He said, she said
George Bush says Israel defeated Hezbollah.
Hezbollah's leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah declared a "strategic, historic victory" against Israel.
Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert suggests the war demonstrated Israel "will respond with force to every terror act."
They all sound like a bunch of worthless knuckleheads playing an immature game of he said, she said. And one thing is certain from resolution 9,556,234, Israel didn't win a thing. Hezbollah still exists. Hezbollah still enjoys an arsenal of Katyusha rockets. And Hezbollah still controls much of Southern Lebanon.
And who says the militant terror group will abide by this latest resolution? The UN has yet to enforce any of their previous resolutions, including the 20 or so employed against Iraq. Resolution 9,556,234 will simply end up a joke like the rest. And for the record it's resolution 1701, but who is counting at this point. The UN goes through these resolutions faster than Sally Struthers goes through Twinkies.
President Bush seems to think this cease-fire will work because of the language it uses in reference to Lebanese and UN forces stabilizing Hezbollah territory. But you just have to look at how well the UN has handled virtually all peace-keeping missions. It goes something like this...fighting starts, UN comes in, fighting continues. And this isn't a simple battle between two diplomatic states. This current conflict is part of the greater war on Islamic fascism. Bush said just last week after the broken up terror plot in Britain, "we are still at war with Islamo-fascists." So if that's the case, why the pussy-footing around with a known terror organization?
Unfortunately we live times when the political life is more important than the innocent. I've long supported most of the policies of the Bush administration, but this is a time when I disagree. Standing with the UN and the rest of the doves only emboldens the terror groups who wish to eliminate the western world.
Karol Sheinin over at Michelle Malkin's blog applies this same logic to those who wish a hasty exit from Iraq.
If Bush still had some balls, he'd offer Israel complete support in their mission of disarming Hezbollah. He'd then drop bombs on the nuke facilities and launch sites of North Korea and follow it with a nice bomb in Tehran on Ahmadinejad's home welcoming him to the party. As they say throughout the conservative world, peace...through superior firepower!