Time To Start Wrapping It Up?
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Ruh roh: Worst Case Scenario: Hezbollah’s Conventional Forces. When Bill Roggio says the results of ground fighting between Israeli troops and Hezbollah are “disquieting,” it makes me a little nervous. According to his sources, the Hezbollah ground forces are much stronger than anyone expected. “The Hezbollah fighters are well trained,” he writes, “and according to an anonymous senior military source, using ammunition and equipment such as armor piercing rounds, body armor, night vision gear and laser sights.”
At some point in the very near future, Israel should probably step back and and perform a cost-benefit analysis on this situation. I think their window of opportunity is closing rapidly: At first, nobody questioned their right to respond to Hezbollah’s hostage-taking with an all-out rescue attempt, and if they happened to knock out some Hezbollah infrastructure in the process, nobody really minded. But now everyone’s forgotten about all that stuff and they’re all focusing on the refugees fleeing Beirut. (Btw — leave it to Americans to complain about being evacuated from a warzone.) Israel needs to wrap up this operation pretty quickly before world opinion goes completely against them (and us), and they will probably have to face the very real possibility that those two soldiers are gone forever. (And they should not, under any circumstances, consider a prisoner swap with Hezbollah to get them back.)
On a tangential note, it boggles the mind to ponder how the human race got to the point where two weeks of war is too long.
Starting tonight: My Weekend Without Echoes!
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