Hezbollah’s Iwo Jima Delusion (excellent read!)

The American Thinker ^ | 8/1/2006 | Michael Lopez-Calderon

[Berosus]

This is starting to sound like what we did in Afghanistan. Remember how our planes pounded the Taliban for five weeks, and the media started calling the war a "quagmire," acting like a bunch of kids on a trip who can't stop asking, "Are we there yet?" And then the Taliban collapsed, and the Northern Alliance started taking every major city in a matter of days. One week after Kabul fell, only Kandahar was left to the enemy, and we took that in the following month. If Israel can follow that schedule, the IDF should be in Beirut before the end of September.

[SunkenCiv]

Wholeheartedly agree! And Beirut is just a car ride away, so I hope the embedded "journalists" went to the bathroom before they roll out. :'D

[caver]

Yea, warfare is a lot different with dealing with dug in terrorists that use civilians as shields.

[wtc911]

Hey Hezzies - uh, no offense meant, but I hope that the bunker busters seal all of your worthless butts in those caves and tunnels so that there won't be ANY POWs. Hopefully, you'll spend your last days suffering unimaginable thirst and hunger waiting for a rescue that will never come.

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The US saw 100% casualties on Iwo. Is the IDF capable and willing to suffer the same?

[wtc911]

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

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Can you say South Korea?

[Enterprise]

"The US saw 100% casualties on Iwo. Is the IDF capable and willing to suffer the same?"

That is not answerable. I can make a case either way.

[Leatherneck_MT]

"Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man."
- General George Patton Jr

[Theophilus]

Can you say South Korea?

Can you say North Korea?

"In war there is no substitute for victory." -Douglas Macarthur

[wtc911]

Then can you say Stalingrad or Moscow?

Point is that Patton was wrong - there have been multiple successful defenses against attack and siege in modern times.

And if you want to know what the Korean Wat looked like in 52-53 then you should read S.L.A. Marshall's masterpiece Porkchop Hill (don't think that the movie tells the story). If we tried to take back the entire peninsula we'd still be fighting.

[wtc911]

Me: "The US saw 100% casualties on Iwo. Is the IDF capable and willing to suffer the same?"

You: That is not answerable. I can make a case either way.

me: Go ahead.

[Enterprise]

Request denied.

[wtc911]

no surprise.