Cheat Seeking Missiles

Posted by: Laer at 08:22 am

s you can imagine given the pro-Israel viewpoints of the Watcher’s Council - and the fact that Israel is the primary topic for one of our members - this was a week of great insight into middle eastern affairs at the Watcher of Weasel’s weekly thought bazaar. And despite the fine job Watcher did at laying out his wares, the Council ended up buying an odd piece in the back row of his little shop.

Winning among the Council entries was a piece that had nothing to do with the current war in the middle east, rather, The Razor wrote of doctors, supply and demand in ‘Physician Shortage’ and the Free Market, which the Watcher introduces saying:

Please read it as you consider that Democrats are seeking to”change” the heath care industry in the United States. Now I am all for change but the government is not the answer here, at least not in the form of socialized medicine. The Razor discusses the tremendous costs for Primary Care physicians and the limited potential for reimbursement due to various logistical and government induced reasons.

Israel/Hamas followed, first with a humorous note with Joshuapundit’s It’s Hard Out There For A ( Hamas) Pimp, which keyed off the Hamas excuse that its weapons smuggling tunnels are also used for milk, food and goats. BTW, I heard a wonk the other day note that after seeing film of the massive explosions that followed the bombing of the tunnels, he concluded that Hamas must have some highly explosive goats.

My piece on the dead Hamas leader Rayyan, Portrait of an Arse as a Dead Man, came in third.

On the non-Council side, Ron Rosenbaum’s piece, Some differences between Hamas and the Nazi Party, won handily. Its charm is that as it found comparisons between the two, Rosenbaum was always able to show that Hamas was, in fact, worse that the Nazis.

For those of you who would like to be able to explain disproportionality with the benefit of the rules and regs that supposedly govern it, I recommend the third-place piece by Michael Totten, Gaza and the Law of Armed Conflict. And if you’re up for a little dread and fear (AKA, a head’s up), give a look at the piece that tied it for third, A Warning for America from South Africa. I disagree with the piece overall, but there were still numerous points that gave me pause.

For all the wares at Watcher’s bazaar of ideas, click here. Thanks, Watcher. But 20 sheckles for this? You must be mad! Five at the most!

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