It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over¹
EDB at Anecdotes from a Banana Republic celebrates the end of the first month of the conflict and the Escalatory ceasefire. Apparently not enough people were wounded or killed during the month, so there is a push to up the rate before they have to pretend there’s a peace.
Pierre also notes the Cease-Fire Fantasies of everyone not actually on the killing fields of Lebanon.
I’m still wondering how anyone can claim that Hezbollah is targeting civilians when it kills 2 Israeli military for every Israeli civilian with unguided weapons, while the Israelis are killing at least 3 Lebanese civilians for every 2 Hezbollah military with guided “smart” weapons.
There is something that the Israelis need to understand: after an extended period of terror people run out of adrenalin and can no longer sustain the feeling. They tend to divide into two camps – apathy and anger. The anger is generally directed towards those that terrorized them.
A less generalized and more targeted campaign could have been successful in driving a wedge between Hezbollah and the rest of Lebanon, but the generalized, civilian targeted campaign Israel conducted welded Hezbollah to the rest of Lebanon as the only force striking back.
1. Yogi Berra – American philosopher and sportsman.
2 comments
I’m still wondering how anyone can claim that Hezbollah is targeting civilians when it kills 2 Israeli military for every Israeli civilian with unguided weapons, while the Israelis are killing at least 3 Lebanese civilians for every 2 Hezbollah military with guided “smart” weapons.
I guess it makes sense to those that back them. The whole thing is horrible. I blame shrub.
OWL, the strengthening of Hezbollah is the worst possible outcome for peace in the Middle East. If Israel had complained to the Lebanese government over the two soldiers, that government would have been strengthened and Hezbollah would have been weakened.