7.31.2006

Summer reruns

Our story so far - Israel is attacked by Hezbollah rockets and their soldiers are kidnapped. All intelligence indicates that Hezbollah are backed by Iran, so Israel retaliates by attacking Lebanese civilians. The Israelis then claim that they're not interested in a lengthy occupation. This episode seems really familiar. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this page remembers seeing the U.S. attacked by Al-Qaida agents, most of whom were from Saudi Arabia, and America retaliated by hitting Afghanistan and Iraq. And weren't the Americans going to hand control back to the locals really soon? It's either the same show, or just the same plot with a few different characters.

Another episode I saw had Ontario Conservative MP Garth Turner stating that after evacuating thousands of Canadian citizens from Lebanon, Ottawa should take a serious look at redefining and categorizing citizenship rights. The ratings for Turner's musings were substantial, gathering more attention than "The One: Making of a Music Star". This page is pretty sure that this particular story may have been aired a long time ago, but we definitely saw this one before too.

1 comment:

arto said...

To be entirely fair, I think more people watched "1001 Uses for Cubic Zirconium" on the Compulsive Shopping Network than "The One: No, Not the Babylon-5 One or the Matrix One, Just Some Lame-o American Idol Ripoff But With That One Dude, You Know, From Muchmusic Or Something". Maybe they shoulda picked a better title or something.