Hard to Pick Sides

You've really got to hand it to Nasrallah. I think his statement about Israel's reaction is genius.

"Had we known that the kidnapping of the soldiers would have led to this, we would definitely not have done it," he said in an interview on Lebanese TV.

Seriously. He does nothing but come out looking at least somewhat pitiable. He admits he was stirring up trouble (and we will always identify with a flawed human being over an infallable hardliner), but that Israel was so insane and bloodthirsty that it just wasn't worth it.

Now, I'm not saying Hezbollah (Iran, Syria) should have sitrred up trouble in the first place. It wasn't their business to. But I find it very hard to have any sympathy for those poor Israeli orchard owners who have had to do with deminished tourism for a month when a thousand times worse situations plague Palestinians by the hand of the IDF.

This may not be the place to draw sweeping conclusions about the Arab-Israeli conflict, but suffice it to say Israel needs a couple more ego deflaters. Maybe even have some of its land occupied for a decade or two. Then we'll see what the IDF has to say.

I am not advocating violence. Just Israeli ego reduction.

Get to It!

The Boston Globe hints at a foreign policy strategy that would make saftey so much easier:

"Overseas airports can be weak link in security chain"

Alright guys, you herad the Globe. Let's get to it. Time to take over every country in the world that has a potentially unsafe airport.

Go Joe!

I like it.

Secretary of Taste!

I love that our Secretary of State is Rice, because any headline about her going to/being in Asia is automatically hilarious.

She is also anagramically the Secretary of Taste. Rice!

A Post Worth a Year-Long Wait?

Not really.

Anyway, BBC News Hour said on the radio this morning that there are 30 times the anticipated number of immigrants in Britain from Eastern Europe following their accession in 2004. This has caused some to suggest that perhaps the open borders policy should be reconsidered.

What a rediculous suggestion to make. I am willing to consider arguments that the program didn't work as it was intended to and is causing economic problems, but to scrap this incredibly forward-looking policy all together? When you set up an idealistic goal for yourself, you don't abandon the goal at the first sign of trouble. You fix the trouble within the framework of the goal. Otherwise what is the point of setting up the goal? Why not just make the goal be the path you desired as opposed to the idological end-point?