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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (195437)8/7/2006 2:17:33 AM
From: geode00  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
-- Nearly a month after the capture of two Israeli soldiers and the deaths of eight more in a border raid by Hezbollah on July 12, Israel's military response has failed to secure any of the war aims set out that day.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert promised "a new reality" in Lebanon, where the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group would be downgraded and its threat to Israel removed.

But nearly four weeks on, 2 million Israelis remain under daily Hezbollah rocket bombardment across northern Israel. Hezbollah fighters are putting up stiff resistance against advancing Israeli ground forces. The Shiite militia is gaining political support. And the implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1559, which calls for the deployment of Lebanese government forces up to the international border and the disarming of nongovernment militias, appears as distant as ever.

Israeli military planners had envisioned a swift victory without a large ground invasion. That strategy failed, and now about 10,000 Israeli troops are encamped across the border and appear set to stay in southern Lebanon, sparking for many fears of a return to the 18-year Israeli occupation that ended in May 2000.....

sfgate.com

This is dangerous stuff for Israel as it is for the US in Iraq. You show the world your second biggest cards and the world isn't impressed. With such weak leaders in office, would they resort to showing the biggest cards and setting off conflicts they can't begin to imagine?
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