At the same time the Israeli army was simply not prepared for that sort of confrontation. After years of the Intifata, the Israelis were more of police force than an army in one sense. I was listening to one account of an assault on a Hezbollah controlled town. The fighters were using Iranian supplied ATGM's with a range of over a 2km's. The assaulting Israeli infantry had nothing with a comparable range, and so were hurt fairly badly without being able to respond effectively. Moreover the Israelis were attacking hardened prepared positions, which is always more expensive that most meeting engagements. Not a good situation to be in to say the least.
> >My theory has been that that's what the Hezbollah/Israeli >confrontation was all about. It was orchestrated by Iran to send a >message to the US and its allies (esp Israel and the UK) to say: > >Check it out - we can do this anywhere, anytime, and in multiple >places at once. We can bury you with mini-skirmishes that will be PR >disasters no matter how you try to deal with them. You are >over-allocated already: push us and you'll get buried. > >Should we push Iran, they will win in my opinion. They'll take >control of our energy supply and we won't be able to do anything to >recover except nuke the entire are and just about every Muslim. > >Due to Iraq, we screwed ourselves. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:224840 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
