Sleuth, it is one thing to leave troops along the border, it is another thing to begin the march into Lebanon and then turn back. That is tantamount to surrender. These troops already had a forward momentum and the mindset that the offensive was expanding. I hope we are reading and hearing the wrong things. Maybe the troops are on hold where they are; I just don't know.
They were on the way to provide back-up to other units who may now be stranded, as well.
One thing is certain: this stop-and-start, uncertain way of waging war is shameful, dangerous and sends the wrong signal.
I wouldn't want to be an IDF general at this moment.
You can literally see the waffling take place. He's the Israeli Jimmy Carter!
RIGHT this second...Sheppy is standing there in a flak jacket and a really dumb looking helmet...and the air raid sirens are going off...
I don't think the Hezzies have gotten the message that the Israelis have surrendered.
Earlier, when his show started, I just wanted to cry....they showed the soldiers walking back toward the border from INSIDE Lebanon...and you could tell by the way they were walking that they were dejected...their shoulders where slumped.
It was so sickening..and your post just is about that...this is just NOT DONE!!!
I wonder if Olmert will care that as his young soldiers are slumping back home...the Hezzies are still launching Kaytushas...?????
Remember when this first started...and Sheppy kept talking about 2000...and how the Israelis left Lebanon "with their tails between their legs"...and how mad we all got????
Can you imagine what the soldiers feel like right now???