looks like a target to me

Today's New York Times carries on its front page a disturbing story about Hezbollah, the "party of God" and their annual "Jerusalem Day" parade/hatefest/march.

It would be easy to dismiss these young men as harmless fanatics; classic Arab dreamers who are demonstrating because that is all they are capable of doing. Especially when there is rhetoric such as these gems from one of their bloviators, one chicSheik Hassan Nasrallah:

We face a plan by the United States and the Zionists to control the region, to redraw the political map of the region!

and this:

We should realize the extent of the dangerous and satanic goals these people have

Would that we and Israel had "satanic goals". We are both, sigh, just Western democracies who would not do the obvious and smart thing: drop some 55-gallon drums of whupass on these mokes in the form of, oh, how about 55-gallon drums of napalm? 2,000 pound bombs, at the least.

Seriously, can you just imagine the international hue and cry if Israel, say, did a few strafing runs on this lovely street scene? Hezbollah may fairly be described as the most focused threat that Israel and the United States face today. Of course, the Times, in its now-normal moral equivalence mode, makes this excuse for these terrorists:

Indeed, Hezbollah's incessant oratory about destroying Israel reflects more psychological warfare than the reality along Lebanon's southern border. Only periodic, carefully scripted attacks have occurred since Israel withdrew its military from southern Lebanon in May 2000 after 22 years there.

So, apparently, "scripted attacks" are acceptable? Don't think so. And, of course, Hezbollah also makes the trains run on time (the classic appeaser's statement):

In Lebanon, Hezbollah has two faces: public and intensely private. On one hand it maintains important public institutions — 12 members of Parliament, television and radio stations, a construction agency, agriculture outreach program, medical services and numerous charities.

And sure now, doesn't that warm the cockles of your heart? The party of death and destruction in the name of God may, in fact, do all of these good things. But they are in service of evil. A lesson, not just in Lebanon with Hezbollah, but here in the United States with Islamic "charities" that routinely funnel monies to fund...drum roll please...terror.