(Free ad courtesy of a webmaster exercising his 1st Amendment rights)

It's not all that complicated, folks.
John McCain wants to change DC, Barack Obama wants to change America.
One candidate believes in and cares about this country, one doesn't.
It's your vote. Make it count.


Tuesday, 01 August 2006
"The soft nihilism of low expectations"
Contributed by Bill Faith

Edward Morrissey: This is the soft nihilism of low expectations

WASHINGTON - Israeli aircraft bombed a Hezbollah launching site in Qana this weekend as part of its prosecution of the war along its northern border.

Unfortunately, the strike killed dozens of civilians in the residential area hit by the Israeli Air Force, including more than 30 children. Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered immediate apologies and began an investigation into the attack to determine if the target selection was appropriate.

Predictably, world leaders expressed outrage and called for Israel to stop its attacks on Hezbollah. The U.N. Security Council held a rare Sunday session in response to the tragic Qana bombing. Governments from Britain to Bahrain scolded the Israelis for their disproportionate response to the war Hezbollah provoked, and the Lebanese government in Beirut decried the “massacre” at Qana.

[...]

Those who argue that Israel has occasionally violated the Geneva Conventions in its attacks casually ignore the blatant violations of Hezbollah, whose combatants wear no uniform, deliberately hide in civilian populations and fire weapons from residential areas. Hezbollah conducts none of its operations within the rules of war — and yet world leaders and the media never mention it.

Why? Because no one expects terrorists to follow the rules. This is the soft nihilism of low expectations.

[Read the whole thing.

***

Ed has further comments here.

Contributed by Bill Faith on August 1, 2006 at 09:26 AM in Bill Faith, Islamism Delenda Est | Permalink

Comments


Post a comment

Comments accept simple HTML for formatting and linking.

Comments are moderated and may not appear on the site immediately. Comments in violation of our comment policy will never appear on the site.






TrackBacks

TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83451e4ed69e200e5506f39bb8833

Trackbacks are moderated and do not appear immediately. Trackbacks from posts that do not link to this post will be deleted and will never be visible here.

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference "The soft nihilism of low expectations":