Round heels in Israel
Hezbollah has done what no Arab military has done since the creation of the Israeli state: fought the Israeli Defense Force to a virtual standstill. While the IDF has the capacity to defeat Hezbollah militarily, the Israeli government was unwilling to muster the political will to pay the price to forcefully engage Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and failed to meaningfully engage Hezbollah deeper inside Lebanon. Hezbollah strongholds in southern Beirut and in the Bekaa Valley were attacked by air with limited success. With the exception of the daring commando raid in Baalbek, these Hezbollah base were immune to the attention of IDF ground forces.
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The Israelis fought in a coma. The capacity to win was there but no one seemed to think winning was a desirable goal.
If Israel had hit the Bekaa Valley to the north early on she would have emerged a real winner. Now, at best, she looks weak. At worst, a pushover.
This is not actually true. But actually does not count in the strange, childlike, political world of the radical Muslims.
Isreal needed a win, she got, at best, a draw. Which is to say she lost.
Pity.
Written by jay on August 16th, 2006 with
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