Mark Steyn manages to bring baseball and tennis into his essay on the Israel/Hezbollah conflict:
But, when an army goes to war against a terrorist organization, it's like watching the Red Sox play Andre Agassi: Each side is being held to its own set of rules. When Hezbollah launches rockets into Israeli residential neighborhoods with the intention of killing random civilians, that's fine because, after all, they're terrorists and that's what terrorists do. But when, in the course of trying to resist the terrorists, Israel unintentionally kills civilians, that's an appalling act of savagery.Read the whole thing for his breakdown of the breakdown of "proportionality". Posted by Vox at August 24, 2006 12:35 PM | TrackBack | politics