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To: tejek who wrote (295644)	7/19/2006 12:45:05 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1572384

"Israeli troops are now inside Lebanon.......some are saying the soldiers are as much as 10 km. inside the country. " That was inevitable from the pattern of bombing. Bush is a moron or is colluding with the Israelis. Disarming Hezbollah isn't the goal, or at least not directly. That would mean house to house in all of the cities and towns in the southern part of Lebanon. Israel doesn't have that sort of manpower, even if they conscripted everyone from 8 to 80. The goal is to force Syria and/or Iran to fish or cut bait. Either they come to the rescue of their clients, or they let them swing in the wind. They've been providing Hezbollah with pellet guns so they could plink at the Israelis. Israel got tired of that and has raised the ante. Who will blink first? And yeah, this sucks for Lebanon as a country. But Israel isn't in a position to nurture Lebanon. They have a very real problem, there are 14 million Israelis. They are a couple of orders of magnitude more Arabs. The Israelis have to win, every time. Losing once means they have lost everything. So a democratic Lebanon is a luxury. The failure here is that Lebanon was never given the tools they needed to secure the country. They were left with a powerful, extra-governmental force, i.e. Hezbollah. They didn't have to power to conquer them, their only option was to try to assimilate them. But assimilation takes time. They ran out of it.