Just watch the video.  Trust me.

Via always-fabulous BoingBoing.

Came across this somewhat obsolete sponsored ad near the bottom of a Yahoo News photo page, during a search under the word "Beirut":

Worst.  Ad.  Placement.  Ever.  And just so goddam sad.

I was actually searching (unsuccessfully so far) for the original source of this chilling photo, published here by the conservative Oslo tabloid Aftenposten, comparing satellite shots of Beirut before and after the bombing:

Dozens of Israeli civilians.  Hundreds of Lebanese civilians.  (This might seem inequitable, but then our UN Ambassador has explicitly stated that the Lebanese deaths don’t count the same way.)  Probably the greatest recruiting tool Hezbollah ever had.  No end in sight.  Iraq falling into chaos.  And our leaders refusing to acknowledge even obvious realities.

I wish I had something wise to say, or even something even mildly cheerful, but I don’t.

UPDATE: turns out the source of the aerial comparison seems to be an obscure little paper called the New York Times.  Well, duh.

Declassified Pentagon documents confirm widespread atrocities by U.S. troops in Vietnam, confirmed by investigators but largely unprosecuted:

Words now fail.

From Tom Toles:

Hat tip to roughly a dozen readers.

Takes the pro-Armageddon side.