Barefoot in the wilderness
in search of understanding

How can they think otherwise?

Heather at Driftwood asks some questions about the consequences of the current attacks on Lebanon. Most particularly, about the western (lack of) response to the indiscriminate attacks on civilian infrastructure and many civilian deaths.

how can the Arab world believe anything else except that an Arab life is worth less than non-Arabs?? How can we be suprised by anti-western sentiment among Muslim communities? Why are we standing by letting these heinous crimes against innocent people go unstopped and practically uncriticised?

Notice that the issue here is the proportionality of the response and the recognition of basic standards of decency. The attacks by Hezbollah on Israel are also wrong.

pax et bonum