Fog Of War?

Every time I give people the benefit of the doubt and assume that they will catch up with reality when things calm down, I see something that makes me think it isn’t the “fog of war”, it’s the steaming mist hovering over another pile of bovine excrement.

The Israelis apparently decided to send the deputy chief of staff to the north because they were planning this: Israel approves deeper offensive.

So far the “moles” are winning in this obscene version of “whack-a-mole” that the IDF is playing along the Lebanese border. With all of their firepower they can’t really control the villages just over the border. At this point the villages are nothing more than piles of rubble, but the “moles” keep popping up and destroying armored vehicles.

If the Israelis push in with a huge force, the “moles” will stay underground, pop up when the army has passed to re-supply from the Israeli trucks, and strand the army against the Litani River.

The Israeli right apparently read A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm and thought it would work. They are taking their lead from the same people that pushed the US into Iraq.

I didn’t want to believe it until I heard Tzachi Hanegbi, chairman of the Knesset’s Security and Foreign Affairs Committee, complaining in a BBC interview that Olmert should have done this immediately after the first Hezbollah rocket hit Haifa and the IDF would have been at the Litani River in two days.

I don’t think he really appreciated what was happening, as he was on his annual Florida vacation with his wife’s family for a major part of the war.

Taking vacations during wars and believing in policy recommendations of Douglas Feith and Richard Perle…hmm, definitely delusional.