News- no, it's propoganda

[LSPoorEeyorick]

I don't actually care if they're photographing the dead children in sixteen different locations. Journalistically responsible? Not at all. But really, I don't care.

What matters to me is that there are dead children and war is s h i t t y and I'd rather a gigantic wall be put around the holy lands so that nobody has the right to them anymore.

I'm not happy with Hezbollah for kidnapping those Israelis, but the Israelis captured Lebanese first. This is war; soldiers and civilians are captured. And it doesn't matter who does it first if you're both doing it: responding in kind doesn't make you better, it makes you equally bad.

Look at us: we've got civilians in Gitmo and I'm pissed with us, too. And I'd be pissed if somebody purposefully captured Americans to force an exchange, and I'd be pissed if the US attacked civilians in the country of the captors in response.

Basically: I'm pissed. And this is why I don't post in the political threads as much as I used to. Because blood pressure increases with every stupid violent country or every stupid politician or every stupid "surprise! dead bodies"-- and that's just not how I want to spend my time.