Sunday, August 13, 2006

A Foreign Policy Rorschach Test

I was thinking the other day of the current fighting going on in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah and it occurred to me that this "conflict" is a sort of microcosm of Civilization's conflict with Islamofascism. Accordingly, I believe that an informed person's view of the situation might serve as a sort of foreign policy Rorschach test.

Bill Bennett has has written an op/ed along those lines. Key quote:
Let Kofi Annan condemn Israel. Let ex-State Department officials wring their hands. Let the Security Council issue its condemnations if it must. But at the end of the diplomatic doublespeak and the denunciations of editorial writers here and abroad, let the countries on the frontlines, fighting for their existence, act like any normal country would under attack and save themselves. In so doing, they will save those who also strive to be normal, democratic, and free.

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