"Hezbollah Wins"

Andy McCarthy on National Review's The Corner writes, "Hezbollah wins this big just by being legitmized. Hezbollah is a terrorist organization, not a country. The resolution we are signing on to, however, addresses it as if it were a country. The resolution doesn't purport to direct any UN member nation to make Hezbollah cease firing — least of all Lebanon, the purported sovereign of this territory. Instead, it appeals to Hezbollah directly — in the same paragraph in which it addresses Israel, as if there were no difference in status between the two — and "calls on" it to stand down."

Last night C-Span had live coverage from the U.N., and it was nauseating to see diplomats from Argentina and Japan and Russia demanding that Israel withdraw from Lebanon. It's fine for them to talk -- it's not their countries that are under unrelenting attack. Does anyone really think that Hezbollah will suddenly become a peaceful people? Terrorists don't change their stripes. And in the light of this week's U.K. terrorist plot, to cave in and capitulate to these barbarians is incomprehensible to me.

Meanwhile, I heard today that Hezbollah rockets may have been responsible for shooting down an IDF helicopter, resulting in casualties. What will the U.N. say about that?