List of Things That Would Cause Us to Have More Sympathy for Lebanon's Prime Minister
He seems genuinely torn up:
Lebanon's prime minister, choking back tears, demanded a "quick and decisive ceasefire" on Monday after an Israeli air raid that he said killed more than 40 civilians sheltering from fighting in a southern village. As diplomatic efforts to end the 27-day-old war between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas stalled, air raids elsewhere in the south and the Bekaa valley killed at least 24 Lebanese and Israel said it may expand its ground offensive. "An hour ago, a horrific massacre took place in Houla village as a result of the intentional Israeli bombardment that resulted in more than 40 martyrs," Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora told an Arab foreign ministers meeting in Beirut.
We'd have more sympathy for him if:
(1) He hadn't previously made Hezbollah - the proxy army that, we remind you, actually started this war - a respected member of the ruling coalition that he chose to put in charge of Lebanon
(2) He hadn't issued a statement all but thanking Hezbollah for starting the war that he's now crying about.
(3) He wasn't, you know, lying through his teeth:
Lebanon's Prime Minister said today that Israeli raids had killed 40 civilians in a "horrific massacre" in a border village, before correcting himself hours later to put the toll at just one dead... Prime Minister Fuad Saniora broke into tears at a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers as he described the attack.
Because those kinds of things make us not like him very much.
Lebanon's prime minister, choking back tears, demanded a "quick and decisive ceasefire" on Monday after an Israeli air raid that he said killed more than 40 civilians sheltering from fighting in a southern village. As diplomatic efforts to end the 27-day-old war between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas stalled, air raids elsewhere in the south and the Bekaa valley killed at least 24 Lebanese and Israel said it may expand its ground offensive. "An hour ago, a horrific massacre took place in Houla village as a result of the intentional Israeli bombardment that resulted in more than 40 martyrs," Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora told an Arab foreign ministers meeting in Beirut.
We'd have more sympathy for him if:
(1) He hadn't previously made Hezbollah - the proxy army that, we remind you, actually started this war - a respected member of the ruling coalition that he chose to put in charge of Lebanon
(2) He hadn't issued a statement all but thanking Hezbollah for starting the war that he's now crying about.
(3) He wasn't, you know, lying through his teeth:
Lebanon's Prime Minister said today that Israeli raids had killed 40 civilians in a "horrific massacre" in a border village, before correcting himself hours later to put the toll at just one dead... Prime Minister Fuad Saniora broke into tears at a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers as he described the attack.
Because those kinds of things make us not like him very much.
