Not everyone is unhappy
Not everyone is disturbed by the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon. Some fundamentalist Christians see it as a sign of the approaching End Times, and better yet, of the Rapture. Some of their nearly giddy comments are collected on a blog at the link. Rapture, for those of you who haven't read the 38 volumes in the Left Behind series, is supposedly when certain Christians will be raised into Heaven without dying, sparing them from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the Anti-Christ (Hillary Clinton? Nah...). If one of the Rapturees happens to be flying a big jetliner at the time, too bad for the passengers. The reason they're so excited is because a big Mideast war, the Battle of Armageddon, precedes the Rapture. Hey, maybe that's why the Bush Administration isn't doing much of anything to stop the fighting. Here's Stephen Colbert's take on the whole mess.
The whole idea is so nutty you can't help but laugh--until you see the news of 54 Lebanese civilians, possibly 37 of them children, dying in an Israeli bombing attack. I've held off from commenting because I believe strongly in Israel's right to exist, and have no love for Arab terrorists. But this bombing will be the Guernica of this war. The fighting has to stop.