[Wuli]

It may, at some time, become necessary for the IDF to announce a need for a general evaction of southern Lebanon, with 48 hours notice, followed by a week of total carpet bombing with some rented B52s.

War is war and neither Israel nor anyone who actually wants peace in the Middle East can leave Hezbolla in place anywhere in southern Lebanon.

[r9etb]

It may, at some time, become necessary for the IDF to announce a need for a general evaction of southern Lebanon, with 48 hours notice, followed by a week of total carpet bombing with some rented B52s.

One thing about which Lipscomb is correct in this article is the fact that Hezbollah has prepared for this. Note, for example, the bunker that took 23 tons of bombs without being breached.

So carpet bombing -- which is admittedly a viscerally satisfying suggestion -- is probably not going to be effective.

Lipscomb's remaining hand-wringing is utterly irrelevant at this point -- Israel is committed. What happens, happens. And FWIW, I have no doubt that the locations of the major Hezzie installations are known.

[JasonC]

It is precisely bombing that won't remotely work. See, the bad guys just get into their holes, deep, and it does nothing. There is this thing in military matters called "combined arms". It is the idea that every known threat has a counter, but the whole bag of them at once doesn't. If you hide in a hole, infantry can get right up to the hole. It takes ground ops to dig them out, or to force them to come out where bombs and artillery can hurt them. There is no such thing as a clean antiseptic pure tech victory from 10,000 feet.