Maybe someone can explain to me why so many journalists and politicians are clamoring for diplomacy, for negotiations, for terms of agreement, and.......unbelievably.......for a U. N. resolution.  Unless someone has been living in a cave for the past few decades and is totally ignorant of the events that have unfolded in the Middle East during that time, he/she must know that terrorists have no use for diplomacy, that their set-in-stone goals leave no room for negotiations, that they do not honor terms of agreement, and that a U. N. resolution does exist that covers the present situation.......only Hezbollah hasn't honored it any more than it would honor a new one.

U. N. Security Council Resolution 1559 contains a provision that calls for the disbanding and disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias, including Hezbollah.  I believe the resolution is now two years old, and Hezbollah has neither disbanded nor disarmed itself.  If anything, it has grown in strength and numbers.  So.....why does the so-called "international community" believe that anything the U. N. does will have any lasting effect?  I just hope we won't be seeing any more requests for one of those "land for peace" arrangements, since it should be evident to everyone by now that Hezbollah doesn't want part of Israel.  Their goal is to take ALL of Israel.    

I think I understand (although I don't condone) the reasons why some countries choose to remain silent.  And of course I understand the compliance of the nations who simply hate the U. S. and will oppose us on just about any issue.  I also understand (although I am shocked by it) the complacence of the American people, who are torn between what the administration tells them and what they read in the media.  What I don't understand is the attitude of the  media and our liberal politicians.   Since I can't bring myself to believe that the liberal media hates Bush so much that it would completely and deliberately obliterate the truth, then I have to assume they are simply blinded to it.  And that in itself is mind-boggling.

Most of the people I talk to don't think of themselves as Republicans or Democrats.   Their views are often mixed and cannot be placed in either a conservative or liberal mold.  In fact, all of them have only one thing common:  they're confused.  They don't know who or what to believe.  Do they believe the President, even though the media has made them distrustful of his administration?  Or do they believe the media, which blames the President for the war on terror (and just about everything else) and insists that things would be oh so much better if we just brought the troops home?  In the end......people choose to believe what they WANT to believe.  And they would rather believe that there are simple solutions to the problem.

"Our aggression is only making  things worse," they say.   "If we use diplomacy instead of exhibiting a military presence in Iraq, we will be able to co-exist peacefully with the terrorists." 

Oh.....really??

Why is it so hard for some people to understand that this is not a war between nations?  This is not a war that can be fought in a conventional way.  This is a war with people who are scattered in every major country of the planet.....ready to strike from within at a moment's notice.  Their religion may have different denominations.  Their ideologies may conflict.  Their leaders may despise each other.  But, they are united by one common cause:  their hatred for Americans and their way of life.  They don't want peaceful co-existence.  They simply want us eradicated from the face of the planet. 

So.....tell me how you're going to "negotiate" with this type of enemy.  The U. N.?  Go ahead and bring them in.  Let them come up with yet another worthless resolution.  Let them place a nice little band-aid on a wound so large that it will be bleeding again within weeks or months.