Saturday, July 29
the war, or should i say, the fighting
as someone who writes the news, it continually surprises me how quickly i get bored with events which involve armed fighting. the hezbollah-israel "war" is no different. pretty much into the 3rd day of active bombing, i was over the story. not to be callous, but when you have producers freaking out over the latest bombing, when there's only more to come, it can get old, fast. the situation continues to boil, all three sides (lebanon) seem determined not to allow any sort of a cease-fire or compromise agreement. this worries me. civilians on both sides are dying, and as one u.n. official put it - "There is something fundamentally wrong with a war where there are more dead children than armed men." this sentiment exactly captures my frustration with the events/story. hezbollah is a terrorist organization, they will attack innocents who they see as their enemy to get their work done. israel wants to target hezbollah, but is also killing hundreds of uninvolved lebanese. lebanon doesn't seem to know whether it wants to try to maintain this farce that it doesn't support hezbollah activities. it's everyone being extremely stupid, but in the end, it's creating a human crisis. i'm not sure where i'm going with this post, it just bothers me that the whole thing is happening, with a slim chance of an end in sight...
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