Maybe I'm just dumb

Maybe I'm just incapable of thinking about the state of affairs inthe middle east. I mean, I don't know a lot about the history, or current escalating events that led to this, what seems to me, insanity. It is more than possible that i don't have suffient tools to understand what is happening, because of my own biases against foreign occupation, and against aggression towards neighbours, and against annonymous weapons (that is satelite weapons where the operator has no capabilty of knowing who or what he is hitting).

I was just reading this however in the Windsor star (i think it comes from the ottawa citizen however)

Blanchfield, Mike. "Harper Blames Hezbollah" Canwest News Service July 18, 2006

The G-8 summit was dominated by the Middle East crisis, ending Monday with an urgent call by British Prime Minister Tony Blair and visiting United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan for an international peacekeeping force for the region.

Chirac demanded swift action to bring about a ceasefire in the escalating hostilities that saw the death toll climb to more than 200, most in Lebanon.

Harper rejected the call, as did the United States, saying that his interpretation of the G-8's position was for Hezbollah and Hamas to first release the three Israeli soldiers they are holding and to stop shelling Israel.

Let me see what is upsetting me about this article. I think it is the second paragraph where it says that these agressions have lead to more than 200 casualties (between the two nations) and yet Harper is rejecting the call for peacekeeping (that i agree with, because the Canadian Military is no longer a peacekeeping force but an occupative agressive military, go figure) BUT he seems to think that if hamas and hezbollah release these three military pions that all this will end and the war will be over.

Isn't that beyond naive? Like anyone who would unforgivingly allow for the death of 200 humans would be completely calmed by the return of three pion soldiers who weren't clever enough not to get captured in the first place. I wouldn't be surprised if upon return they were executed for being crappy soldiers (okay im just promoting hate and bias here, ignor that last sentence). The point is...hmm i guess i feel that harper (and really the Canadian Government and Canadian people) is too guilty for current actions by Canadians around the world to do aanything constructive without first recognizing, acknolwedging and changing our current international practices and positions.

Sigh. I worry for my little (superlarge) country. i hope we make it through this, i would really like to get to be a doctor.