Damned if you do, damned if you don't...

Today while watching the coverage of the 'Crisis in the Middle East' storyline:

Whatever this giant lie is that makes it OK for any country to bomb another country, snuffing out life along the way - whatever that lie, I've reached the point of saturation. Enough already. The citizens of the nations involved in such stupidity should not have to live as apologists on behalf of their governments - but we do. There is anxiety and desperation in silence.

Aren't there laws that govern the way these things are done? And please don't quote for me the line delivered by the Israeli policrat who was given the limelight the other day on CNN as the reason for heavy warfare: "...they (Hezbollah) started it..."

The news coverage is something of a sporting event. With breaking stories coming in: air-raid sirens wailing in the background as the excited reporter envisions her big break will be providing a step-by-step narration of her shift to the bomb shelter. Cameraman left to catch the explosion on tape of course.
Exclusives include interviews with people found staring open-mouthed and teary eyed at what used to be their homes. Rightfully angry people who know it's not fair, who will only have it any easier once they realize and accept that their lives as they knew them are finished.
The only reprieve from the programming is the global weather report.

I laughed when I saw an interview with an American woman who came onscreen all in a freshly-highlighted huff that she'd had to spend $17,000 to get herself and her three daughters out of Lebanon and 'stop in Italy for a few days...and a few other places here and there...' as the massive outflow via the U.S. Consulate kept the phone lines tied.
Good for her that she had the resources to fly back to the States first class - what is she complaining about?

32 people died in an open air market in Baghdad today when a suicide bomber parked a minibus amidst the shoppers. Another 18 died in similar circumstances in North Iraq.
But that's not news anymore.

If this is where we're at - if humanity for all of the possible realities has chosen this yet again, chosen war - then can you stop the ride?
I want to get off.