Condi heads to the Middle East (Israel) on Sunday to help outline a plan for "stability and lasting peace" which is funny, really, because she's not meeting with any Hezbollah or Sryian leaders. How can you create a resolution for peace in the region if you only talk to one side? Oh, I forgot...this is Condi. The same woman who thinks it's OK to go on a shopping spree while people are drowning.
Ivy Leaguers Leave Lebanon First and Fast Through Private Security Firms
What? Are you really surprised that they'd get the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton students out first?
A.G. Leventhal, a Junior and Near Eastern Languages concentrator at Harvard University, was enrolled in summer classes at AUB when bombs began falling on southern Beirut. Leventhal was immediately contacted by Harvard and informed of the International SOS service, which would begin evacuation the next day.
While Leventhal and his cohorts were being bussed or flown to safety, other students were told to stay put as bombs falling nearby shook their dorm rooms.
The students left behind recall their frustration and a feeling of isolation. One student who wanted to remain anonymous for security reasons said, "It was unfair that the private, wealthy schools were afforded the luxury of a quick evacuation." Both her university and her government, she says, failed to help her out of a dangerous situation.
Army set to call up thousands of reservists; IAF planes pound Lebanon's main road link to Syria
But those thousands will be "limited". And also, there's only time to mourn the dead...not count them. Nice.
In Mideast Strife, Bush Sees a Step To Peace
Even if we and Israel have to blow away every Lebanese citizen on our way to
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