The Land of Milk and Honey
One question: Where is the outrage from the "Arab street"? Cedarlink. Where the United States Army or the Israeli Self-Defense Forces to launch a similar, completely justified attack against an equivalent terrorist stronghold, the "moderate Arab regimes" in the region would be screaming bloody murder through their mouthpiece, the Arab League. "Crusaders! Zionists! Baby Killers!," the Arab League would cry. Let me be clear about this: I wholeheartedly support what the Lebanese government is trying to do; if Lebanon is to endure as a viable, sovereign state private armies will have to be disarmed, and while Hezbollah is a greater long-term threat than Fatah al-Islam, this is as good a place as any to start this dangerous, necessary work. And I am glad the dictators in the region (and, yes, that includes Jordan's sanctimonious King Abdullah II) are holding their tongues. I just hope this hypocrisy opens more people's eyes to the cynical, sinister nature of the Arab street's harsh condemnation of similar American and Israeli actions.