Monday, January 12, 2009

War is Hell...Among other things

I can't help but laugh when I turn on the television and see American newscasters crying like a bunch of newborn babies about the civilians that are getting hurt and dying as Israel kicks the crap out of Hamas...again. Let me try and be as concise as I can here;

War is an ugly thing. Countries can make up all the rules about combat that they want but when it comes right down to it, War has no rules. There is no such thing as a "surgical" strike. Two sides go at each other until either one side is completely wiped out or surrenders. They use cities and towns as their battlefields. You know, where civilians live. So, logically, in the due process of War, yes, civilians will get hurt and/or killed.

Don't even sit there and think about telling me that in all the wars that the United States has participated in that we've never killed civilians. Hell, in Nagasaki alone we fried about 75,000 civvies, give or take a few. So, Israel has a way to go to match us.

I support Israel's right to exist. I support what they're doing. How many times does Israel have to listen to the United Nations and agree to a ceasefire, only to have Hamas fire rockets into Israel again. Purposely targeting civilians, I might add. Somehow, that doesn't make the news, though. Waaahhhhh! Give those babies a bottle already!

As for the UN, don't even get me started. That is the most useless body in the world. They're like the appendix of Countries, everyone knows it's there, but no one knows what it does! And guess what, you can live without an appendix!