Posted on 07/20/2006 3:47:04 PM PDT by SmithL
I was mistaken.
Two weeks ago, I wrote here that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah hates Israel but behaves responsibly, and that since he took control of south Lebanon, a stable balance of deterrence has been created on both sides of the border. "His behavior is rational and reasonably predictable. Under the present conditions, that's the best there is. Hezbollah is preserving quiet in the Galilee better than did the pro-Israeli South Lebanese Army," I wrote. But Nasrallah hastened to prove that his behavior is not predictable, when he gave instructions to attack an Israel Defense Forces patrol near Moshav Zarit and kill and kidnap its soldiers.
The mistake in my assessment stemmed, as always, from the idee fixe that what was is what will be. I believed that if Israel and Hezbollah had learned to live according to the "rules of the game" that had developed along their common border, they would be interested in maintaining the balance of power rather than violating it. The IDF, the intelligence services and the government, who have at at their disposal much better sources of information than mine, thought the same. Fact: They lowered the alert level in the north a few days before the attack in Zarit; that means that they expected quiet. But although I was in good company, the responsibility for the mistake is entirely mine.
But Nasrallah made a bigger mistake, and his mistakes are lethal. Not only because he had the same idee fixe and expected Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to behave like his predecessors, Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon - in other words, to tolerate the incident in order avoid a second front in the north.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
After admitting he had poor judgement and completely misassessed the situation, he tells us with confidence what the best course of action is.
Who is going to listen to him now?
When liberals make mistakes a lot of people die.
"I'm an Idiot, and Idiots Believe Idiotic Things"
It seems without fail liberals do not understand human nature.
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em, Down Hezbullies.)
The only mistake that Nasrallah thinks he makes is when not enough Jews are killed.
I suggest you read the Koran and Hadiths. You dumb Infidel. - tom
Howard Dean
When is the American Left going to admit it has misread this little thing we like to call the "WAR ON TERROR"?
When is the American Left going to admit it has misread this little thing we like to call the "WAR ON TERROR"?
It seems without fail liberals do not understand human nature.
I just want to quibble here a little bit.
It is not precisely human nature that liberals do not understand in this instance (altho it is true, liberals have a very incomplete understanding of human nature).
It is ISLAM and the worship of mohammed that liberals and a lot of other folks, including folks in this site, do not understand.
There is no compromise in islam, no discussion, no reasoning, no meeting of the minds. Those are at best tactics, used to gain ground in obliterating all infidels.
islam is a barabaric, evil, criminal mentality. It is cunning, yes, but it is also primitive and appeals to the worst of human nature.
Until the West begins to see the worship of mohammed for what it is, we are asking for the death and destruction islam fully intends to give us.
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