Monday, February 22, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Syria Responds To Obama's Engagement, Threatens To Saturation Bomb Israeli Civilians - '...It must be nice to have the freedom to explicitly threaten the other side's civilians. Israel, of course, focuses exclusively on military targets. Which isn't something they should be rewarded for - it's what decent countries do - but the contrast is stark. Not only does the Israeli political echelon refrain from threatening war crimes, but the IDF really does goes out of its way to limit civilian casualties. And yet for some reason, over the last year, Syria has grown closer to America while US/Israeli relations are at historic lows. Strange, that...'
