Sunday, August 06, 2006

Refugees Of Their Own Making

"...The UN has estimated that 900,000 people have left the southern towns of Lebanon and moved north.

Sidon, a bit up the coast from Tyre, has absorbed about 100,000 displaced people into its schools, churches and mosques. It is also where many of the relief agencies are based.

At Mihnayat Saida, a large school complex in Sidon where about 1,600 people are living, refugees praised the energetic volunteers who have tended to them. Doctors are on hand and there are daily recreation programs for children.

"We hope we can sustain this until the war ends," said Samah Jastin, 27, a science teacher who volunteers for the Hariri Foundation, a private aid organization that runs the camp. "We have the resources and the energy for now."

Inside classrooms, people have been sleeping on mattresses and have been given small electric stoves to cook on. Volunteers lead children in nursery rhymes and supervise them while they play on the playground.

But for most relief agencies, like Medecins Sans Frontiers, a French organization that provides emergency medical care, Lebanon has been a logistical nightmare."

What a shame. Seriously. 1400 years of kill the Jews, the infidels, the butcher the baker the candlestick maker, and this is all islam has left. Their leaders living in caves or soon to be, but their only source of revenue remains a hot ticket so for the forseeable future moslems can at least buy enough weapon systems to wreck the havoc they so dearly love, yet this comes at a price. When gas was 19 cents a gallon they couldn't afford to rock the world on a regular basis, but we solved all that when soccer moms fell in love with megacruisers and fed the hungry kitty to the point of bursting. But instead of playing it cool and aligning themselves with the folks who make real weapons, then acting all sincere and swell until they had enough modern mojo to go toe to toe with anyone, they kept up the madman act until even the Loons are wondering whats up with this shit. But the Loons can't help them this time, or any more, really. Kids fiddling with mom's pc in the family recroom aren't the best of bases from which to launch worldwide offenses against, well, the world, and the Euro's have been bankrupt for so long they can't help either.

No, it's attack democracy then get your ass kicked. Vote for the Hezzies then learn a lesson. Remembering the lesson might be a good thing, though. Allah ISN'T sending Mo's descendants in on glossy back horsies to take back the holy lands, and all attacking Israel does is destroy what vestige of civilization remained, so don't go crying to me. It's a shame when kids and women who can't vote get their hard knocks, but it's their men who are to blame, not anyone elses. We keep asking you to join the real world and you keep saying no, so enjoy this squallor while you can, because it's going to get worse. The kissing cousins in Iran are due for a beatdown soon, and there goes the cash to buy old Russian junk, so then what? Waiting for Hillary might not be such a good idea, either. Or maybe you didn't listen to her shrillness the other day while she read her notes on why Rummy was such a bad bad man. She had to READ her protestations. Keep betting on the wrong horse and one day the world isn't going to stop at just the occasional bloody nose.

Just some friendly advice. Take it or leave it. But don't come crying to us.

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