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To: SARMAN who wrote (195928)	8/7/2006 10:50:53 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 281500

Can you shed some light on his take? Well I disagree with both "Hezbollah is not only winning every round of this fight," and "it was bound to win from the start. " Its possible that the IDF is indeed overated but I don't think the writer establishs that as anything but his own opinion. The fact that a Merkeva rolled over a mine hardly establishs that Israel is overated. Anti-tank mines are nothing new and Israel isn't the only country to have modern tanks put out of action by inferior forces. Even if the IDF is overated that doesn't mean it is incompetent or a paper tiger. And the IDF was no happier when they realized they had to quit using Gaza as a speed bag to spar with an enemy that could kill eight IDF guys in a few seconds. You don't need a very powerful force to kill eight enemy in a few seconds. Kill eight thousand and you may have a point, but eight is nothing. Even in the context of previous Arab Israeli wars a lot more than eight Israeli soldiers died in many encounters. It seems to me that your grading according to ability level here. Giving Hezbollah an "excedes expectations" , well maybe it did but if killing eight soldiers was exceding expectations it only was so because the expectations were low.