SamSaid!

LIEBERMAN

     Senator Joe Lieberman is a famous American. For a multi-term Senator, a VP nominee and a frequent guest on TV shows, it is difficult NOT to be well known. But the chances are that by November, Lieberman could become a household word meaning “stab in the back”.  Joe Lieberman committed an unpardonable sin for a Democrat  –  he openly supported  George Bush, The Republican President of the United States. The issue was the Iraqi War. So the Dems decided to kill off Lieberman by supporting a rival in the Democratic primary election in Connecticut. Lieberman lost, but will now run as an Independent.

     Lieberman was beaten (by a very narrow margin) by a wealthy left winger whose military strategy starts and ends with “retreat”. The nicer term is “cut and run”. But the anti-Bush, anti-war Democrats  — Kennedy, Reid, Boxer, Kerry, et. al., got out their stillettos and harpooned Lieberman because of his principled position on the War.  “Stab in the back” is an accurate and proper term, and it may be that in years to come when a back-stabbing incident occures, it may be described as a “Lieberman”.

     Wonder what the left wing Democrats will do when Lieberman wins in November? My guess is that he will win.

TARGETING

     The Middle East sure is a mess. The Israelis are fighting for the country's very existence, and the Hezbollah are on a crash course to destroy all of them. It is interesting that many of the UN “countries” label Israel's response to the Hezbollah incursion and capture of Israel soldiers as “disproportionate”. Really? Interesting term when is comes to flat out war. Why should world opinion be so strongly critical of the Israelis? Maybe Al Jazzeera thinks the Jews should apologize for being tough on Hezbollah.

     As the 36 day War heated up, Israel depended heavily on air strikes, while the Hezbollah relied on rockets fired at cities. The difference is that all of the Israeli airstrikes were targeted at specific targets  –  military targets. On the other hand, all of the Hezbollah rockets were indiscriminately fired at Israeli cities. Can you imagine 20-40-100 rockets fired at no specific targets  –  just hoping to kill a lot of innocent people? The Israelis want to win the war and disable Hezbollah while Hezbollah is content just to kill a lot of people who have no role in the military contest.  That tells you a lot about the aims and tactics of Hezbollah  –  no other purpose than to kill whoever is unfortunate enough to be in the area where an rocket falls.

     Wars are messy indeed and people get killed. All of them are not a part of the military forces. But to fire hundreds of rockets  — aimed at nothing in particular  —  hoping that they will kill “someone” is a sub human version of “war”. Or at a minimum, a version of war conducted by sub human people.

     Disproportionate??  Hardly!