Are we sick of this yet?
Olmert, Halutz and Peretz apologize for Qana deaths | Jerusalem Post
Earlier, Olmert expressed deep regret for the harm inflicted on the civilians in Qana Sunday morning when at least 57 civilians – 37 of whom were children – were killed as the IAF fired missiles at a building in the southern Lebanese town.“I express deep regret, along with all of Israel and the IDF, for the civilian deaths in Qana,” said Olmert. “Nothing could be further from our intentions and our interests than harming civilians – everyone understands that. When we do harm civilians, the whole world recognizes that it is an exceptional case that does not characterize us.”
When does “deep regret” get recognized for what it is? It’s not REGRET at all. It stops being “regret” when it gets REPEATED over and over again, everytime, and dismissed with “that’s war”. “As deeply regrettable as all this is, that’s war”. Oh stop it already. That’s a lie. It is always known that this is the reult. EVERY TIME. Regret implies that we would never make that choice again.. This is clearly not the case. This use of the word regret is nonsense. And the world keeps buying into it. Governments don’t “regret” this at all. It’s a part of the operation that they will undertake and justify with the smae words, over and over. The church must be in lamentation for this (see a comment on Pastor John’s blog)….this is the only faithful response —other than the accompanying acts of mercy that must seek our personal sacraficial giving as an act of reprentance in our complicit participation in this of a church that cares.
(Addition, minutes later: Of course, this should have been a normality for the past three years since the start of the Iraq hostile takeover— here, however, there is “no need” for such “regret”, since the strategy here is to deny that bad things are happening to civiilans at the hands of our troops, or as a result of our occupation as various factions step up their campaigns against one another as the security situation deteriorates)
