Itchy, Scratchy, and the Lash

So, a year ago, Israel, the U.S.'s closest ally ever, attacked southern Lebanon with a disproportionate retaliation to Hezbollah crossing the Israeli border to kidnap IDF soldiers (some reports say it actually happened in Lebanon). They destroyed most of southern Lebanon's infrastructure and killed an insane amount of Lebanese civilians and very few Hezbollah fighters. The Israeli death toll, mostly from primitive, aimless rockets being blindly shot from across the border, was tepid.

The U.S. refused to broker a cease-fire, even advised AGAINST it, insisting that Israel had a right to defend itself, even if it meant going way over board, which they most certainly did. Southern Lebanon is still being rebuilt (largely by Hezbollah), and thousands of Lebanese have still not been able to return. The U.S. wouldn't even go so far as to condemn an Israeli plane destroying a building containing about 60 women and children, killing all of them. After all, Israel had a right to defend itself.

Cut to present day: Russia retaliates against Georgia, a U.S. ally, for moving in to take over South Ossetia, a seperatist "state" allied with Russia, that is not recognized by the rest of the world, who recognize it as simply a part of Georgia. South Ossetia has been functioning without international intervention since the early 90's, but since Georgia wants to join NATO, they kinda need to take over their entire country, and that meant silencing S.O.'s cause for independence.

Russia has moved their tanks and ships into Georgia proper, and the U.S. is now clamoring loudly for a cease-fire, saying that Russia's retaliation is disproportionate. Everyone keeps saying how much "bigger" Russia is than Georgia, and that Georgia is the underdog, even though Georgia has the support of the E.U. and the U.N, and is largely responsible for the 1,500 dead civilians in South Ossetia.

I wish just once that a major foreign entanglement didn't shed light on American hypocrisy. Just once.

Now, I'm not saying what Russia is doing is correct, but it's really none of our business (not the American people's anyway. The U.S. government, on the other hand...). Furthermore, we shouldn't be making matters worse by obviously trying to make Russia look like a tyrant, when in fact, Russia has a right to defend itself.

Just like Israel did.

This is war, right? I guess all is fair.