Re: You are a master of rationalization. Israel shoots itself in the balls and you say they did it on purpose!
Yes, somehow, the Israelis botched it all on purpose.... The only positive outcome for Israel would have been another Lebanese civil war --an Iraqization of Lebanon, if you will, pitting Maronites against Shiites against Sunnis. That's what the Israeli overreaction (bombing the hell out of Lebanon's civil infrastructure) was supposed to bring about and THAT'S WHERE the Israeli ploy failed miserably!
Israel cunningly hoped to replicate what the US is doing in Iraq --playing off Iraqi minorities against each other-- but Lebanese proved smarter.... Christian Lebanese under General Michel Aoun(*)'s leadership didn't play ball with Israel --they didn't take on their Muslim brothers:
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Anyway, as I said, the Israeli stratocrats have had, from the start, a longer view as well as a wider purpose, namely, the taming of Iran. And key to such a big enterprise is the nature of the Israeli leadership itself.... Ever since the departure of Israel's icon Ariel Sharon, Israeli stratocrats have been looking for another warlike leadership, preferably IDF veterans whose military expertise/record wouldn't be, couldn't be, questioned. And that's where the so-called Lebanese "fiasco" might prove useful: it'll help Israeli warmongers get rid of "civilian usurpers" Olmert, Peretz and co and replace them with no-nonsense generals who won't blink first against Iran....
Gus
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