Condi in Wonderland

I see that Condi has taken time off shopping long enough to pay a surprise visit to Beirut. That must make everyone feel better. All those homeless Lebanese undoubtedly, and at last, can understand why their homes needed to blasted off the planet, and why their children should have no safety to grow up in. It’s all part of the grand plan to rid the world of evil. Devestation wrought by the good guys is fine. Just wait, the Americans will promise to send some aid to help rebuild those villages. Condi will explain why being homeless is all in a good cause. She’ll tell the Beirutis that they didn’t need those houses becasue if they had been good people all along none of this would have been necessary. But they weren’t good people and so … POOF!! Israel has the right to inflict mayhem. No one else does. Just the Israelis. It’s all in self defense.

And what should the Beirutis do to defend themselves? Attack Hezbollah. Except Hezbollah wasn’t raining bombs down on them. So attacking Hezbollah wouldn’t have been self-defense. It would have been defending Israel. Hmmmm …. you can get a headache from trying to follow Condi’s logic. So let’s just clarify for everyone: anything Israel does is OK; everything else is wrong. That seems to sum up US policy.

And while she’s there do you think she’ll actually visit South Beirut? Don’t bank on it because that’ll mean confronting the humanitarian disaster Israel is inflicting.

Nothing so far tells me that peace is anywhere close. Condi certainly won’t contribute.