WEEK FROM THE PIT OF HELL

Foreign Policy for Morons-
Was her PHD in "Conflict Perpetuation?"
It takes more than a nice wardrobe to be a Secretary of State.

It is being stupidly broadcast all over the news that Condolezza Rice is stating that we are going to "give" the Israeli's one more week to accomplish their mission in driving Hezbollah across the River to create a buffer zone beyond and larger than the 12 miles that their Rockets can reach the Israeli border.
After setting the curtains on fire, she now apparently wants to look like she has the power to
call in the fire-fighters to stop the inferno and save the House. But wait, its worse, she is broadcasting that she doesn't think she has to do it yet because she wants to recreate the Middle East in the image of their New World Order which she thinks can only be done after we raize in a blaze of glory the whole of Southern Lebanon. WHAT AN IDIOT.
I can't think of anything more stupid than broadcasting that we think we have the power to stop this conflict and at the same time saying we want it to go on for another week because the only way we can achieve our objectives in the "war on terror" is to facilitate or allow the raizing in a blaze the entire Southern portion of Lebanon because we have no confidence that anything we try to accomplish will stick at this point. ASSININE.
In a week, about a half million innocent civilians will die. More will be physically and/or mentally impaired with the war trauma. More will be that much more inflamed and incited to call their Shiite buddies to action across the globe, more fundamental ire will be whipped up, more calls to destroy the US will rise from the ashes, more hatred and loathing will foam from every Jihad corner of the globe and Iran waits poised.
Rather than try to diplomatically stop Hezbollah from sending the Rockets (they have members in the democratically elected new Lebanese democracy she touts as her baby but apparently concedes now she has no control over), she wants the Israelis to militarily decimate the entire Southern portion of Lebanon.
I have to tell you that the country, and the world are beyond disgusted at the US government. We are viewed as not just diplomatically incompetent and so ill-esteemed as to be futile, but we are viewed as quite evil- not by just Jihadists but by Christian "civilized" nations. European ones. The ones from whom we for the most part inherited our value structures in civilized life. It's this sort of strategy that gives the world this impression.
The rest of Europe including Tony Blair, Chirac, Merkel the German Chancellor, the UN and all "civilized" nations, the ranks from which we are fastly falling because of our penchant for carnage over diplomacy has been calling
on getting Hezbollah to cease-fire and hostage exchange which would in turn stop the Israeli justification for the Southern Lebanon incursion. But OH NO, the twisted Sister from the South,
the sick hate filled vicious glaring diplomatic blow torch we call a Secretary of State would rather see the entire Southern Lebanon go out in a blaze. Even the Saudis have better sense. Certainly the Israelis do- they want NATO troops to enforce a cease-fire. But we don't.
The Israeli's know that if the Rocket attacks continue absent a cease-fire, they will have to continue to "eye for eye, tooth for tooth" retaliate ratcheting up the escalation and the eventual intervention of Syria to save Lebanese civilians will result. That will be an uncontainable fire and make peace-making all that more difficult.
What's the rush? Let this go on for twelve days before she ever sets foot in the Middle East then let it go on for another week or so. Someone please grab the wheel of this ship before the country is shipwrecked on the shoals.
It was recently remarked "Here is where the people in the white coats come to get the Neo-Cons" because people like William Kristol and no doubt Cheney, the Master of Malice, are foaming at the mouth at the "opportunity" the assault on Israel has presented to clean out Iran. Kristol actually hailed this as an "opportunity."
Who is in control of this country? By that I mean the US. Who ever is condoning this moronic vile "strategic error" should be not only Impeached, and tarred and feathered, but should never ever ever again be given a dime to make one public speech or profit in any fashion from what are surely war crimes upon war crimes upon war crimes upon the bodies of burned children.
Iraq is on the brink of Civil War. Condi thinks that this and the Lebanese massacre are just the "birth pangs" of the new world order that they are creating. Here's a thought- have a real baby, adopt an embryo or something and leave the World Order to the real professionals. There will be no "order" from your carnage. The only "New World Order" we are going to inherit from the most ill-conceived, misguided foreign policy that has ever been constructed in my lifetime is generations of hatred and loathing by millions of Muslims, hundreds of thousands of dead people, completely destroyed civilizations and cities, piles of rubble and fractured concrete falling on the heads of bewildered innocents, and a world who thinks that we have lost our collective minds and needs to be contained. We are asking for it.

Monday Update:
Day 13 of the "Crisis." CNN is reporting now that Rice has a surprise visit to Lebanon and is in Beirut to discuss the Humanitarian issues and "fact find." She isn't planning on engaging the Syrians to help construct any cease-fire. It is still being reported that the purpose of the visit to Beirut is not to put pressure on Beirut to stop the Hezbollah rocket attacks.
Hopefully she is trying to enlist the Lebanese to enforce law and order there and enscript them to fight Hezbollah. There seems to be no popular will to do that to date as Hezbollah appears entrenched in Lebanese Shiite society.
No one believes a cease-fire should be unilateral and just the obligation of Israel. But everything should be done to stop the Rocket attacks.
Today, it is reported that subsequent to the attacks on Tyre and Sidon, the dawn of Monday saw some quieting of the rocket attacks. Lets hope Rice can put pressure on Beirut to come down hard on Hezbollah.