Monday Blog Break

This afternoon I'm writing for no better reason than I just wanted to take a break from the drudgery of work.

Let's go with some brief observations.

How can NBC credibly claim any sense of balance when Meet the Press this Sunday had not one single Republican or Conservative to respond to the litany of idiocy and pandering spouted by their left-wing guests? I turned it off after about 10 minutes of Russ Feingold demonstrating why he is the worst possible choice for the job of Commander in Chief in two years.

If Feingold is being honest, he's a dangerous idiot. If not, he's just a John Kerry clone. I saw Jack Murtha, and sure hope somebody's running against him in his district, because the old coot's senile. Hillary's pandering with her proposal that sounds a lot like what the President and his generals are actually doing, but at least she seems halfway logical.

I think it would be cool if we let North Korea shoot their missile across the Pacific, but take it out in flight with our "Star Wars" system. For one thing, I'm interested to see if the system actually works. For another, just think about the impact that would make on the rest of the world: Go ahead if you want to shoot at us, we'll just knock your missiles out of the air.

I'm wondering how anybody can possibly take the weekend attack in Israel as Israel's fault? Some Hamas militants build a tunnel under the fence from Gaza, which by the way was territory just given them by the Israelis in hope it would lead to peace. They engage the Israeli military in a shootout, then escape back to their territory with a captive Israeli soldier.

And this was Israel's fault how? And Israel should give them even more territory why?

Let's see if I can recap the facts:

Israel's a soverign nation. They have prospered and built an oasis in what used to be an impoverished desert region. They employ Palestinian Arabs and help them prosper as well, as long as those Arabs don't shoot at them or blow them up. They have agreed in principle, and have actually ceded big chunks of their territory to allow the Palestinians their own country.

Again, in what way exactly does this make Israel the villain in this conflict? Sometimes the road to peace isn't through pacifism, but victory. If the UN was anything close to an effective organization, here's what they should do:

1. Broker a final agreement between Israel and the Palestinians for borders and peace.
2. Help both countries create that border and enforce it with International Troops. Bill both countries for the security forces.
3. Impose severe sanctions on anybody that disrupts the peace. Do this in every way possible, including incarceration of individual terrorists up to financial sanctions on the government that might have supported them in any way.

It could work. But not from the UN.