Remember when we had the grapes to stand up like this?
"If the soldiers are not returned we will turn Lebanon's clock back 20 years," Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Dan Halutz to Israeli Channel 10.
KLTV News: Israeli Troops Enter Lebanon Amid Kidnap Reports
There was a time the United States would have done the same thing to ensure the return a US Citizen being wrongly held by some tin platted dictator with delusions of importance. Sadly, those days died with the Carter Administration.
President Bush backed Israel but then almost reversed himself in the same breath... "Israel has the right to defend herself," Bush told a news conference after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "Secondly, whatever Israel does should not weaken the...government in Lebanon."
Reuters: Bush says Israel has right to defend itself
Mr. President, that's a grand goal. But I don't think we can have it both ways.
Let's all hope this thing wraps up in a hurry and no one pushes Israel far enough to nuke anyone.
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
- John F. Kennedy
KLTV News: Israeli Troops Enter Lebanon Amid Kidnap Reports
There was a time the United States would have done the same thing to ensure the return a US Citizen being wrongly held by some tin platted dictator with delusions of importance. Sadly, those days died with the Carter Administration.
President Bush backed Israel but then almost reversed himself in the same breath... "Israel has the right to defend herself," Bush told a news conference after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "Secondly, whatever Israel does should not weaken the...government in Lebanon."
Reuters: Bush says Israel has right to defend itself
Mr. President, that's a grand goal. But I don't think we can have it both ways.
Let's all hope this thing wraps up in a hurry and no one pushes Israel far enough to nuke anyone.
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
- John F. Kennedy