Ceasefires, terror plots, fearmongers. Fuck it, I'm outta here

Ceasefire seems to be working. Touching to see both sides intensifying the fight yesterday, just to get that little extra bit of killing in before the deadline. Well, another twenty years of chaos in Lebanon I suppose. Hezbollah may have agreed with the plan but how long before they start to regard the "security zone" as protecting Israel rather than being neutral? Armies tend to come to grief in Lebanon. The last multi-national force there was suicide bombed out of the country. I am not terribly optimistic.

Our airline terror plot is looking increasingly shaky. It now appears that Mi5 wanted to keep the group under surveillance for a bit longer, but instead made the arrests early under pressure from the US. Elections coming up in November, remember. Hey that rhymes. The US government also knew a week in advance that the arrests were going to be made and took the opportunity to make a series of slurs accusing their opponents of being soft on national security. I am inclined to believe that there was a threat this time, but its the blatant use of terrorism for political gain that makes people so skeptical.

George "Russia is big" Bush took the opportunity to suggest that America is at war with Islamic fascists. Maybe so. You know what they say - fight fire with fire.

As for me, I've had enough. I'm disengaging from the world for a while because its making me ill. As far as I'm concerned the world can go fuck itself. Maybe I'll write that unicorn song I was talking about.