Chest-Beating -- While Losing the War
LEBANONS FALLUJAH
Dahr Jamail, Mother Jones Website
..."What we should do in southern Lebanon is employ huge firepower before a ground force goes in," quizzled Ramon at a security cabinet meeting headed by Olmert, "Everyone in southern Lebanon is a terrorist and is connected to Hezbollah. Our great advantage vis-a-vis Hezbollah is our firepower, not in face-to-face combat." Yes--Bint Jbail has shown them this. That they will hold off on the larger scale invasion, as it would be a disaster for Israel to face one Bint Jbail after another. A gross analogy for Bint Jbail would be Fallujah, April 2004. There is now a short grace period for the women, children and elderly "terrorists" there who can't leave. Lebanese Red Crescent workers have told me that they can't get there to evacuate people, because they are too afraid more of their ambulances will be bombed by war planes. So it will be another "shock and awe" before rolling in the ground troops. Read-Fallujah, November 2004. And like Fallujah, which the U.S. military has failed to have control of at any time following the leveling of that city, Israel will find the same in southern Lebanon...
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Dahr Jamail, Mother Jones Website
..."What we should do in southern Lebanon is employ huge firepower before a ground force goes in," quizzled Ramon at a security cabinet meeting headed by Olmert, "Everyone in southern Lebanon is a terrorist and is connected to Hezbollah. Our great advantage vis-a-vis Hezbollah is our firepower, not in face-to-face combat." Yes--Bint Jbail has shown them this. That they will hold off on the larger scale invasion, as it would be a disaster for Israel to face one Bint Jbail after another. A gross analogy for Bint Jbail would be Fallujah, April 2004. There is now a short grace period for the women, children and elderly "terrorists" there who can't leave. Lebanese Red Crescent workers have told me that they can't get there to evacuate people, because they are too afraid more of their ambulances will be bombed by war planes. So it will be another "shock and awe" before rolling in the ground troops. Read-Fallujah, November 2004. And like Fallujah, which the U.S. military has failed to have control of at any time following the leveling of that city, Israel will find the same in southern Lebanon...
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