It is our fate to live in interesting times.

A Canadian family including 4 children, killed in the midst of the brutal Israeli invasion. 176 casualties in Lebanon, 13 of them militants.

Israel has lost 24, 12 of them Soldiers.

Something terrible has happened. A nation has taken into its own hands the matters of war, has embraced whole-heartedly vengeance. Sure the Americans have rampaged around the Middle East in a vengeance quest, but at least they left something to rebuild with. Israel wishes to bring a country to its knees, and its not there to liberate its people from some tyrant, its hunting down a group of Militants, so insidious and dangerous because they can blend into the populace.

America faces a smiliar threat in Iraq, and amazingly the solution isn't to charge in, guns blazing, forcing the country into submission. These militants have to be dealt with, careful. Each civilian death, each new Atrocity...Brings them more fuel to their fire, just as the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan served tofuel islamic fundamentalism.

We cannot stand idly by as Israel pursues this agression, because we cannot support a country that so disregards international law, and so presumptuously thinks it can do what it wants. If there is to be any resolution, it must be by both sides.

But there are those Canadian dead. Dead children, Canadian, Lebanese, Israeli. One cannot call either side good or evil, for such days of righteous chivalry are gone, and only shades of grey remain. But one can ponder this...Is Israel becoming what it so fears? As evil and as vile as the Hesbollah fighters, call them terrorists if you will, and even as evil and as vile as those who commited that event that they should remember. Burned into their minds should be the Horror of the Second World War, and what was wrought upon them. Yet even now they are savage and war-like, and children lie dead.

Something, perhaps, to think about.