hezbollah

Deep divisions in viewpoints, talking points, the comedy of tepid campaign ads -- all this, says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. points to worthwhile points to ponder and some advice and commentary on how much our nation has changed, and changed for the worse:

Capt. Rick Rubel, USN-Ret., distinguished Professor of Ethics at the U.S.

Hat tip to Steve Gill, Barry O.’s Campaign Bus is thumping and bumping.  The Obama campaign is either throwing folks under the bus or inviting them on for hugs and pics.

First, no headscarves in the transcending race photo op, from the Politico:

I don’t know how Sophie, Kat, Shannon, Melanie and Ree do it.  I really don’t.  How does a mother - sans servants - have time to blog?

Haaretz has the following story on its English language webpage:

Hezbollah scored a major victory Saturday after four days of fighting across Lebanon, when the Lebanese army reversed two cabinet resolutions that kicked off the fighting on Wednesday. [What is this--a football game?]

In a major escalation in the political theater, the Olmert team has struck back at Netanyahu. Earlier today, Chanel 10 filed a report that Netanyahu had misused thousands shekels of public money while on a trip to London in 2006. Netanyahu announced he would sue the television station and by this afternoon, he followed through on his promise. This man delivers.

I wrote in July 2006, when the Israel-Lebanon war still raged, that it was becoming apparent that Israel's war against Hezbollah was a spasm, not a strategy. Now former Israeli army officer and blogger Yoni Tidi analyzes Israel's Winograd Report thus:

This is it in a nut shell, the real problem.