> Dino wrote: > >So it's a question of ethics - should Israel have kicked down the door > >shooting or should it have taken a more thoughtful and consensual > >approach? > Like complain to the UN who covered up the last time Hezballah did this?
He's the part you're missing: there's not just 3 options. From your posts it appears you believe that Israel had only these courses of action: (1.) Do nothing. (2.) Complain to UN. (3.) Do what they did: completely ignore all diplomacy and start a surprise, but mild, conventional war. There's a 4th and even 5th option - both involve some combination of diplomacy and full scale invasion. That's what I'm advocating. As I've said numerous times: line up your allies, divide your enemies, and invade with overwhelming force. Nothing else will work. Period. Let's look at Lebanon to see why ... Lebanese civilians are not prepared to be surprised bombed and have their infrastructure destroyed. Hezbollah is. An air war will not destroy Hezbollah, but rather embolden them because at the same time it's destroying some of their expendable infrastructure, their numbers growing and it's creating international scorn due to the dead civilians and new refugees. DING! That's exactly what's happening. It's not a debate anymore it's a fact. 5 weeks after Israel started bombing Hezbollah, Hezbollah shot down a helicopter and seems as strong as ever. Maybe even stronger. And Israel is being attacked in greater waves than it ever has been. So what's been accomplished? By any reasonable metric, nothing. Israel approached this hugely stupid and they're getting the same ass-kicking that the US is getting in Iraq and here's why: Swinging wildly at bees never destroyed the hive. For some reason our military, and every other western military, doesn't seem to have learned this yet. It's the 21st century; mid 20th century tactics don't work anymore. Modern war is no longer 90% destroying buildings, power plants, etc. That just impacts the civilians who then join the enemy. Modern warfare is urban warfare and that's all about intelligence and overwhelming highly trained ground forces. What is the big US military answer? Bunker Busters. So why is Bin Laden still crawling around? Because that doesn't work! You want to get rid of Hezbollah? You want to get Bin Laden? You send in 500,000 troops trained at close combat urban and cave fighting. Maybe the US should send in it's Urban Combat Battalion ... oh yeah ... we don't have one! But Al Quaeda and Hezbollah do. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:213080 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
