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To: Bilow who wrote (196010)	8/8/2006 8:54:18 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Carl, I am agreeing with you. Dont get me wrong. A more open Israel is not a bad thing but it depends on who its open too. Your worst case scenario is something I knew intuitively in June of 1967 after Israel won the six day war. There were plenty of excited Jews back who celebrated israels victory as something that finally put the jewish peoples helplessness during the holocaust behind them. As a kid, i remember warning my parents generation about the demographics. But no one back then thought that peace wouldnt come in the not to distant future. Anyway assymetric warfare is only discussed now as giving an advantage to the terrorists. I think the superpower in the region always has the option of using overwhelming force. If Israel had the equivalent of B 52s, i doubt that hizbolla could maintain those dug in positions. If the israelis felt that threatened the gloves would be off and carpet bombing of the region even by fighter jets and artillery would leave a diffeent result from what is being done now. I hope the arabs dont get to full of themselves as the Jews did in 67. They may be in for an assymetric shock of the alternate kind. Again i hope not and i hope this spate of violence leads to peace by creating the prereq on the arab side of having fought israel bravely. Mike