Posted on 08/14/2006 12:37:21 PM PDT by DannyTN
The Dark Side is coming. I am wondering if 911 wasn't more comparable to the Panay Incident, rather than Pearl Harbor. Bombing a Navy gunboat, deliberately, should have provoked a war, but half the US population still felt that it wasn't their Bull that got Gored. What will happen when Iran, Syria and North Korea do something really massive, like nuking Tel Aviv? Will reality slap Donks in the face? Will the Muslim Street suddenly realize they have marked themselves for obliteration? Or, will Dearborn and CAIR be dancing in the streets?
Hezbollah had many bunkers and places to fire anti-tank rockets all over the southern border. I think a ground offensive on day 1 would of been a huge blunder that would of needlessly killed many IDF soliders. The IDF was right to spend some time softening up the Hezbollah defenses with artillary and airforces first.
but right now is when the IDF should of been rolling into Southern Lebannon and pounding Hezbollah into the ground.
This cease fire happened way to soon to let Israel accomplish what needed to get done.
Next move is in the Security Council,...
I would think that the IDF and IAF did some serious damage in terms of dollar value of Hezzie destruction. And while the Hezzie image on the Arab street may have been improved, it was an expensive PR campaign.
In a strange way, this latest Israeli conflict did open the eyes of some (many?) U.S. Jews on the left. And this latest terror bust in the U.K. has also awaken some on the left that previously thought the war on terror/islamism/Iran was a a ploy of the right wingers.
My hope is that more than half the population now gets it.
This comes under the law of unintended consequences- but if it truly reduced both Hezbollah and Iran's ability to wage war, so much the better.
It takes money and time to build missiles.
Iran can always find more warm bodies for cannon fodder. Guess which are more valuable?
Wow!!! An assessment from DBKA that actually makes sense. Very positive news if anywhere near true.
Sorry! Can't type! DEBKA.
I know this is Debka, but I find this analysis to be better than anything else I have seen.
But what if this really was just "hot" exercises by Israel in preparation for serious stuff in Iraq.
Whatever the case, putting a large US force in Iraq is definitely looking like strategic genius on Bush's part. Can you imagine this same scenario with Saddam still in charge in Iraq?
Like on September 22?
>>This war was only the beginning anyway.<<
It reminds me of a quote, “This isn’t the beginning of the end, it is the end of the beginning.”
It is possible that we NEED them to exist...for now.
Good find, DannyTN. I look at it this way:
1. Israel out killed Hezbollah on the battlefield and everywhere else.
2. Israel now has an army sitting on Hezbollah turf.
3. Israel got a UN Ceasefire thingy that doesn't have very good things to say about Hezbollah.
4. The Head of Hezbollah claims victory from underneath some desk somewhere in the Iranian Embassy in Damascus.
Hey, if this is "Losing" and if I were an Israeli .... well, I guess I could live with it. :)
I call "heads".
bttt
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I don't think bombing Tel Aviv would do it. They'd have to hit the US mainland, and hit it hard. If San Francisco, Los Angeles or New York were hit and lost a third of their population, it might wake us up. I doubt anything else would.
Doesn't matter since it didn't last long: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1683643/posts
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