[Tolik]

Ralph Peters:

...Politicians and generals everywhere, repeat after me: "Air power alone can't win wars; you can't defeat terror on the cheap with technology; and (in the timeless words of Nathan Bedford Forrest) War means fighting, and fighting means killing."  

...You can't win if you won't fight

...All this is heartbreaking. I wish it were otherwise. I wish I could back up our president's surreal claim that Israel won. I wish Israel had won. I wish it had the leadership the Israeli people deserve.

And that's what's tragic: Israel's politicians turned out to be even more profoundly out of touch with their people than the pols in Washington. Israelis were willing to fight. They wanted to win. The rank and file of the IDF would have done what needed to be done. And their leaders failed them.

There will be consequences. Iran's convinced it's on a winning course. Syria got away with murder (literally). And Hezbollah will come back more determined than ever.

Oh, I almost forgot those two IDF soldiers whose kidnapping triggered all this. But I can be forgiven, since Israel's leaders forgot about them long before I did: The U.N. resolution Olmert welcomed makes no binding and immediate demand for their return.

And the world is going to let Iran build nuclear weapons.

Get ready for Round Two

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[.cnI redruM]

>>>>And the world is going to let Iran build nuclear weapons.

Not that Chirac or John Kerry would do anything to stop them if they used said weapons...

[tobyhill]

To win against these terrorist requires fighting a lot dirtier than they fight. What happened to the good old fashion assassin teams that could make a hit of a top terrorist leader and send their whole organization in disarray?

[Rummyfan]

And the world is going to let Iran build nuclear weapons.

Ummm..... that would be very bad.

[Valin]

ISRAEL'S rep for toughness in tatters. Hezbollah trium phant. Iran cockier than ever. Syria untouched. Lebanon's government crippled. An orgy of anti-Semitism in the global media. Anti-Americanism exploding among Iraqi Shi'as inspired by Hezbollah.

Today. Tomorrow?
My point is this is a long war, and there are going to be wins and losses. We won one when the airline plot was uncovered, we lost one with this "cease fire". And Israel WILL be back.

[Paul Ross]

There were a lot more points that he nailed, such as this:

Want more good news? After finally calling our enemies by the accurate name of "Islamo-fascists," President Bush backtracked so fast the White House lawn was smoking. Then he declared that Israel had won. That's about as credible as insisting the Titanic docked safe and sound.