help me understand: why does the nationality of the casualties play a role in one's position on the middle east crisis? a civilian is a civilian is a civilian. if you support a nation's right to defend itself at the expense of civilian lives - which i don't - that support should be independent of who dies in the process.
but i'm sure that those who are pressuring the pm are just as concerned about the other foreign nationals whose lives are at risk, not to mention the innocent lebanese and israelis caught in the cross-fire.
p.s. i watched an old marx brothers movie called "duck soup" the other day . . . it had been years since i last saw it. anyway, the "we're going to war" scene felt morbidly inappropriate. particularly the line about how "all God's children got guns."
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You and I have such a different political positions, it is funny how we can be such a good friends.
I have this current obsession with M*A*S*H, I always liked it for the humor, but since the war in the middle east, I can see so many parellels to the Korean war, and the sarcasum they use to deal with the injustice is very close to home. War is war is war...it all sucks!
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