Cool Under Pressure
By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
The American Spectator
WASHINGTON -- The week brings some very dour news for the Hezbollah killers and their Iranian masters. No, it is not that the Lebanese government has ordered them to take their rocket launchers off the school grounds and out of the hospital parking lots. No, they remain free to use Lebanese as human shields while "world opinion" dizzily blames Israel for the civilian casualties.
The bad news comes from Washington. There our debonair president just had his annual physical, and his blood pressure was a mere 108/68. For a man his age a normal blood pressure is 130/90. Yes, after a weekend of counseling with his advisers on the troubles in the Middle East our Commander in Chief remained notably nonchalant, clinically nonchalant. And just before taking that blood pressure reading he announced that the world pressure on Israel to suspend hostilities in Lebanon "won't address the root causes of the problem." President George W. Bush still favored the Israeli offensive to extirpate Hezbollah from Lebanon.
The American Spectator
WASHINGTON -- The week brings some very dour news for the Hezbollah killers and their Iranian masters. No, it is not that the Lebanese government has ordered them to take their rocket launchers off the school grounds and out of the hospital parking lots. No, they remain free to use Lebanese as human shields while "world opinion" dizzily blames Israel for the civilian casualties.
The bad news comes from Washington. There our debonair president just had his annual physical, and his blood pressure was a mere 108/68. For a man his age a normal blood pressure is 130/90. Yes, after a weekend of counseling with his advisers on the troubles in the Middle East our Commander in Chief remained notably nonchalant, clinically nonchalant. And just before taking that blood pressure reading he announced that the world pressure on Israel to suspend hostilities in Lebanon "won't address the root causes of the problem." President George W. Bush still favored the Israeli offensive to extirpate Hezbollah from Lebanon.
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