Qana, Morality, and War

Patrick Buchanan joins the left in crying out for the US to take responsibility for Israel and Qana:

And because America provides Israel with the bombs it uses on Lebanon, we refused to restrain the Israelis, and we opposed every effort for a cease-fire before Sunday, America shares full moral and political responsibility for the massacre at Qana.

He also joins the opposition in claiming

Israel launched an air war on an innocent people.

However, he illustrates himself that this is not actually the case:

87 percent of Lebanese back Hezbollah, and the entire Arab and Islamic world, Shia and Sunni alike, is rallying behind Nasrallah.

So let me get this straight -- a full EIGHTY SEVEN percent of the people of a country back an organization whose stated goal is the utter annihilation of a country and a people -- but they're innocent. 87% of the people in a country are supporting terrorists who kidnapped soldiers and continue to refuse to release them -- but they're innocent.

I don't condemn all Arabs as terrorists -- but would Mr. Buchanan support the federal government taking any action against a state if 87% of the people of a state decided to secede from the union; declared war on the United States; and started launching bombs into neighboring states? Or would he claim that the people of the state were innocent?

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