Deja Vu All Over Again
May 2nd 2007 23:26
There actually was some news this morning beyond the demonstrators demanding that immigration laws shouldn't apply to people entering the country. Israel's government issued a report on the debacle war between Israel and Lebanon last year.
In short: The war was a bad idea, poorly planned out and failed to reach the unobtainable goals. This is a very generous understatement: While the Israeli army tried to bomb Hezbollah out of Lebanon, the result of the war was that Hezbollah came out more respected and stronger than they were a year ago.
This is often the case with unwise and poorly-planned wars. Just because you bomb the living shit out of a country doesn't guarantee that the "collateral damage" will blame the folks you meant to bomb.
At least Israel stopped short of completely destroying the Lebanese government and armed forces. History (you know, that thing our so-called "leaders" tend to fail to learn anything from) has shown that when you do that, then all kinds of unsavory elements can creep in.
Still, Israel did enough damage to make Hezbollah a major political power in Lebanon for years to come. Sometimes it's comforting to realize that our own country doesn't have a monopoly on ass-backwards leadership.
In short: The war was a bad idea, poorly planned out and failed to reach the unobtainable goals. This is a very generous understatement: While the Israeli army tried to bomb Hezbollah out of Lebanon, the result of the war was that Hezbollah came out more respected and stronger than they were a year ago.
This is often the case with unwise and poorly-planned wars. Just because you bomb the living shit out of a country doesn't guarantee that the "collateral damage" will blame the folks you meant to bomb.
At least Israel stopped short of completely destroying the Lebanese government and armed forces. History (you know, that thing our so-called "leaders" tend to fail to learn anything from) has shown that when you do that, then all kinds of unsavory elements can creep in.
Still, Israel did enough damage to make Hezbollah a major political power in Lebanon for years to come. Sometimes it's comforting to realize that our own country doesn't have a monopoly on ass-backwards leadership.
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