I disagree. It's been painfully obvious that Olmert didn't have the guts to wage this war. Bush gave him cover for a month. Olmert did nothing with it.
While Olmert may be relieved this is over, I'd bet Bush is not. But, it is Israel's war, not ours.
exactly right.
what's is israel thinking here - they someday, the US will take out iran, and that will de-facto solve the hezbollah problem for them?
we tried to use israel here as our proxy, to take down an iranian proxy, to take that chess piece off the table. did we achieve that?
Support for Israel would have been to continue to veto any UN resolution that didn't involve destroying Hezbollah in its entirety. Instead, the US agreed with France to a deal that is entirely unacceptable and hypocritical.
I don't doubt that Olmert is mostly to blame for the delay in the ground invasion, but that doesn't mean our government did its job either.
Oh, and as for "it is Israel's war, not ours", tell that to the hundreds of marines and other Americans killed at the hands of Hezbollah.
You are SO right. Yoni the Blogger agrees with you too.