Outside the Spectrum

     Two Israeli soldiers "trophy pose" with a dead Palestinian.

      The United States officially vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning the Israeli assault on Gaza and Lebanon.

      Shame on our government. Shame on President Bush and that lunatic excuse for a diplomat, John Bolton. We are the shame of the United Nations Security Council and the World, today.

      Let me make this unambiguous: when you provide political cover for and protect war criminals you are complicit in war crimes. There is no plausable excuse or reasonable position to be taken in defense of a nation that is reducing another nation to ruin over the kidnapping of two men, for the love of God.

     This is hardly the first time the United States has done this, which makes it worse. This part of a long, shameful history of the United States defending the atrocities of Israel.