I Told You So

Well, I kinda told you so, if you happened to read my comment on someone else's site, but I forget whose site it was. Anyway, someone asked where's Bushco in the Israel-Lebanon conflict? My comment was Bushco is involved. They're involved because they are staying out of it and implicitly giving Israel a green light to keep up the assaults.

Its now explicit.

The outlines of an American-Israeli consensus began to emerge on Tuesday in which Israel would continue to bombard Lebanon for about another week to degrade the capabilities of the Hezbollah militia, officials of the two countries said.

Then, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would go to the region and seek to establish a buffer zone in southern Lebanon and perhaps an international force to monitor Lebanon’s borders to prevent Hezbollah from obtaining more rockets with which to bombard Israel.

American officials signaled that Ms. Rice was waiting at least a few more days before wading into the conflict, in part to give Israel more time to weaken Hezbollah forces.

The strategy carries risk, partly because it remains unclear just how long the rest of the world, particularly America’s Arab allies, will continue to stay silent as the toll on Lebanese civilians rises. [emphasis mine]

That "carries risk" part is putting it mildly. Bushco has few friends/allies left and this ain't gonna help one damn bit.

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