Kudos to Krauthammer

Here's an excerpt from another excellent editorial from Charles Krauthammer, who I admire very much. He's a fine writer, and he gets right to the point. The rules of war seem to have been changed only because the people at war are Israelis. As I've said before, Jews are the only people with whom it is perfectly acceptable to be politically incorrect. Beating Jews, killing Israelis, blowing up buses -- there's no outrage. But putting panties on the head of Iraqi prisoners? There's the outrage. The media is driving this war, and using it as if it is a reality TV show. I expect to see Lebanese evacuees crying on Oprah any day now.




http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/07/lost_moral_bearings.html

Let Israel Win the War
By Charles Krauthammer

WASHINGTON -- What other country, when attacked in an unprovoked aggression across a recognized international frontier, is then put on a countdown clock by the world, given a limited time window in which to fight back, regardless of whether it has restored its own security?

What other country sustains 1,500 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?

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, U.N. bureaucrats -- has completely lost its moral bearings.