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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (78121)	7/16/2006 1:11:11 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

>>Winning in this particular war means getting rid of Hizbullahland, with the Lebanese army taking control over all of Lebanon.<< Nadine - Separating this particular battle from what has been basically a continuous war seems like a useless distinction. But I must say that I've been thinking about this, and reading some of what has been reported and opined here and other places, and to some extent I was coming around to some extent on the question of whether it made sense to attack Beirut's airport and bridges, etc. I was starting to think that it really was analogous to our attacking Afghanistan, which in my opinion made sense. Since the people who were shooting at us were the honored guests or even sponsees of the government there, the government may as well have been shooting at us. But when you put it like you did above, I start to actually go back the other way. If we want the Lebanese goverment to control southern Lebanon, how does screwing up their infrastructure help? Seems like it's very unlikely to put them into a cooperative frame of mind in the long run. But the Afghanistan analogy works only partly here, since the moderate elements of the Lebanese government are effectively hostages to Hezbollah. They can't exert control without triggering civil war. I can't claim to have a better solution, because the whole situation is just too twisted. But I still don't think the Israeli's current approach is going to have the desired long-term effect. I hope I'm wrong. - Allen