The Inhumanity of Cease-Fires ***UPDATE***

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Beating up on the anti-American bias of most professional reports brings great joy to bloggers. Once in a while, though, we owe appreciation to those who write history contemporaneously.Â

Today’s Associated Press story, which I retrieved from MSNBC.com, earns my respect. It helps, of course, that I didn’t read past the second paragraph. I didn’t have to. The first two told all that needed to be told of the story, and only the opinion writer could expand. Thus, were I to read the rest of the story, my appreciation for the writer’s skill would diminish, improperly, because only partisanship would emerge.Â

Israel on Saturday rejected a request by the U.N. for a three-day cease-fire in Lebanon to deliver humanitarian supplies and allow civilians to leave the war zone.

Avi Pazner, a government spokesman, said Israel already has opened safe corridors across Lebanon for such shipments and that Hezbollah guerrillas were blocking them to create a humanitarian crisis.

Were the AP to ask me to write the rest of the story, I would begin by pointing out that cease-fires are barbarous affairs, orchestrated by the blood-thirsty to give the losing side a chance to regroup, thus staving off defeat and protracting the war.Â

I would point out that imminent winners cannot benefit from cease-fires. In war, as in boxing, the objective of the fighter is to keep his opponent on the ropes until he can deliver the knock-out punch. The wise fighter relies not on the opinions of corrupt judges sitting ringside. He relies not on the objectivity of referee. He relies, rightly, on his own corner and his own hands and feet. He relies, first, on victory through K.O.Â

Ever since Ray Mancini comatized an unfortuntate victim who subsequently died of brain damage suffered in the ring, boxing commissions have insisted on standing eight-counts whenever a box appears on the verge of collapse. The result, of course, is increased likelihood of permanent brain damage. The eight-counts allow the already defeated boxer to accept more blows to the head.Â

The United Nations asked Israel to stand down for an eight-count, or, more accurately, a three day count. The UN claims the purpose of the eight-count would be to rush humanitarian aid to innocents hurt by the war. While that might be a side-effect, the more significant result of the break in fighting would be to allow Hezbollah terrorists and their Syrian and Iranian benefactors to regroup, rearm, and recruit. After three days, rockets of increased range, lethality, and frequency would rain down on Israel. Likewise, Israel would unleash ever increasing violence upon the Hezbollah with due disregard for collateral damage.Â

As with most things, the United Nations can only make things worse for the helpless victims of war.

Israel rightly rejected the UN’s bloodthirst. The greatest ally America has known since Churchill’s Britain will pursue its noble objective of relieving Lebanon of her barbarian invaders. The United Nations will prove, again, as useless, dangerous, and ineffectual as the main press wishes to portray President Bush.Â

Should Israel succeed in destroying Hezbollah, killing the last of its members, the world, and particularly that part of it known as the Middle East, will be a better place than Kofi Annan could ever imagine.Â

I stand with Israel.Â

Steven Taylor has more the weak logic of cease-fires.

UPDATE***** Captain Ed reports that Hezbollah is using innocent civilians as human shields. Brave heroes, huh lefties?

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