I heard this story on Morning Edition this morning as I was driving my own kids to summer camp and daycare. This afternoon, I ran across a similar story on CNN. Clearly, the two stories are about the same family, but the names don’t match and neither do the ages. It’s minor, but I’m wondering now who’s correct and who didn’t fact check?
It’s a horrible story no matter who’s got it right. I’m certainly not qualified to get into a foreign policy debate, but it seems to me that this is just an endless spiral of retaliation that won’t end until one side or the other decides they’ve had enough. No one is blameless. I can’t side with the Israelis. I can’t side with Hezbollah or Iran or Syria. I’ll side with the family whose car got bombed. Un-fucking-believable.
[tags]tyre, lebanon, israel, cnn, npr, innocentvictims[/tags]
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