If the situation in Gaza and Washington are any indication, 2009 looks to be the “Year of Self-Destruction.” The Israel Defense Force is blasting away at Gaza in a lopsided response to Hamas’ continuing shelling of Israel and Hamas is spouting it’s same old rhetoric about destroying Israel. In Washington, Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats are lobbing shells at democracy in refusing to seat former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris, who was appointed by indicted governor Rob Blagojevich.
In an interesting post by Jane Hamsher at Huffington Post – Harry Reid, Punk’d By Blago Over Burris, Rejects The Rule Of Law – she notes, “the decisions Reid is making right now are politically motivated, with little regard for the law. And the Democrats are only in this position, and looking so compromised, because of bad decisions Reid has made in the past.”
In the mean time, Israel has launched a ham-fisted response to the annoying rocket attacks by Hamas, the elected leadership of the Palestinian people and the puppet of Iran. While pundits are piling on Israel for its attack on Gaza, Hamas continues to lob rockets back as Israel and gushing its tiresome rhetoric about oppression and so on. In the mean time, neighboring arab countries are decrying the Israeli attacks as unjustified aggression against the Palestinian people. Israeli ground troops are positioned on the border of Gaza, preparing for what appears to be a ground assault into Palestinian territory.
The interesting parallels between these seemingly unrelated situations is that the victims are the bystanders in these conflicts: the Palestinian people in Gaza and the citizens of the state of Illinois. In both situations, battling political leaders (I use this term loosely in both instances) slug it out over their respective power positions and their people get the short end of the stick.
While in both instances political leaders are backed into corners forcing them to respond in these seemingly predictible ways in order to protect their own skins, the world must bear witness to the insanity.
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