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To: SARMAN who wrote (197491)	8/15/2006 12:40:31 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hezbollah didn't really "stand up to the ME supper power and survive" in the same way Egypt did. Israel used only a fraction of its army in this conflict. Of course that doesn't stop Hezbollah from spinning the situation as one where it stood up and remained mostly intact against the worst that Israel could dish out. It likely even believes the spin. From this spin they can get better morale and more support, and if that happens than they have in a sense won. Do not forget that Israel is a terrorist state I will not forget it, in the same sense that I will not stop beating my wife. I don't have a wife, and if I did I wouldn't beat her, so I could hardly stop doing so. A little militia was able to stop it, which tells you something. It tells me that the current government of Israel did a half-assed job. Its possible that the situation was such that doing the job right wouldn't be called for. It certainly would have been very difficult. But if that's the case than they should have responded in a different way from the beginning. Talking about crushing Hezbollah, unleashing a major air campaign, calling up reserves, and then basically stopping is paying most of the price to get none of the potential gains.