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

Marvin Gandall marvgandall at videotron.ca
Thu Jul 20 07:50:12 PDT 2006


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.
============= Hope not. It would indicate that Hezbollah made an awful miscalculation, which no longer appears (to me, at any rate) to be the case. You're probably puzzling why Israel hasn't economized till now by simply dropping three of its nuclear weapons on Tyre, Sidon, and Beirut.



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