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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Proud Deplorable who wrote (193062)7/25/2006 4:13:53 AM
From: geode00  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Israel has already backed down from its original -- a whole two weeks or less old --- goals. This is the question that I was asking tonight, why can't the US and Israel fight the pipsqueak war?

So Rummy wanted to remake the military and make it lean and mean and high-tech. Apparently what he really meant was to make it low on soldiers, bullets and food but still make it cost more money than ever.

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"But Olmert and Peretz should know that a large, cumbersome army built for conventional wars cannot defeat a small agile guerrilla group that controls the territory. Also, there is little in common between a neat military plan outlined in an air-conditioned briefing room and the reality of getting entangled in the old familiar Lebanese quagmire. "
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