The Redhunter

At an emergency meeting of the council called to address the killings, Annan said the region was growing impatient that U.N.'s most powerful body had yet to issue any meaningful response after three weeks of war in Lebanon.

But what statement might the Security Council issue?

The five permanent members at the United States, United Kingdom, France, China, and Russia.

The rotating members currently are Argentina, Greece, Qatar, Congo, Japan, Slovakia, Denmark, Peru, Tanzania, and Ghana.

The only reasonable statement that should be issued is one supporting Israel and condemning Hezbollah. If you want to add something cautioning Israel to be careful in it's attacks fine.

But there is no way a body composed of such members would issue such a statement. Anything that would garner majority support and avoid a veto would have to be "evenhanded". In otherwords, without moral clarity. And such a statement would be completely unacceptable. Which illustrates once again why the UN is not simply worthless, but is absolutely harmful to anyone who knows right from wrong.

The Good News

The Bush Administration is resisting much pressure from around to world to jump in and call for an immediate cease fire. The President and his Secretary of State apparently realize that Hezbollah needs to be destroyed, or at least significantly degraded.

The Bad News

Unfortunately, the IDF is not having as much success as it had hoped against Hezbollah. As John Hinderaker notes on Power Line, that "It's frustratingly hard to get a good fix on the military situation" but that "my sense is that the IDF hasn't made as much headway against Hezbollah as we would have wished."

That's what I'm picking up too, from a general reading of the news. Hezbollah is proving a much tougher customer than the PLO was in 192, when Israel went into Lebanon under what they called Operation Peace of the Galilee.

The Insanity

The insanity of it all boggles the mind. The same Palestinian "militants" who are so outraged over Israel's accidental bombing, one for which it has apologized , themselves attack civilians.

Kofi Annan is completely unable to distinguish aggressor from victim. To him all participants are simply "warring parties", to be dealt with equally.

Most Arabs cannot tell between an attack on a military target in which civilians are accidentlly killed (or killed as a byproduct), from a direct attack on civilians. For that matter, many in the West seem to have forgotten that distinction as well.

The Lebanese people, most of whom seem upset that another country is trying to destroy a terrorist force occupying much of its territory. The Lebanese Prime Minister who "thanks Hizbollah for its 'sacrifices'".

More insanity in the War on Radical Islam. Just another day.