules.
Really. We've been calling it the "crisis in the middle east" for the past five thousand years. Perhaps it's time we stopped thinking of it as a Middle East crisis and just accepted an endless series of mindless retribution attacks as Middle East culture, no matter how fucked up it seems?
Honestly, what did you think was going to happen if you start firing rockets at Israeli cities and send commandos across the border into a contry's sovereign territory to abduct their fucking soldiers? Israel's response might seem a bit heavy-handed, but given what they've had to put up with from Lebanon over the past entire history of their country I can't say that I sympathize with Hezbollah. We have Arabs electing terrorist organizations whose main platform is the complete eradication of Israel despite the fact that Israel has handed them their ass in every major regional conflict since 1947, and still expect sympathy from the outside world when those terrorist organizations take it too far?
Sucks for the Lebanese, but they could just play nice, give back the soldiers, and it would all be over. If you want to be treated like a big kid then you have to play by the big kid rules.