Posted on 08/11/2006 2:21:01 PM PDT by HAL9000
When will Nasrallah announce his acceptance?
Suggest you take a deep breath and get some reality. I am very tired of this relativist thinking such as this is a victory for Hez. That is just delusional spin. Israel will disarm Hez. The UN/Leb troop;s will come in on their heels and are charged with keeping Lebanon sovereign.
I suspected from the start Olmert and the cabinet were never interested in destroying Hez by invading Southern Lebanon. They have too many bad memories from 82-2000 occupation. They turned down plans for a vigorous air/sea mobile operation the IDF had planned for a couple years for just an air campaign and minor attacks to force/compel the UN to send in a force to take over Southern Lebanon.
I don't see Hez disarming. What they might end up doing is force the government to create a shiite/Hez force that is separate from the existing army and being under the operational control of Nasrellah.
IIRC it's a standing rule for UN Member States not to attack other Member States, or other States Members, or something along those lines.
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Israel has not disarmed Hezbollah, and after Sunday it will not be allowed to.
Anything less than the complete destruction of Hezbollah in Lebanon will be viewed in the Arab world as a complete victory. Watch and see.
The rockets will still fly, and the UN force will march around, knocking each other over like Keystone Kops, and accomplish nothing. This is an old, failed solution in new pretty packaging. A turd is a still a turd no matter how much you polish it.
The Israeli soldiers dead in this fight will have died in vain. The ground made Hezbo-free will have to be paid for once again in Israeli blood.
That is the reality. And I've been a student of the events in this part of the world since 1967.
Well, THAT is an act of war that holds the Lebanese government accountable.
Only the Israelis themselves can keep the Israeli forces from disarming Hezbollah on their way out of Lebanon. We'll see whether they keep getting in their own way.
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