Posted on 07/31/2006 7:53:06 PM PDT by yatros from flatwater
Excellent !!!!
I hope they push hard, very hard.
I just heard on the news that it is the "rest of the world" calling for an immediate ceasefire and the US is more and more isolated..Would you care to revise your assessment..?
"I say we have a right of return for all the decedants of the Lebannse christians the muslims raped, pillaged, and murdered in Lebannon in the 1980's."
I think you are perhaps getting confused with the actions of the Phalangists in the 1980s.
Why not push them all the way to the 72 virgins.
A slightly disingenuous reply since you seem to have overlooked the event that the Damour massacre was in response too, namely the Karantina massacre.
That said two wrongs do not make a right, both these events and the later Phalangist rampages were despicable.
I'd like to see one big pig farm from the Litani to the Israeli border.
I would name it Pigostan.
"FOX just said a cease fire would go into effect on Friday. Rice said so.
Israel needs to stop before they destroy the enemy."
I believe this time the Bush State Department will not reign in Israel. We are playing good cop bad cop with Bush saying Israel has a right to self defense and is fully exercising it while Condi talks of a cease fire. In the past, we reigned in Israel and it has cost them and us by further emboldening the enemy. I think they finally get it that the only way to win a war is to defeat the enemy. Imagine that, what a new concept!
"On the first day of this they should have air assaulted to the Litani and forced Hezballah to fight on two fronts and fire rockets north to attack the Israeli positions on the Litani. Doing this on day 22 is stupid and shows just how emasculated the west is due to the Peace movement The Izzies have lost the Info Op and will fail to take the Litani by the Cease fire unless the do some amphib ops above Tyre and some helo inserts into the Bekkaa(sp)"
That's what happens when you have a non-military PM (Olmert) assigning a war to an Israeli-Air force general.
Approval by the cabinet?? This is exactly how we "fought" the Viet Nam war.
Let Allah sort it out.
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In the newsreports I don't see any IDF envelopment, or use of a blocking force to prevent their escape from these objectives. I am also mystified as to descriptions of "Pitched Battles" in which only 10 or 20 are killed.
For this to work, the IDF is going to have to stack these Hizbullah clymers like cordwood.Sending 20 Thousand of them to the Muslim Happy Hunting Ground might lessen their enthusiasm for martyrdom.
I Ping the questions.
Your observations about a more effective scenario describe what I was expecting. I feel an air of tentativemess about this operation that is disturbing.
Excellent summary. The only way this could reach a stalemate is if Syria entered the contest and U.S. did not.
Who thinks the Syrians were told that if they did enter the game, so would U.S.? They'd have to believe it knowing how much we like them killing our young men in Iraq.
Their cabinet has never had the feeble mindset that ours had (Oh, gosh, we can't bomb Hanoi too much...Chiiiina might get mad) and they do defer to the Generals.
This is the closest thing I could find on an imminent "ceasefire"...
From the Reuters/Washington Compost -- Both UNRELIABLE sources.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101182.html
Rice says cease-fire in Lebanon possible in days
Reuters Tuesday, August 1, 2006; 7:47 PM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday that a cease-fire could be reached in Lebanon within days.
"This week is entirely possible. Certainly we are talking about days not weeks," she said on the PBS Newshour.
MORE at the link..
Semper Fi
There is no ceasefire even close. Nor has there been any credible source saying there is.
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