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To: Cogito who wrote (78075)	7/14/2006 3:41:33 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

But again, who cares? What does this have to do with the present moment? Well said and thanks for bringing it back to the context. My question: How does the support for Israel benefit the US? Going by the results of Desert Storm, the US benefits more by dissociating itself from Israel.

To: Cogito who wrote (78075)	7/14/2006 3:53:37 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 81568

They DO have a choice, and they are choosing to escalate on a grand scale. Yes, Alan, they do have a choice. Their choice is between not responding, or offering to trade for the hostage, again, which Hizbullah will take as another display of weakness, or responding with a few exchanges of artillery as before, which Hizbullah will also take as weakness, or giving Hizbullah the war that Hizbullah and its Iranian masters have long been angling for. They made the latter choice. They hope by doing so to reestablish Israeli deterrence against Hizbullah, or better still to force Hizbullah to disarm as the Lebanese want. The first two choices just get them more artillery shells on their northern towns (Haifa too now) and more kidnapped soldiers. This is a scenario long prepared, long foreseen by everybody who watches that border. It was only a matter of when the Iraians would up the ante.