I wish that diplomatic niceties allowed President Bush to make such a statement publicly, rather than confining it to a private conversation.

President Bush cursed Hezbollah's attacks against Israel in private conversations with foreign leaders Monday that were picked up by a microphone.

Bush expressed his frustration with the United Nations and his disgust with the militant Islamic group and its backers in Syria as he talked to British Prime Minister Tony Blair during the closing lunch at the Group of Eight summit.

"See the irony is that what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this (expletive) and it's over," Bush told Blair as he chewed on a buttered roll.

He told Blair he felt like telling U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who visited the gathered leaders "to get on the phone with (Syrian President Bashar) Assad, make something happen."

That will not, of course happen. Diplomacy is a formal dance with specific rules of etiquette. And the UN, rife with anti-Semitism for many years, will keep on trying to condemn Israel rather than the terrorists who have triggered the crisis in the Middle East.

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