onsdag, august 16, 2006

ser ud til..

..at der nu igen er rimelig fredeligt i mellemøsten. Alle tabte naturligvis, især de 1000vis der døde, blev sårede, mistede forældre/børn/famile. Derudover er der naturligvis de materielle skader.
Men både Israel og Hizbollah hævder at de har vundet. Israel fordi de tilsyneladende har fået mindsket antallet af Hizbollah terrorister, og Hizbollah fordi de har vist at Israels hær ikke er uovervindelig.
Imens de døde begraves og de lokale sørger, har Scott Adams(tegner af Dilbert) et alternativt forslag til hvorledes man kunne få fred i mellemøsten. Og man må jo nok indse at alternative midler skal der til. Udover det har han nogle skarpe kommentarer der rammer helt plet:
"According to the New York Times, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, appeared on television to declare that Hezbollah had won “…a strategic and historic victory.”

Meanwhile, Israel is claiming they achieved their goal of degrading Hezbollah and putting the U.N. peacekeepers and Lebanese army in control of Southern Lebanon.

You have to love a war where both sides win. The only part I didn’t understand was why they stopped fighting. It seemed to me that the longer they fought, the more winning both sides would enjoy. I was puzzled until I read in the same article that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said Israel would “do better” the next time around. You have to admire their spunky attitude. I guess it’s like the Olympics, where everyone is a winner just for participating, but you still only do it every four years. Otherwise it would be too much of a good thing."



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