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What you can't seem to admit is this:

Israel is an unreliable ally that has a government that will not defend itself because of feckless leadership.

You have been peddling the line for two years that it's our fault, despite the findings of the Winograd Commission.

It is not our responsibility to have the Israelis grow a pair; it's the responsibility of the Israeli electorate and, what's more, it's rather corrupted political class, which can't appear to defend the country.

I find this story eminently believable. It's passing strange that the IDF did nothing while Hezb'Allah was calling up reserves, road-marching them north, and then sending them into an attack. Now, Hezb'Allah's rear is secure, their missiles protected, and Iran's flanking of Israel to the north secure.

The only salutary development was their setback in the Chouf, but that was simply a case of Nasrallah overreaching after a heady victory. Hezb'Allah, and their Iranian patrons, are firmly in control of the situation. The only force that could have done anything to stop them, the IDF, was obviously paralyzed by indecisive political leadership.

Naturally, the usual suspects showed up to defend the indefensible.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

Your contempt for Israel as a an unreliable ally is noted, as is your dislike of me and other posters on FR, the usual suspects, who I suspect are other pro-Israel posters. Suspects of what, you didn’t make clear.

Your refusal to address either my post or the actual article is typical of disruptive posters with little or nothing to contribute to the topic at hand.

Debka contends that on May 11, days before the 60th anniversary celebration, with dozens of heads of state and high ranking diplomats in country, ten’s of thousands of tourists, the IDF should put on the steel, with no preparation, and mount a ground invasion of Lebanon driving all the way to Beirut.

That is absurd. If Condi advocated that, and I don’t believe she did, she should be fired. Anyone who seriously advocated an invasion of Lebanon last week should be fired. With no immediate provocation, it would be a recipe for disaster.

As to the second point, that the President of the United States would travel to the combat zone as the missiles rained down, to attend a celebration everyone else would be fleeing is absurd. And irresponsible.

I don’t think you believe any of this, it’s just a handy opportunity to paint Israel as unreliable for not acceding to a purported American request.