The North Koreans sneak up on a non-combatant, fire torpedoes into the ship, and kill over forty men: No international response. The Israeli boarding party fights back and kills nine professional terrorists and provocateurs who have tried to create an international incident: International outrage.
After weeks of posturing over the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the administration sends an overseer, a movie director who did a film on the Titanic. I know Christopher Reeves is dead but wasn't Wolverine available?
The G20 will meet in South Korea. Is that because last year's meeting in Pittsburgh solved so many of our international economic problems?
Will the demonstrators at the G20 be more or less violent than the Tea Partiers?
Two of the organizers of the peace group Free Gaza are Bernadette Dohrn and Bill Ayers, two notorious Weather Underground members responsible for a number of American deaths. Have they changed?
What is the endgame if Hamas is allowed to receive any imports they wish in Gaza?
If Israel finally comes under unrelenting military siege by its enemies and their very survival questioned, will the Israelis just surrender and move to Pebble Beach or will something more ominous emerge out of their impending destruction? (Think Samson.)
The state of Israel was created in Arab lands by fiat by the United Nations. It is the single biggest point of contention in the entire world and has aside from Russia's rise and decline dominated the Western World's politics and economics since the second World War. Have supporters of the U.N. revised their opinion and expectation of the U.N. downward?
After the government failures in Katrina, the oil spill, the economy and the welfare state in general have the believers in the power of government to influence our problems in a positive way been chastened?
The Greek demonstrators oppose cuts in their benefits and increases in their taxes. What is the third option? Ditto the U.S..
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