Posted on 08/14/2006 9:35:37 AM PDT by epluribus_2
One can hope this is the response anticipated by W/Rice/Olhmert after Lebanon was given and blew this chance.
There is no cease fire. There was never intended to be a cease fire. The US and Israel played the diplomacy card perfectly.
Hezbollah is now isolated internationally and fair game once again. They had a few days of rest and resupply but that's now over. Go IDF!
Resupply can also be interpreted as violating the ceasefire, as far as the heZI's are concerned.
The ceasefire is a joke and every body knows it. I will give it 48 hours before all hell breaks lose.
These guys are too stupid by half. They're supposed to take advantage of the hudna to regroup, then attack. This will give Israel the cover it needs to finish the job.
>>There is no cease fire. There was never intended to be a cease fire. The US and Israel played the diplomacy card perfectly.
Hezbollah is now isolated internationally and fair game once again. They had a few days of rest and resupply but that's now over. Go IDF!<<
This is exactly how I see this. It is the way Israel has played this since they gave up Gaza and gave hamas enough rope to hang themselves.
The next two weeks will be "interesting", as in the Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times."
I can't either. Its time to bring Netanyahu back into power. He would have kicked the crap out of them. What's worse, is that the soldiers were not recovered. And not Israel is talking prisoner swap, which is what they wanted in the first place. Prisoner swaps just lead to more kidnappings.
Should be the shortest ceasefire in the history of warfare.
Why should the Hizbus surrender? What can they surrender? So long as they have their tunnels and stash of Hershey bars they can sit tight. They have nothing to lose, not even their room reservations in hell.
The IDF, Bush, Bolton and Rice knows this, and are maneuvering for the resumption of combat. The French and the UN have been finessed into a corner, checked, with two moves to checkmate. "We played by your rules, and look what happened!"
Within the next two weeks, some raghead bozo is going to launch a rocket, and the IDF will have absolutely no reason to hold back. The UN, proven toothless, may well collapse, although it won't be right away. As I recall, even the League of Nations limped on 'til after the end of WW2, finally voting itself out of existance in 1946.
>>The IDF will roll out of their forward positions with a renewed strenght and secure supply lines.<<
Heh, heh. And I believe the Hezzies supply lines are a little less, shall we say, "robust" than they were a couple of months ago.
Perhaps they're taking their lines from Charlton Heston - "from my cold dead hands!"
never thought that this might be a plan to show how useless the UN is. I have thought that way for a long time. but if it is, hopefully Israel will drop the hammer on the hezzies
Um, if the hezbos lost, why are Malkin, Podhoretz at NRO, Dan Riehl, Goldstein, Atlas Shrugged, etc saying the US and Israel lost and failed?
The most likely scenario has Israel saying that its troops along the Litani will return directly to Israel. Along the way, they will encircle and disarm Hizbollah.
The Lebanese and UN troops will occupy the territory behind them as they advance back to the border.
Hizbollah will have no place to run to. They will be squeezed to death.
Israel will gladly withdraw, in their wake will be token Leb soldiers with unloaded sidearms while hezzies do the AK-47 happy dance and parade shiny syrian and persian missles. The french may not even show up.
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