Missiles Neutralizing Israeli Tanks

Yahoo News ^ | 8-4-2006 | Benjamin Harvey

[jschwartz]

If so, what's this BS I keep hearing about the US coming to an "agreement" with its enemy, France about a cease fire?

[jschwartz]

Having 120,000 guys in Iraq, standing around getting shot at, at staggering cost, for 3 useless years, has made an Iranian campaign politically difficult to muster. It also doesn't help when you have young men being prosecuted for Iraqi "war crimes" which were anything but. Very few recruits and rightfully so. A real commander in chief would not allow marines to get killed by snipers to avoid obliterating a Mosque (hiding place). He would not allow his best infantry to be on trial for their lives for shooting terrorists. Bush is a decent man, and I trust him, but I think he has fallen prey to some terrible advice.

[jerryem]

I think most people would go along with that, I think that someone screwed up with this war, if the Israeli's had of done as you suggest in the first week, the news, world, would have forgotten it all by now,( old news, no news ) Iran would be a place hard to find on the map as they would be trying to be as inconspicuous as possible and Lebanon, it would just be a reminder to the rest of these crackpots that you don't mess with the good guys.

[colorado tanker]

They will soon learn from us that it takes more than situational awareness from the air combined with airpower. It takes plain old boots on the ground and lots of slugging it out.

As the window closes on the time Bush & Rice can resist the pressure against giving Israel a free hand, I'm afraid you're right. Air power is a wonderful thing to have on your side, but it doesn't win ground campaigns.