Gallery of the Absurd: Hezbollah the Charitable
Submitted for your consideration, a tale from the Twilight Zone enters our Gallery of the Absurd.
Perhaps we should call upon Hezbollah the next time the US suffers a major disaster. If we are to believe the New York Times:
Gee golly heck, what was Bush thinking? He should have called Hezbollah to clean up after hurricane Katrina.
Speaking of Katrina, FEMA gave out debit cards with $2000 balances to folks made homeless by the disaster. Compare that to what is happening in Lebanon, according to the Times:
Why not just replace the Red Cross with Hezbollah? Lets declare a cease fire in Iraq and let Hezbollah go to work!
In the end, I suppose, the report of relief efforts are some kind of diversion to keep us from looking too hard at the Lebanese people who endured the brunt of the Israeli assault when Hezbollah fighters cowardly hid among the civilian population.
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Hezbollah Leads Work to Rebuild, Gaining Stature
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 15 (NYT) -- As stunned Lebanese returned Tuesday over broken roads to shattered apartments in the south, it increasingly seemed that the beneficiary of the destruction was most likely to be Hezbollah.
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Perhaps we should call upon Hezbollah the next time the US suffers a major disaster. If we are to believe the New York Times:
[H]undreds of Hezbollah members spread over dozens of villages across southern Lebanon began cleaning, organizing and surveying damage. Men on bulldozers were busy cutting lanes through giant piles of rubble. Roads blocked with the remnants of buildings are now, just a day after a cease-fire began, fully passable.
Hezbollah’s reputation as an efficient grass-roots social service network — as opposed to the Lebanese government, regarded by many here as sleek men in suits doing well — was in evidence everywhere. Young men with walkie-talkies and clipboards were in the battered Shiite neighborhoods on the southern edge of Bint Jbail, taking notes on the extent of the damage.
Gee golly heck, what was Bush thinking? He should have called Hezbollah to clean up after hurricane Katrina.
Speaking of Katrina, FEMA gave out debit cards with $2000 balances to folks made homeless by the disaster. Compare that to what is happening in Lebanon, according to the Times:
[A] Hezbollah official said the group would offer an initial $10,000 to residents to help pay for the year of rent, to buy new furniture and to help feed families.
Why not just replace the Red Cross with Hezbollah? Lets declare a cease fire in Iraq and let Hezbollah go to work!
In the end, I suppose, the report of relief efforts are some kind of diversion to keep us from looking too hard at the Lebanese people who endured the brunt of the Israeli assault when Hezbollah fighters cowardly hid among the civilian population.
NEWSBYTES
Hezbollah Leads Work to Rebuild, Gaining Stature
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 15 (NYT) -- As stunned Lebanese returned Tuesday over broken roads to shattered apartments in the south, it increasingly seemed that the beneficiary of the destruction was most likely to be Hezbollah.
Tags: Media, Journalism, United States, Headlines, wire, Middle East, Gaza, Israel, Palestinians, Hamas, Bush, UN, U.N., United Nations, Iran, War, Military, terrorism, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Hezbollah, Beirut, Palestine, Syria, Hizbollah, Gallery of the Absurd
Global Tags: Washington DC, News and Politics, News, Politics, Current Events, Current Affairs, Life, Culture, Tension
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