1 Maybe its a dud - maybe the BBC crew should give the kid a hammer to find out.

Rusty - on a different note - the BBC, the Euro MSM, and much of the European opposition to our actions IS NOT because they are pro-palestinian, pro-arab, pro-muslim etc - if fact, they hate these people, hold them in contempt, and once ruled them as colonial subjects ....

Their opposition is based solely on latent (and growing again) anti-Americanism.

Alliances are not permanent! They serve agreed upon purposes and shift with the winds of time!

In our history, we have fought numerous and often costly battles and wars with Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Spain - add to that list their "allies of the moment" Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Croatia, Albania - add to that list the fervent volunteers to the Nazi SS foreign divisions from the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden etc.

Oddly enough - we have never had a beef or bad blood with Poland, had a damn good relationship historically with Serbia (until recently), and oddest of all - never really had a personal throw down with the Russians.

We should take all this into consideration - and conduct our foreign policies and alliances with a weather vane - and not on myths.

2 I am surprised the BBC vultures only took pictures as they gathered around the scene. I would have expected a circle-jerk from the BBC.

3 You've missed the real point here. I just saw the BBC article posted by James Taranto of WSJ "Best of the Web". This is what I've written to him:

That ain’t no 1000lb bomb. I don’t know about the alleged “tailfins” on the roof – but it sure looks like an artillery shell and not a bomb. Difference is that only the IDF can drop a bomb, but if it’s not a bomb, indeed it could be a Hezbollah shell. Pls don’t take my word for it on the artillery shell vs bomb and the missing tailfins, but rather ask someone else who is an expert on that issue. I am very certain on the 1000lb part. It simply is not big enough.

Back to the bomb issue. I simply am not aware of any bomb that has a flat bottom like that one. Bombs are streamlined and aerodynamic. Artillery shells have flat bottoms…

And furthermore…

Now this shell vs bomb issue is quite important. Even your post uses the terms interchangeably. Bomb = IDF almost without dispute. Shell = inconclusive. An artillery shell could be carried into the room for a staged shot. We don’t after all get to see the Wily Coyote profile in the roof… The BBC well knows the difference between a bomb and a shell even if “Best of the Web Today” does not. They are using the terms interchangeably because they know it IS NOT a bomb, but can hide behind the ambiguity. This is deliberately confusing to the militarily ignorant who like “Best of the…” wouldn’t know the difference, but sense correctly that a bomb is what a plane drops. The phrase “The shell is huge, bigger than the young boy…” is just laughable. Clearly the boy is very very small – another tipoff that this is not a 1000lb bomb.

But don’t take my word for it. Let LGF (or Jawa) sort it out!