Liberals' selective sensibilities

Upon Michael Ignatieff's reference on Sunday to the Israeli bombing of Qana, Lebanon, as a war crime, the co-chair of his Toronto-area campaign, Susan Kadis, resigned in a huff. Quite aside from Ignatieff's opinion being eminently reasonable, at least if we assume that killing dozens of civilians, many of them children, is a violation of international law, the sensitivity of Liberals like Kadis seems rather selective. In August, Ignatieff stated he wasn't losing any sleep over incidents like Qana, a callous observation indeed, yet it didn't have Kadis writing out her resignation. So it's a little difficult to believe she's acting out of moral outrage now. Political outrage, perhaps?