I am going to go ahead and get worked up again, so pardon the rant -
This whole rant is based on the presumption that the rockets that killed the 5 Israelis today were fired from southern lebanon. **We are 3 weeks into this conflict and record amounts of missiles are still raining down on northern Israel, with today being the 2nd highest death total. There is more than enough firepower at Israel's disposal to tie up all Hizbullah forces, including rocket crews south of the Litani. Its one thing to fire a kaytusha knowing the launch site will be struck by the IAF within 10 minutes so you got time to boogy on out of there. Its another thing if you got a birgade of IDF forces on the ground within miles of the launch point and you know you will be hunted down after the laucnch. Where does the blame fall - on Olmert, on the IAD/IDF? I've got my theories
If the IDF were to move into southern lebanon with overwhelming force, yes, the #s of IDF casulaties would greatly increase, but that's what soldiers do, they fight and sometimes die; the alternative is Israeli civilians dying, somebody needs to man up and take the kaytushas out of the equation. The majority of their aresenal is the kaytushas, take those away and they've only got a few hundred longer range missiles to hit Israel with that can be fired north of the Litani river** rant over
10 strikes around the city in the last few minutes.
Where are you living, they have been doing this for the last 36 hours.