Blogging for Freedom

Have we had enough blood-letting yet?  The television is awash with images of suffering people, evacuees, refugees, the dead, the injured, the burned out carcasses of buildings and homes and lives.  On both sides, much damage has been done, much misery inflicted. A woman in Haifa loses her leg in a Hezbollah rocket attack, children in Tyre are burned from Iraqi missile shells. A million Israelis have gone south for safety, a million Lebanese have gone north for the same reason (big difference, of course, is that the population of southern Lebanon won't have homes to go back to even when hostilities cease).

John Bolton, the US ambassador to the United Nations, asked something like "What would a premature cease-fire accomplish? We don't want temporary peace. We want permanent peace in the Middle East." Well, for one thing, a cease-fire might save some lives. For an administration so vocal about being "pro-life" they don't seem too concerned about all the babies and children being bombed and orphaned and made homeless.