Yes, I know: as Lord of War kept pointing out, the top five arms dealers in the world all have permanent seats on the UN Security Council. And I don’t mind selling arms to the Lebanese government, assuming that they don’t end up firing them off at Israel and/or Turkey. I don’t even mind doing so as part of, as Andrew Malcolm rather sardonically notes, a rather heavy-handed hint that it might be best if the freely-expressed electoral will of the Lebanese people freely expresses itself as not liking Hezbollah quite so much this time around.  But…

Did you have to send Biden, Mr. President?  I mean, there were high explosives around; don’t you think that was a little, you know, unsafe?

Moe Lane

PS: Caption contest.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.