The Right State

Poor Kofi Annan.  His calls for a cease fire between Israel and Hezbollah have been ignored and now he is pouting about it.  Maybe if he showed more leadership skills and was less anti-Semitic people would listen more.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Sunday repeated his call for an immediate halt to violence between Israel and Hizbullah, condemning an IAF airstrike that killed at least 54 people and telling the UN Security Council he was “deeply disturbed” that his previous calls for a cease-fire had gone unheeded.

Where was the Secretary General when wave after wave of suicide/homicide bombers killed women and children in Israel?  Kofi Annan is being ignored because he has shown himself to be a self-serving leader of an organization which is no longer relevant in the world.  This is no longer a fight between Israel and Hezbollah, but a war between Israel and Iran and Syria by their proxy fighters in Lebanon.  This is part of a global war on terror.  That is why the US refuses to force Israel to end their part of the fight.  George Bush understands the costs of inaction on the part of Israel, a price we paid dearly on 9/11 for our many years of inaction.

The Secretary General goes on with his diatribe and wanders off on to the ridiculous. 

In unusually frank terms, Annan said the council risked undermining its own authority if it does not take action. He said that was made clear by the attacks on UN headquarters in Beirut earlier Sunday.

“People have noticed its failure to act firmly and quickly during this crisis,” Annan said.

Where have I heard these words before…….?  Maybe against Iraq before the US invaded.  The UN sat by and did nothing even though Saddam Hussein ignored sixteen UN resolutions in during a twelve year period.  President Bush uttered these same words that the UN would lose credibility if the member nations sat idly by and did nothing.  Finally it took the US and other nations making up the Coalition of the Willing to bring down this evil regime.

And now Kofi Annan has the nerve to say the UN will lose credibility if it fails to stop this conflict.  Note to the Sect. Gen.; the UN has already lost any credibility it may have had with its failure to act in Iraq, its constant scandals, and with some of its member nations having human rights violations even worse than Saddam Hussein’s.  The UN is a corrupt dinosaur whose time has come and gone.  Its past time to say good-bye.

Today there are renewed calls for a cease-fire after an IDF air strike killed 54 civilians particularly by the very organization tasked to control the border between Lebanon and Israel.  The Israeli Ambassador pretty much sums up this horrible tragedy and places it in context with Israel’s hope of security.

Israeli Ambassador Dan Gillerman called it a “horrible, sad and bloody Sunday.” While he apologized for the airstrike that killed the civilians in Qana, he said there was no comparison between Hizbullah, which intentionally targets Israeli civilians and uses Lebanese civilians as human shields, and Israel, which tries to avoid civilian casualties.

“Those people including women and children who were killed in this horrible tragic incident may have been killed by Israeli fire but they are the victims of the Hizbullah,” Gillerman said. “They are the victims of terror. If there were no Hizbullah this would never have happened.”

Gillerman said Hizbullah must be disarmed before any cease-fire occurs. Otherwise, he said, Hizbullah will rise again - “not just against us and not just against the people of Lebanon, but against the whole region and civilization as we know it.”

Yes, indeed.  How soon we have forgotten the horrors of terrorism.  Hezbollah does not act any different than does al-Queda.  Too many Americans forget that it was Hezbollah who targeted and killed 241 US Marines in Lebanon in 1983.  All the US was doing in Lebanon was maintaining a buffer zone.  For their actions, the terrorist group Hezbollah murdered 241 Americans.  Hezbollah, Iran, and Syria are the aggressors in this current conflict.  Considering all of their past actions, we should let Israel finish the job they started and let them destroy this terrorist group.  We at least owe that much to the families of the Marines killed in 1983.

Webloggin has a good post on how the left views the war and how they are blaming President Bush for it.

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