I didn't see it so much out of frustration, but really just an unimaginative frontal assault on a well entrenched enemy. What I cannot understand is why they wouldn't do an airborne or seaborne assault to hit the Hezzie's rear and draw them out of those fortifications. Maybe now we could see some more imagination in the IDF's actions...a Patton-like strike through the center of the line and an encircling movement?
Do they have any ordnance of significance that they haven't yet used that could make their "charge" more likely to succeed? I'm thinking MOAB...
I like the way you think. Frontal firepower does not win battles, strategy and imagination does.
This argument is old, and wrong. What you have been witnessing is called Gunboat Diplomacy. What Israel has done is cause Hezbollah to reveal their troop movements in anticipation of a ground offensive. A satellite with a big-ass camera is a wonderful thing. Combine that with the call for Cluster munitions, and what you have is a bunch of terrorists about to become swiss cheese. Israel isn't asking for Cluster bombs, they are asking for REPLACEMENT Cluster bombs for the ones that they are about to use. It was a head fake everyone, just to see which way the terrorists would flinch. Israel is about to chew them up. Remember who told you first.