LEBANON WAR: The word that obviates all thinking and magically inverts victim into aggressor is "disproportionate," as in the universally decried "disproportionate Israeli response." . . . The perversity of today's international outcry lies in the fact that there is indeed a disproportion in this war, a radical moral asymmetry between Hezbollah and Israel: Hezbollah is deliberately trying to create civilian casualties on both sides while Israel is deliberately trying to minimize civilian casualties, also on both sides. . . . Creating human shields is a war crime. It is also a Hezbollah specialty. -- Charles Krauthammer, nydailynews.com, 7/28/06