Death in Lebanon
Of all the photos I've seen in recent days, this one stands out. These coffins contain the bodies of 72 victims of the conflict, all laid to rest in a mass grave in Tyre, Lebanon.
posted by Michael J.W. Stickings at
8:05 AM
5 Comments:
Speaking as a human being, this whole episode has truly been a tragedy. Here's hoping (again and always) for a peaceful resolution.
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Anonymous, at 1:53 AM
war will always underly any resolution made. It is there in the darkness always waiting to be let out. Resolutions can be made, but they will always be broken.
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Anonymous, at 9:42 AM
Well said, Clint. As this conflict has dragged on, I've begun to look past the realism that some accused me of promoting at the beginning. This is not to say that there is an easy way out of this mess, nor that pacifism is the solution, but how can one not feel for the innocent civilians caught up in the fighting on both sides? I, too, hope for some sort of peaceful resolution, an international effort (with the U.S. taking a lead) to stop the violence and to work out some sort of long-term solution. The problem is, as I've said before, there are groups (and states) that simply refuse to acknowledge Israel's right to exist. Until the two-state solution is accepted by all parties, I wonder if a peaceful resolution is possible (beyond a temporary cease-fire).
Regardless, such concerns aside, this is indeed a tragedy that I hope will end soon.
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Michael J.W. Stickings, at 10:12 AM
Well said. Too many commentators are not recognizing, or refusing to recognize that, militias like Hizbullah have no interest in two states or regaining what Jordan lost in the 1967 war or anything short of the complete annihilation of Israel. Their worst fear is peace and to avoid peace they force their neighbors to be martyrs.
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Capt. Fogg, at 11:53 AM
The Israeli Defense Force is the fifth most powerful war machine in the world. Despite comprising only .001 per cent of the world’s population, Israel receives one third of all American foreign aid. They receive the most American military aid of any country on earth, and are the largest buyer of American made weapons. Those are American made M109 155mm self-propelled howitzers firing M110A1 WP white phosphorous incendiary shells and M483A1 DPICM cluster munitions into Lebanese villages, and those are American made F-16 fighter-bombers dropping American made GBU-28 5,000 lb laser-guided bombs upon residential suburbs of Beirut. Israel’s indiscriminate attack on Lebanon unequivocally constitutes a crime against humanity pursuant to the UN Charter, Articles 33, 48, and 147 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and Article 7 of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Statutes of 1998, differing from Lidice and Guernica only in scope. They are perpetrating this atrocity with American made weapons paid for with American taxpayers dollars under the diplomatic cover of the American Secretary of State and American Ambassador to the UN and with the inane cheerleading of the American President and American Congress. If indeed these are the elected leaders of a free democracy simply expressing the will of the people, by extension that makes every American citizen fully complicit as a war criminal.
Words simply cannot express the depth of my grief for the people of Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine, or the depth of my shame and revulsion for the United States.
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Rowan, at 5:49 PM
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