contradictions and contraindications

ive been reading with great interest the papers of late.. no, not for mawi (who broke his engagement july10th and is most emphatically NOT seeing anyone) or siti nurhaliza (who's FINALLY getting married with 25 million wedding dresses, the value of which could feed starving villages in africa for years) tho i wont deny it made for fun reading.

i was eager to read about what ive deemed to be the most expensive, painful and unnecessary puppet show of our time. israel is the ragged, torn doll and the the Hezbollah is the master puppeteer. strange analogy i know, but after ages of angst and distress, it occurred to me to sit up and see this for what it was - thanks to a wine-fulled discussion with two delightfully verbose old men.

This is the largest, THE most successful PR blitz ever, and Hezbollah is the star. feeding on israel's neverending desire for retribution and attention, the Hezbollah has managed to get on thier side the most unlikely of allies even if its merely opposite someone they hate more. hey, support is still support, for whatever reason its being dished out.

so as much the world has tried to retaliate against guerilla warfare, this particular guerilla gets nothing but sympathy and support - all handed on the proverbial israeli silver platter.

what israel shold have done, say my two old men, is play martyr properly. the two captured soldiers (who for the record ARE STILL ALIVE in comparison to hundreds of dead lebanese) should have been sacrificed for the cause they signed up for, and the tables would have been turned - the hezbollahs would have seemed to be the barbarians, and the poor israelites the heroes. admittedly not the best state of affairs to be in and certainly not one i agree with, but still preferable to the way things are now. and please, i dont mean to be discompassionate to the israeli sodiers, but with all due respect you dont sign up to the army on an immortality clause - especially not in israel.

anyhow, israel, obviously forgetting about the innocent civilans already dead, decide to dramatise this capture, thus starting off the most apathetic bloodshed recent years. i say this because of what it is, and the nature of the people who have died as a result. no one has really died for the sake of struggling nation, these ppl will never have their names on plaque or statue. they died because two armies, armed with nothing but the minds of annoyed, argumentative 3-year olds, just didnt know any better than to fight.

i suppose it is necessary for me to point out the irony in this all, this ridicolous game of tit for tat, is that both warring factions can eventually trace the roots of their dissent to a single source. The most laughable part of it all is that Uncle Sam has still no clue he's done it.

we are waiting for a resurrection. not of religious figure - no one is lured by spiritual salvation anymore, it is money that speaks today. we are waiting for a political and economic resurgence that will somehow restore balance to the terribly odd way we are tipped in one direction. we need a movement that is motivated by pure will to rise. above whom now seems immaterial. it should just be above teh complacency we have all settled into, chasing after a sense of false power. charity means nothing if it follows in the wake of a price to be paid. if charity for charity's sake is gone, then fire, unfortunately, needs to be fought with more fire.

the US speaks of their only real pride, their freedom of speech. of all the things in the land of the free i have seen, speech and thought is certainly not it.