The Anchoress

Two must-read pieces, one from a conservative, and one surprising and welcome piece from a liberal.

Krauthammer, Conservative

What other country, when attacked in an unprovoked aggression across a recognized international frontier, is then put on a countdown clock by the world and given a limited time window in which to fight back, regardless of whether it has restored its own security?

Hearing the world pass judgment on the Israel-Hezbollah war as it unfolds is to live in an Orwellian moral universe. With a few significant exceptions (the leadership of the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada and a very few others), the world - governments, the media, UN bureaucrats - has completely lost its moral bearings.

Beinart, Liberal

The Democratic Party’s single biggest foreign policy liability is not that Americans think Democrats are soft. It is that Americans think Democrats stand for nothing, that they have no principles beyond political expedience. And given the party’s behavior over the past several months, it is not hard to understand why.

Oh, btw, CNN reveals how Hezbollah stages stuff. Good for them, I say. It is good that they are doing this, since just last week they were giving Hezbollah editorial control over their content.