Of Moral Equivalence and Misplaced Outrage, These People Get It

Much of what I have been writing about recently has been focused on the War on Terror and just how far out of touch the left is on this battle. Their head in the sand attitudes pose a dangerous precedent. Ignoring the intentions of Islamic jihad threatens our way of life and makes the future much more dangerous for our children.

This morning I thought I’d take a temporary reprieve from highlighting those who are out of touch point out a couple of commentaries that display an understanding of exactly what we are up against.

Burden of civilian deaths sits with Hezbollah, not Israel - Chicago Sun Times Editorial

The Muslim gunman who stormed a Jewish charity in Seattle on Friday grabbed a 13-year-old girl to force his way into the building where he killed one woman and wounded five others. He may have learned that despicable tactic from Islamist terrorists. Hezbollah acts in precisely this way, commandeering Lebanese women, children and elderly as shields while it launches rockets aiming to kill Israeli women, children and elderly. The world’s condemnation of the airstrike on Qana that killed at least 56 Lebanese should be directed on the Hezbollah terrorists, not the defenders of Israel.

U.N.’s Dangerous Double Standard - Editorial, Investors Business Daily

Global War On Terror: The United Nations’ behavior in recent weeks after terrorists launched attacks on Israel reveals an awful truth: The U.N. is not neutral in this conflict. It seems to favor the terrorists.

Cry to Those Using Babies as Shields - Israel National News, Naomi Ragen

Mr. Ehud Olmert has my respect when he says: “They were warned to leave. It is the responsibility of Hizbullah for firing rockets amidst civilians.”

Terrorists and their supporters have lost the right to complain about civilian casualties, since all they have done this entire war is target civilians. Every single one of the more than 2,500 rockets launched into Israel is launched into populated towns filled with women and children. Just today, another suicide belt meant to kill civilians in Israel was detonated harmlessly by our forces in Nablus.

So, don’t cry to me about civilian casualties. Cry to those using your babies and wives and mothers; cry to those who store weapons in mosques, ambulances, hospitals and private homes. ….

Save your sympathy for the mothers and sisters and girlfriends of our young soldiers who would rather be sitting in study halls learning Torah, but have no choice but to risk their precious lives - full of hope, goodness and endless potential - to wipe out the cancerous terrorist cells that threaten their people and all mankind. Make your choice, and save your tears.

Passing judgment on Israel-Hezbollah. When wantonly attacked, one must disarm aggressor - Charles Krauthammer, Chicago Tribune

What other country sustains indiscriminate rocket attacks into its cities–every one designed to kill, maim and terrorize civilians–and is then vilified by the world when it tries to destroy the enemy’s infrastructure and strongholds with precision-guided munitions that sometimes have the unintended but unavoidable consequence of collateral civilian death and suffering?

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Hearing the world pass judgment on the Israel-Hezbollah war as it unfolds is to live in an Orwellian moral universe. With a few significant exceptions (the leadership of the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada and a very few others), the world–governments, the media, UN bureaucrats–has completely lost its moral bearings. The word that obviates all thinking and magically inverts victim into aggressor is “disproportionate,” as in the universally decried “disproportionate Israeli response.” When the United States was attacked at Pearl Harbor, it did not respond with a parallel “proportionate” attack on a Japanese naval base. It launched a four-year campaign that killed millions of Japanese, reduced Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki to a cinder, and turned the Japanese home islands to rubble and ruin. Disproportionate? No. When one is wantonly attacked by an aggressor, one has every right–legal and moral–to carry the fight until the aggressor is disarmed and so disabled that it cannot threaten one’s security again. That’s what it took with Japan.

The American people can not sit by and watch our elected officials kick the can down the road for the next generation, children of today, to deal with. This is not the world we want to pass on to them. It is time to replace politicians who go out of their way to prosecute a politically correct war on a menace whose own ideas of political correctness amounts to vile murder in the name of their god. This is my guide for all elections.

• Tel-Chai Nation: The armed agents of Islamic jihad
• Flopping Aces : Israel Resumes The Fight
• Captain Ed - Putting Qana In Perspective
• Michelle Malkin : When do terrorists warn civilians?
• Sierra Faith: More Double-Standards from the UN and Antique Media
• Barking Moonbat Early Warning System : Today’s topic for discussion is “asymmetric warfare”.
• BookWormRoom : Suffer the Children PT. II
• Jodi210 : Dearbornistan….The Enemy from Within
• The Independent Conservative: Christians Fleeing Lebanon Denounce Hezbollah