So, little Arab children, even if Canadian citizens, don’t matter as much as Israeli citizens?
Remember, there are 25,000 American citizens in Lebanon too. I guess they don’t count, either.
And we wonder why they hate us. Really?
I hate Bolton too now, for that matter. Fucker.
Lebanon civilian deaths morally not same as terror victims — Bolton – Yahoo! News
US Ambassador John Bolton said there was no moral equivalence between the civilian casualties from the Israeli raids in Lebanon and those killed in
Israel from “malicious terrorist acts”.
Asked to comment on the deaths in an Israeli air strike of eight Canadian citizens in southern Lebanon Sunday, he said: “it is a matter of great concern to us …that these civilian deaths are occurring. It’s a tragedy.”
“I think it would be a mistake to ascribe moral equivalence to civilians who die as the direct result of malicious terrorist acts,” he added, while defending as “self-defense” Israel’s military action, which has had “the tragic and unfortunate consequence of civilian deaths”.
The eight dead Canadians were a Lebanese-Canadian couple, their four children, his mother and an uncle, said relatives in Montreal.
The Montreal pharmacist and his family had arrived in Lebanon 10 days earlier for a vacation in his parents’ home village and to introduce his children to relatives, they said.
Three of his Lebanese relatives died too, a family member told AFP.
“It’s simply not the same thing to say that it’s the same act to deliberately target innocent civilians, to desire their deaths, to fire rockets and use explosive devices or kidnapping versus the sad and highly unfortunate consequences of self-defense,” Bolton noted.
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This is the kind of thing that makes us Americans look stupid before the world. I’m sure Bolton’s not really saying that one life is less valuable than another, but maybe his poorly-chosen words and ill-timed remarks poorly convey whatever the hell he’s trying to say.
It reads like he might be trying to point out that killing people by accident during an act of self defense isn’t the moral equivalent of killing them on purpose during an act of terrorism. Personally, I don’t know if he’s right or not. Either way, the people are murdered – and it’s a damn callous way to act in the wake of such tragedy, when you’re a public official speaking in the press, and you know that the family’s bound to hear it. He should have said how sorry he is for their loss, and renewed calls for the violence to end before many more families experience it.
I don’t know Mr. Bolton personally, so I can’t say for sure what he thinks. I get the feeling that he simply misspoke, but again I can’t say for sure. What I can say for sure is this that the lives of Canadians, Arabs, Americans, and Israelis – and all others, for that matter – are equally important and their murders are equally tragic.
Thanks for lettin’ me vent
~scruff