Grinning like Fools

What does this picture make you think? When I look at it, I think that these two leaders are a bloody joke. They are still playing the games that elites play. Smiling and shaking the hands of your enemy. All the while children are being blown up with their families, bridges and roads are being destroyed and villages razed. Makes your smiling face seem kind of ridiculous.

How much does it take for you to not smile, to refrain from offering your hand and putting your hand on your opposite's back like old friends. Perhaps these two jokers are old friends, having both worked from an oil company; perhaps PM Fouad Siniora has an oil tanker named after him as well.

I suppose that I don't expect much from the Lebanese Prime Minister. Israel, the United States, and perhaps even Hizbullah possess more power. So he has to grin and accept whatever these other parties do and say. The ultimate yes man.

Also isn't it amazing that the United States is about to offer approximately $30 million for the reconstruction of Lebanon? Had Bush stood up to Israel at the start of this debacle, or at least counseled moderation, there would have been no power plants destroyed, no roads and bridges demolished. Just the dead, who never need reconstruction. The president could have saved his beloved taxpayers $100 million.

I guess America has the best of both worlds, they sell Israel the bombs, then sell the Lebanese, much like the Iraqis, the means to reenter the modern world. Aid is rarely offered without strings.