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Israel's assault on Lebanon harms democracy
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Contributor | Penguin |
Last Edited | Penguin Aug 05, 2006 11:14pm |
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Category | Opinion |
Media | Newspaper - Madison Capital Times |
News Date | Sunday, August 6, 2006 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | Condoleezza Rice recently referred to Israel's aerial bombardment of Lebanon as "the birth pangs of democracy in Middle East."
For Rice and her compatriots in the Bush administration, violence is the preferred engine of social change and "democracy" a euphemism for supine governments that subordinate the interests of their own people to those of U.S. political and economic elites.
Just as the lofty goal of "democratizing" Iraq required an orgy of "good" violence, ridding Lebanon of its "undemocratic" elements justifies Israel's brutal assault on the Lebanese people.
So far, 900 innocent people have perished, over 3,000 have been seriously wounded, close to a million displaced, and Lebanon's civilian infrastructure has been decimated. Israel and its apologists would have us believe that every one of these deaths is a "regrettable mistake," an unfortunate consequence of technological failure and faulty intelligence rather than a predictable outcome of aiming heavy weapons at civilian targets. |
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