I was recently asked why I haven't been updating my blog. The simplest answer to that is usually the one I have often used with my friends when they ask me why I haven't done a certain something, something. I'm a lazy ass. Seriously, that's my answer to them. Okay, my actual words are 'Procrastination, thy name is me'.

But to be truthful about this whole not updating thing, I was actually thinking of creating an entry on my thoughts on the recent world events. To be specific, the attack on Lebanon.

Now why didn't I? You see issues like these usually get me riled up. I would have gone on a very long rant which I may or may not agree with later on when I have had time to cool my heels and had tried to see the whole issue from all sides. Also, considering that the current U.S. government has no qualms about stepping on the privacy rights of individuals and have been caught doing a lot of dubious things, I have become a disciple of the Lone Rangers and have begun to think that I may just be flagged by some U.S. agency as some sort of terrorist threat. But right now I'm thinking, 'Screw it. Go ahead and flag me you bastards!' Besides, I've already cooled my heels on this issue, so I will no longer be belligerent about it.

So why does this particular event concern me?

My country also has a terrorist group. Actually we have several. These groups have been involved in bombings, squirmishes with the army and have been kidnapping people, several of them were foreigners. Given the ongoing state of corruption in our government, the terrorist problem here is far from being resolved any time soon.

As you can see, the country I live is similar to Lebanon. The groups here may not be as influential in the general populace as Hezbollah appears to be in Lebanon but they are more or less the same. So you can see why I would be upset with Israel's actions. This event could have easily been done to us and I may be without a home, family or a pulse right now.

Now this whole fiasco happened at the cost of hundreds of civilian lives. My first thought about that is that there is no excuse for killing civilians but then I realize that given the history of my country, there is an event that cost hundreds of civilian lives that I do accept, purely because this stopped the killing of my countrymen. But I digress.

So I get why Israel did it. Israel is sick and tired of being attacked by its neighbors. They have been attacked one time too many and the kidnapping is just the straw that broke the camel's back. It's attack or continue to be attacked for them.

The Lebanon government may not have sanctioned the attacks on Israel but could they have done something more to prevent Hezbollah from attacking Israel? Yes, they could have. However Israel should have dealt with this in a more diplomatic way. They should have negotiated with the Lebanese government and worked out an agreement on how to take care of this problem or have gone to the U.N. Just because you are being attacked by terrorists, it doesn't mean that you should become terrorists yourselves.

Both sides have contributed to this melee. Lebanon's sin is for being passive while Israel's sin is for being aggressive. Whatever my opinion is on them, it doesn't change the fact that both parties are losers in this one. The Lebanese people have lost their homes and loved ones. The people of Israel, on the other hand, are now in more danger because the Israel government just single-handedly gave Hezbollah the PR they need to recruit more people to their cause.