THANK YOU! I have felt so, SO discouraged ..worried..and MAD. I needed some perspective.
Still baffled..but 24 hour coverage isn't necessarily a good thing - it all takes time to unfold..and changes on the ground are why the military always has a gazillion "contingency" plans.
Adjust. Adapt.
once again:
Northern Command officer: IDF controls sec. strip
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Senior Northern Command officer Brig.-Gen. Alon Friedman said on Thursday that the IDF controlled the entire area between Rosh Hanikra and Ras Baide in the area that once constituted the security strip when Israel occupied southern Lebanon until 2000.
He told Israel Radio, that IDF troops enter the towns, which are mostly abandoned, to strike Hizbullah operatives, before leaving the towns again.
Brig.-Gen. Friedman asserted that there were hardly any rockets launched from areas under Israeli control, except an occasional sporadic launch. He stated that the rockets fired on Thursday were launched from sites north of the Litani River.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525850797&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Sounds like the IDF is doing good, if you ask me...
Remember a couple of nights ago, when a routine Israeli deployment became "a fullscale invasion of Lebanon" when Shep described it? Well, this is the imaginary retreat that matches the imaginary invasion.
Also, Israel only allows what THEY want aired. There has to be a lot of stuff going on that we don't know about.
In the old days (WWII) all of the back and forth, feints, withdrawals and advances, etc. were only described and reported well after the fact, when the armies had moved on to further objectives. We didn't have minute by minute broadcasts of D-Day; if we had, there would have been an uproar in the US.
The cable channels are all about trying to get us invested in watching. To that end, they make this like a giant ball game. It is easy to get sucked into that mind set, and it is simply not a good way to deal with war.