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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (206454)	5/20/2007 9:16:15 PM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 793927

But of course. For a "massacre" you need outrage; for outrage, you need a "Western" player who is subject to judgement, e.g. Israelis I thought you'd like that one, Nadine.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (206454)	5/21/2007 3:10:20 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793927

POWERLINE picks on the same subject, Nadine. Curses It's often noted that our presidents don't come from the Senate anymore. The last president elected from the Senate was John Kennedy, and he was an historical rarity even then. The most common explanation for this phenomenon is that Senators are called upon to make tough votes that tend to undermine their popularity. Though this probably is an important factor, let me suggest another -- the Senate is a fairly rotten place. For example, it's the kind of place where 14 Senators can hijack the judicial confirmation process. Worse, it's kind of place where a handful of Senators can reach a deal on fundamental issues about the identity of America and then try to force a vote on the resulting 600 page bill with little time for the body as a whole to study or debate it. This year, John McCain is the lone first-tier Republican presidential candidate jeopardized by the "curse of the Senate." But don't think of McCain as a potential victim of the curse; think of him as the embodiment of the sort of high-handedness and arrogance that lies behind the curse. powerlineblog.com

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (206454)	5/22/2007 4:13:10 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793927

Update on the fighting at Nahr el Bared near Tripoli, as blogged from a BBC World Report: Third consecutive day of artillery and tank shelling of the Narh el Barad camp. Only a few hundred Fatah al Islam fighters entrenched among the civilian population; rumours of truces to allow the wounded to be evacuated, but no sign of a letup. Lebanese goverment official says they have a duty to protect their own civilian population from the fire coming from the camp. Needless to say, if it was Israeli troops shelling the camp, the headline "Massacre at Nahr el Bared" would appear all over the world, with casualty figures in the thousands reported as fact. Amnesty International etc. would denounce the "war crime" of attacking the civilian population to get at the 'militants' among them. Interestingly, the only two people quoted from Lebanon were the BBC reporter and a spokesman for the Lebanese government. No Palestinians at all. When there is fighting in Gaza or the WB, the BBC always gives twice as much airtime to Palestinian spokesmen as to Israelis (somebody documented this during the 2nd intifada).