While we are waiting patiently for the rockets to start falling (or not) maybe someone can answer the question that has been bugging me for some time:
What the heck is this "pressure" that the "world community" is putting on George Bush? Just how does the "world community" exercise their supposed power to tell us anything. Take the French (please - as the old joke goes). What do we care what the French think? Ditto Kofi and the rest of the UN? I don't get it. There is nothing they can actually do to put any real pressure on us. They can't hate us any more than they already do so that's not it. It's the sticks and stones thing. I don't see how they can break any U.S. bones.
But I have a candidate answer: I think the pressure is that they will ignore us at U.N. and State Department cocktail parties and we will feel left out. That's the only thing I can think of.
The media, including FoxNews
If you ignore the media and go on about your daily life it won't intrude.
through the media.
just as they did with iraq, the US media will run these stories day after day after day, and slowly US public opinion will turn. ceasefire, civilian casualties, "condi's war", dead children, and on and on. already you see the effects - look at the comments from Bush and Condi today - instead of a rebuttal message about how hezbollah uses civilians as human shields, the message is "concern and sorrow" - which simply lends credence to the story.
when you see this pattern change - let me know. because until it does, the endgame here is almost inevitable.
Well...I did hear Dennis Deconcini a true LIB on Fox News today..and he was saying that if the USA didn't call for an immediate ceasefire (before the Israeli cessation plan)...then the US would "lose all of it's allies in Europe, like Italy, France, Germany"
SO..it is the DEMS also that are putting pressure on BUSH to do this perfectly...and you can count on a LOT of them to blame the deaths in Qana on President Bush tomorrow on Capitol Hill.