Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Sad News But...

Very sad to hear about the deaths of nine Israeli soldiers. Go with god fellows.
One point, that escapes me. The headline reads "Israel Suffers Heavy Casualties" and then goes on to describe the deaths of the nine soldiers. My problem here is with the term heavy.

Maj. Zvika Golan, a spokesman for the Israeli army's Northern Command, said fighting in the last few days has killed about 200 Hezbollah fighters. "The village is absolutely not under control. . . . We walked into a wasps' nest and we knew it would be wasps' nest."

By my count, that's 22-1. If those nine Israeli soldiers were from my religion, they'd have 22 servants, each, in Valhala. I'm just curious why the headline wasn't "Hezbollah Suffers Heavy Casualties?"

1 comment:

geekwife said...

Because those brown-skinned terrorist types are SCARY. And if we know what's good for us, we'll just give up and stop trying to fight them NOW. So they won't inflict heavy casualties on US.

That, and because journalists are morons.