Maybe reality has knocked some sense into the little guy

HAIFA, Israel, July 23 (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy had to take cover under a stairway in Israel's northern city of Haifa on Sunday when sirens warning of a Hizbollah rocket attack sounded.

A French embassy spokeswoman said Douste-Blazy was in a convoy of vehicles about to leave the northern city when the sirens went off.

With his usual élan, he seems to be beginning to face up to the repugnance of the action Hizballah’s militia. The state’s official tip-toeing around the immoral nature of this rogue guerrilla gang is a misguided attempt to maintain a DMZ around the suburban ghettos and the fragile delusions of the 68’ers. Since it hasn't yielded much, it may have finally sunk in that it was a crappy idea to begin with. All it does is tacitly affirm their dearly held chickendove twitching coupled with popular chickenhawk-like dreams of revolution.

Appeasment for the popularity of chic fist-pumping aside, the Douste-ster mananged to swing this much without embarassing himself:

"We believe the spiral of violence will not lead to anything durable. Only political dialogue can lead to a durable solution," Douste-Blazy said.

He also called for the implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1559 which demands the disarmament of militias in Lebanon and the deployment of the Lebanese army along the border with Israel, which has been under the control of Hizbullah.

If they had only thought of that earlier, like, before Hizballah started all of this, and after the U.N. passed 1559 in February of 2004.