In the on-going war between the nation of Israel and the Hezbollah terrorists in south Lebanon, there have been the inevitable civilian casualties, for which Israeli Prime Minister Olmert has expressed regrets, and for which Israel has received almost universal condemnation, with many saying that Israel has used "disproportionate response" to the rocket attacks inflicted upon them by Hezbollah. Let's not forget that all of the rockets fired by Hezbollah so far have been aimed at civilian targets (not a single IDF military installation has had a single rocket fired against it), and that Hezbollah hides behind civilians, using them as human shields.
So are the actions taken by Israel to defend its' territory and civilian population by terrorists a "disproportionate response"? No, they are not, and Charles Krauthammer explains why not, and why this way of thinking is from a totally different moral universe.
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