[blackbart.223]

"Various world leaders, as well as the MSM in the United States, has declared that Israel is waging a "disproportionate war" against Hezbollah."

This disproportionate crap is starting to really piss me off.

If someone hits me in the nose without cause I will do everything in my power to shatter his jaw.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Hezbollah had no right to kidnap those Israeli soldiers in the first place and start this new round of fighting.

Why then is Israel held to fighting by "the rules,' as the international community somehow makes them out to be, but yet Hezbollah is not held to the same standards by the international community?

I don't hear anyone saying that Hezbollah is fighting a disproportionate war when it imbeds itself within civilan communities and fires rockets from those places, yet Israel is fighting a "disproportionate war" when it justly defends itself against an unprovoked aggression by Hezbollah.

BTW, have you ever heard the MSM ever say that any radical Muslim group, like Hamas or Hezbollah, attacks a "sovereign nation" when they attack Israel? They apply this label to the Bush administrartion concerning the Iraq war though.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Various world leaders, as well as the MSM in the United States wouldn't consider it a disproportionate war if they attended a typical Hezbollah rally in Beirut.

[onyx eyes]

and worse... Neil Cavuto of Fox News, is telling a spokesman, former Israel minister, (or some such title) -- that he should know that we - they - us and Israel - will have to sit down and talk with Hezbollah, sooner or later...

Yeah? Hezbollah killed 241 Americans in the barracks bombing of 1983. We do not have to talk to Hezbollah. At all.

[nopardons]

bttt

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Journalism is the "bad news" business.

All you have to do to understand journalism is to recognize that

• Journalism is a single entity. All journalists obey the "eleventh commandment" (Thou shalt no question the objectivity of a fellow journalist), so all journalists go along and get along and nobody says any journalist isn't objective. That is the MSM's definition of a "journalist."

• Journalism is talk, and it promotes itself at the expense of people who people who do.
  • You neeed water? Journalism will report bad news about the water company if it can.
  • You need Electricity? Journalism will report bad news about the availability of electricity and will even promote environmentalism to threaten the electricity supply.
  • You need security? Journalism will criticize the police for either "brutality" or incompetence, or both. Ditto for the military.
  • Ditto for food.
  • Ditto for automobiles.
  • Ditto for gasoline.
  • Ditto for health care.
• Journalism is superficial because of its short deadlines.

• Journalism is arrogant in claiming to be objective, and in claiming to speak for "world opinion." And in publishing polls claiming to speak for American opinion.

IOW, there is no reason why we should defer to the pretensions of journalism.