While the world holds Israel to this standard, things become curiously silent when it’s time to hold Hezbollah responsible for its conduct of war. Hardly a word has escaped from the U.N. or Europe on the 2,500 missiles that have rained down upon Israeli civilians, deliberately targeted by Hezbollah. Those attacks have displaced more than 300,000 civilians, a fact the global community and the mainstream media ignore.
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.
This is no way to fight a war. When grossly exaggerated, intentionally misleading, & manufactured allegations of "atrocities" dominate headlines & are a serious part of the debate within the MSM, UN, many Western Democracies & the DNC, world opinion is then grossly distorted. When these same bodies utterly fail to educate the world about the terrorists dedication to inflicting horrific atrocities on civilian populations of both their enemies & the people unfortunate enough to live in the areas where the terrorists (and rouge dictators) control, that too distorts global perception of real world events. This sets the stage for tying the hands of our military unnecessarily & emboldens our enemies.
Our military bends over backwards to avoid civilian casualties, but that's not how it is portrayed to the public. When bogus & hyper exaggerated allegations of "atrocities" become common knowledge it places undue pressure on political leaders to show even more restraint when terrorists strike. It forces political leaders to make the military alter their tactics & Rules of Engagement (ROE) even further to protect civilians, which in turn places our troops at greater risk. And it makes it easier for the terrorists to operate with impunity as they dress as civilians, use them as shields, store their arms, bunkers & safe houses among them.
Captain Ed, on his blog nails it;
Quite frankly, this double standard will eventually destroy Western civilization by rendering us incapable of defeating our enemies. Those nations wishing to destroy us have watched carefully over the last several years while our own people obsess -- and I do not think that too strong a term -- over anomalies like Abu Ghraib and Qana, and they note the lack of outrage over the fact that their proxies have deliberately launched 2,500 missiles at Israeli civilians. No leaders or media make a peep about the butchery of our enemies as displayed in the torture and beheading of our troops, except to somehow make it our fault for fighting terrorism in the first place.
What lessons do you think Iran, Syria, and the rest of the terrorists draw from these observations?
Be careful what you with for leftists. In your zeal to bring down President Bush you've become willing to blindly accept the worst about this Administration & our military. And the pablum from liberal elites about Palestinians & Muslims as victims & that all war is evil may one day come back to haunt you in a big way. But then it may be too late to do anything about it.
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