Kofi in la-la land: Israel deliberately targeted UN Observers, he said

2006-07-26
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In the midst of the war raging between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, a UN Observer post was hit by an Israeli air strike Tuesday, killing several UN “peacekeepers.”  Reportedly eating dinner when he got the news, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan must have done the mother of all spit-takes.

And then, being the judicious diplomat that he is, he immediately rushed out and accused Israel of an “apparently deliberate targeting” of the UN observers.  Without the benefit of an investigation and in the face of all common sense, Annan apparently sees it as an open-and-shut case.  Next stop, The Hague.

Kofi, can you provide any remotely conceivable reason why Israel would deliberately target UN observers?  Granted, they’re as useless as one-armed jugglers, but deliberately kill them?  Why?

There are two things going on here: the fog of war and the fog of Kofi’s thinking.

In the fog of war unexpected things sometimes happen during the chaos, mistakes are made, wrong targets are hit, sometimes there’s friendly fire, things can go horribly wrong.

In the fog of Kofi’s thinking, Israel is the real threat to world peace, not the terrorists or their state sponsors.  Israel is the one who should show restraint, not Hezbollah who has fired thousands of rockets and missiles into Israel for the crime of daring to exist.  Israel is the bad guy for bombing Lebanese infrastructure, but Lebanon is utterly blameless for allowing itself to be hijacked by terrorists whose goal is the destruction of Israel.

It’s Kofi in la-la land, a parallel universe where up is down and down is up and everything is nonsense.  But trying to destroy the vicious terrorist organization Hezbollah is a serious, no-nonsense endeavor for which Israel ought to be thanked, not condemned.  The last thing Israel needs is Annan’s bug-eyed accusations.  It only leads to more bad press and the world is full of people stupid enough to believe it.

Greg Strange provides conservative commentary with plenty of acerbic wit on the people, politics, events and absurdities of our time. See more at his website: http://www.greg-strange.com/

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  • http://houstonconservative.com Will Malven

    I would have if I were them, as effective as they were in preventing the attacks on Israel.

  • http://houstonconservative.com Will Malven

    I would have if I were them, as effective as they were in preventing the attacks on Israel.

  • http://houstonconservative.com Will Malven

    I would have if I were them, as effective as they were in preventing the attacks on Israel.

  • http://houstonconservative.com Will Malven

    I would have if I were them, as effective as they were in preventing the attacks on Israel.

  • Hal

    If Kofi-boy had been in the “listening post” (UN-speak for pedophile sanctuary) I could have easily been persuaded it was deliberate. We could have called it the “missile for food” scandal.

  • Hal

    If Kofi-boy had been in the “listening post” (UN-speak for pedophile sanctuary) I could have easily been persuaded it was deliberate. We could have called it the “missile for food” scandal.

  • Hal

    If Kofi-boy had been in the “listening post” (UN-speak for pedophile sanctuary) I could have easily been persuaded it was deliberate. We could have called it the “missile for food” scandal.

  • Hal

    If Kofi-boy had been in the “listening post” (UN-speak for pedophile sanctuary) I could have easily been persuaded it was deliberate. We could have called it the “missile for food” scandal.

  • Hal

    If Kofi-boy had been in the “listening post” (UN-speak for pedophile sanctuary) I could have easily been persuaded it was deliberate. We could have called it the “missile for food” scandal.






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