A new cretin of the week, ladies and gents:

Robert Fisk.

This is a ridiculous man with a penchant for fallacy. Currently stationed in Lebanon in the heat of the Israeli bombings, this man is whining about how Israel is destroying a "beautiful city."

In my honest opinion, no city can be beautiful if its government is corrupt as Lebanon. By allowing Hezbollah to continue its terrorist dealings in its country, Lebanon is definately smashing any sense of decency.

Granted, its a sad thing that a population of innocent people has to take the brunt of the retaliation, but diplomacy and talks apparently have failed. Besides, why is Hezbollah allowed to kill pretty much whoever they want in the name of political agenda? Why shouldn't Israel defend herself?

Oh, by the way, point at laugh at the DailyKos for a bit. This is the sort of writing that makes me laugh out loud hard enough for people nearby to be concerned.

Hezbollah is attacking Israel, and Israel's punching back.

Ok that's enough of my opinion, back to my flaming of Fisk. Today, in the Seattle Times, an editorial was published written by Robert Fisk that was so ridden with fallacies and pity-me tactics that I wanted to shoot something. Unfortunately, the whole article isn't available online. At the risk of being unprofessional I will quote a couple of parts of it. Should anyone want to question me, I will send them my copy of the article which I dug out of the recycling to get because my family threw it away. God help me should two people want it.

And then, most disgraceful of all, we leave the Lebanese to their fate like a diseased people and spend our time evacuating our precious foreigners while tut-tutting about israel's "disproportionate" response to the capture of its soldiers by Hezbollah.

I walked through the deserted city center of Beirut last week and it reminded me more than ever of a film lot, a place of dreams too beautiful to last, a phoenix from the ashes of a civil war who'se plumage was so brightly colored that it blinded its own people...

Yeah yeah yeah... somehow, I think he's exaggerating a bit. No, I have not been to Beruit but I don't think the city blinded its own people. At the risk of sounding dense, this guy is definately trumping up and throwing in every bit of empathetic detail he can.

Cue the violins.

(PS: Ok, every bit of high school english has told me that run-ons are bad, and let me tell you those paragraphs are each one sentence. His writing makes my head hurt, seriously.)