Israel Killing Christians

I'm still totally dumb struck by Israel's heinous attack on the sovereign nation of Lebanon so I'll probably just be quoting Juan Cole from Informed Comment. He can still talk about it and our idiot President.

Bush is on vacation, his favorite place to be during a major crisis. The August retreat is the only open admission he makes that Cheney and Rumsfeld are actually running the country, and he just doesn't need to be in his office. The only difference between his stonewalling of Lebanon and the way he let New Orleans drown is that he has put away the banjo this summer, at least in public view. He had someone tie a necktie on him and stopped manically clearing brush for long enough to come out with Condi and hold a press conference. He lied, saying that no one wants to see the violence continue. He wants to see the violence continue. Otherwise he would insist on a ceasefire. You see, if you don't have a ceasefire, the violence continues. If you oppose a ceasefire, you are saying you want the violence to continue. He does.

Then he tried to explain the war in Lebanon by saying this,

'They try to spread their jihadist message -- a message I call, it's totalitarian in nature -- Islamic radicalism, Islamic fascism, they try to spread it as well by taking the attack to those of us who love freedom. '

There are many problems with this passage.

The first is that the Israelis are not confining themselves to bombing Muslim radicals. They dropped 3000 bombs on Aitaroun in a single day. They are leveling the towns of the south altogether. They are hitting people who are not Muslim fascists.

In fact, they are hitting Christian areas such as Jounieh.

Bush, as usual, only seems to have cursory knowledge of what is going on. Now he is vacationing again, as he always does, when the world is in crisis. Clearly this cannot be just about Hezbollah. As with the non-threat in Iraq, the Israelis/Americans seem hell bent on destroying another government, not a "terrorist" group, who have little power to defend themselves. I'm just too disgusted and afraid of the long term ramifications to talk about it.