[lbo-talk] The sobering effect of long-range missiles: WP report

[Carl Remick]

>From: Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca>
>
>The "ballistic intifada" on Israel's borders might be temporarily set back
>by air power and land forces which carve out buffer zones, but advances in
>missile technology have given Hebollah and the Palestinian popular militias
>a new means of redressing the military balance. This may force the Israelis
>to negotiate rather than attempt to unilaterally define the terms of their
>previous and planned withdrawals from the Palestinian territories and South
>Lebanon.

Dream on.  It would seem far more likely that Israel will abandon its 
customary restraint (har, har) and completely incinerate Lebanon, then throw 
the ashes into the Mediterranean.

Carl