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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Against my better judgment, sanity, and the interests of my billable hours, I went and read the link.

Ty -- while I may agree with you about the Repub penchant for attacking and blaming and finger-pointing -- essentially, fighting their political opponents rather than fighting the country's military opponents -- I cannot agree with you on Dingell. His statement was anemic, to say the least. I confess to having skimmed over the loooooong part, but if there is something in there that identifies Hezbollah as the terrorist, the aggressor, the bastards who use Lebanese as human shields, you haven't identified it. The rest of his statement did cast Israel and Hezbollah as equally at fault, and equally bad actors.

One reason I've been so acid-filled in these Israel discussions is my concern that my brethren on the left do just this. Let us never forget who the terrorists here are.

And, let us never forget that our country suffers when people refuse to criticize members of their own party. See, e.g., Iraq.

See the bolded text above, which apparently you missed. Too used to having associates read documents for you and highlight the key parts.

I agree that Dingell was not as blunt in criticizing Hezbollah as I would be. But that's not what Hanson said.