What interests me more is how Israel's loss is going to affect the U.S. ruling class' view of them and therefore, how it will affect the general perception. Despite our vaunted rooting for the underdog, the U.S. despises losers. It only got interested in Israel when it started winning. So, we will see.
The only wrinkle is that I hear the loss has been played as a win on the media. I don't watch the news and can't vouch for how well that has gone over. We'll see.
Joanna
Dwayne Monroe wrote:
>Ravi:
>
>While the Hizbullah is said to run a government within
>a government, from what I can tell, they do not have
>the apparatus associated with conventional
>governments, including the ability to build armies for
>battle, train them in the open, raise taxes to pay for
>them, etc. Does anyone doubt what a real all-out war
>between Israel and Hizbullah would produce?
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>Israel did fight an all out war; so much ordinance and
>fuel was expended in the effort to destroy the Hezzies
>and reduce Lebanon to a pre-reconstruction state
>requests to Washington for supplemental supplies
>winged their way to the (displeased) imperial capital.
>
>
>Look at this map of the targets struck within Lebanon:
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><http://www.lebanonmaps.org/Locations_bombed_Aug13.jpg>
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>This looks like something quite close to total war to
>me.
>
>And yet, the effort failed. The current political
>turmoil in Israel over the immense gulf between
>Olmert's boasts and "ground truth" indicates an
>understanding at nearly all levels of Israeli society
>that the war was a full throttle affair that produced
>no desired results.
>
>...
>
>
>But look mate, we could go back and forth all night
>over the question of whether or not Hizbollah is
>guilty of war crimes and find ourselves having arrived
>no where fast. There's vodka to be consumed and lips
>to be kissed so let's virtually shake hands and agree
>to disagree.
>
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>Modern war is terrorism.
>
>World War Two was many things, chief among them a vast
>laboratory for perfecting methods of creating terror
>from the air (see, for example the aluminum polished
>wit and wisdom of Gen. Curtis LeMay).
>
>
>By launching missiles into northern Israel in
>retaliation for IAF bombing the Hezzies broke zero new
>ground; they simply joined the grand tradition of the
>weary Earth's most civilized states.
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>.d.
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>What is the brain? If you don't know the answer to that, you've forgotten how to think.
>
>Look Around You: Episode No. 8
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>http://monroelab.net/blog/
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