By disproportionate does one mean "excessive?" Well, isn't that the point? Isn't the penalty supposed to be so punitive that the incitement never happens again?The response from Hezbollah to Israel's actions seem to run along the lines of, "We kidnap two Jews and this happens? Suppose Israel responded this way all the time? Then we'd never get to kidnap anyone!"
And have we ever hae a clearer-speaking UN rep than John Bolton? Money quote, via Lucianne:
"What Hezbollah has done is kidnap Israeli soldiers and rain rockets and mortar shells on innocent Israeli civilians. What Israel has done in response is act in self-defense. And I don't quite know what the argument about proportionate force means here. Is Israel entitled only to kidnap two Hezbollah operatives and fire a couple of rockets aimlessly into Lebanon?
"The situation is that Israel has lived under the terrorist threat of Hezbollah for years, and these most recent attacks have given it the legitimate right, the same right America would have if we were attacked, to deal with the problem. And that's what they're doing."
Pie-yah.
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