[MarkL]

I really need to invest in Alcoa, cause Buchanon is going to need to be fitted for a HUGH tinfoil hat!

Mark

[WOSG]

"If Israel is not in violation of the principle of proportionality"

Um, I'm not aware of that 'principle'.
Was it followed in WWI, when an assassination led to a war of millions killed?
Or WWII, where after Pearl harbor (3,000 killed) we killed millions of Japanese?
or (you name the war, they are all like that)?

War is hell. Which is why ...

"This was not a terrorist act, Bibi explained, because Irgun telephoned a 15-minute warning to the hotel before the bombs went off. Right. And those children in that basement in Qana should not have ignored the Israeli leaflets warning them to clear out of southern Lebanon."

... this sarcasm here is so INAPT.
Why yes, Pat, they *should* have cleared out of southern lebanon!!!

[Prost1]

Pat does not understand the Victory is always disproportionate. Or he chooses to ignore that fact. Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Nanking, Berlin, Kosovo...

[goldstategop]

Pat Buchanan does not seem to grasp that Qana was a setup orchestrated by Hezbollah to blame Israel for something she didn't do. The evidence has revealed that Israel's Air Force did NOT hit the building where civilians were present. Of course its a tragedy. In war, civilians get killed. Buchanan seems to overlook the fact none of this would have happened had Hezbollah not launched a war of aggression against Israel. And it is a war they're losing and which as a matter of fact the entire Arab world is losing by following the sirens of fanaticism to disaster. Even Tom Friedman, the foreign policy guru of the Left, has said as much. Israel will be in great shape when this particular battle finally ends. The Arabs will on the other hand, be set back decades further behind Israel in civilizational development, standards of living, and technological, scientific and cultural achievements. The Jewish State has whipped their butts and instead of taking an example from Israel, they spend all their time figuring out how to destroy that little country. I don't know who to feel sorrier for, Buchanan who swallows the Hezbollah propaganda, or the Arabs and Muslims on jihadi crack who continue to delude themselves with the insane notion that they're winning even as they're being bested by Israel. Again, a culture of life is infinitely superior to a culture of death.

(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)

[WOSG]

Moral culpability? Try this ...

http://judeoscope.ca/article.php3?id_article=0429

I lived until 2002 in a small southern village near Mardshajun that is inhabited by a majority of Shias like me. After Israel left Lebanon, it did not take long for Hezbollah to have the say in our town and all other towns. Received as successful resistance fighters, they appeared armed to the teeth and dug rocket depots in bunkers in our town as well. The social work of the Party of God consisted in building a school and a residence over these bunkers! A local sheikh explained to me laughing that the Jews would lose in any event because the rockets would either be fired at them or if they attacked the rocket depots, they would be condemned by world opinion on account of the dead civilians. These people do not care about the Lebanese population, they use them as shields, and, once dead, as propaganda. As long as they continue existing there, there will be no tranquility and peace.

Dr. Mounir Herzallah
Berlin-Wedding

[Scotswife]

Is Pat a radtrad too? In the fashion of Hutton Gibson?

[Dustbunny]

What a crack pot!!

[Trailerpark Badass]

Do you sit at home, thinking, "Those fools...!"

Or what?

Does argeeing with the great Buchanan give you some succor? Some feeling that you can see what others can't, or won't?

[Anti-Bubba182]

Was Qana Staged? Cont'd (Memogate II?)

[sauropod]

If Israel is not in violation of the principle of proportionality, by which Christians are to judge the conduct of a just war, what can that term mean? There are 600 civilian dead in Lebanon, 19 in Israel, a ratio of 30-1 – though Hezbollah is firing unguided rockets, while Israel is using precision-guided munitions

And Israel is just supposed to ignore the daily rocket attacks against them perpetrated by the Hezzies for how many years now?

Sorry, I find this more than a little disingenuous. And I respect Buchanan generally (except his economics).

[stands2reason]

So, what is your opinion of Cindy Sheehan?

[familyop]

"If Israel is not in violation of the principle of proportionality, by which Christians are to judge the conduct of a just war..."

Pat, like his pagan spiritmates in western Europe, is fantasizing about exterminating all of the Jews by giving up as many of their terrorist friends. Even the Arab/Persian nationalists would be willing to lose as many of their own in order to do so.

[.cnI redruM]

Patrick J. Buchanan is Mel Gibson without the acting talent!

This is utter garbage!

Was Qana Staged? Cont'd [Jonah Goldberg]

A giant banner denouncing Rice and the "Qana massacre" might have been made a bit too quickly.
I don't want to get too far out ahead on this, but I know we've got a zillion printer-type folks among our readers. Do you guys think such a banner could be made in 2-4 hours (particularly in a supposedly war-ravaged area)?

Update: From a reader:

"Do you guys think such a banner could be made in 2-4 hours (particularly in a supposedly war-ravaged area)?"

Heck no. A designer could throw it together in probably 15 minutes or so, but the longest part would be the printing. Notice how deep the reds and blacks are - this means they didn't just bust it out. I wouldn't be surprised if that job itself (requiring special equipment, as it looks to be printed on canvas or nylon, not merely paper) took 6 hours simply to print.

Also, that puppy would be expensive.

Update II: From a reader:

Nope. Not possible in 2 hours to design, typeset, print, assemble and transport to the site. 24 hours if you're really good to do all the above. I say that as an career commercial artist of 18 years now.

Update III: From another reader:

called a close friend who has a very large printing company in NY with the question. he called out to one of his technicians as to how long a color 30 foot banner would take to produce. the response was that it would have to be done by a special machine and that machine would take "5 to 6 hours." by the way, their rather enormous, state of the art (less than 6 months old) facility doesn't even have the equipment necessary to do it. so make a guess as to what's available in a war-ravaged area...

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[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

To summarize this column:

"Somebody get those kikes disarmed and lined up for the showers!"

[rang1995]

Screw Buchanan already! he is what he is--a piece of crap

[roses of sharon]

More OBL propaganda, soon you guys will be strapping on bombs to martyr yourselves.

Seek help!

[Democratshavenobrains]

Someone should tell Pat all them Lebanese people are sneaky Mexicans in disguise!

[Thorin]

Thanks for posting this outstanding column.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Lebanese report: Hezbollah planted disabled children in basement to die

Was Qana Staged? Cont'd (Memogate II?)

Hezbollywood? Evidence mounts that Qana collapse and deaths were staged