First Israel must finish the job of taking care of Hezbollah. Destroy as many of their weapons as possible and take care of their command structure.
I believe the only course of action to finish it would be a full scale invasion up to the river, which is about 20 miles north. They can clean out the training camps, find the caches of weapons - they just found a whole bunch of weapons and rockets in a Mosque in that first Lebanese village that they took. Is this how the terrorists treat their own houses of worship? Not a big surprise there.
To leave Hezbollah not thoroughly destroyed would be a failure.
Ok, now once major hostilities cease and Israel controls the southern part of Lebanon, NATO troops can move in and Israel can withdraw back. NATO troops will have fully responsive Rules of Engagement to be able to attack any Hezbollah units they encounter to prevent them from moving back down South.
That's the current plan I believe and it seems that both Bush administration and the Israelis are in agreement on that. NATO should be interested as well.
As far as the cease fire with the Palestinians and Hamas. Hamas and other terror groups declared ceasefire unilaterally just earlier today I believe saying they are immediately stopping launching rockets at Israel... Only to have it broken by their own militants shooting rockets at Israel later in the day. Oh yeah, ceasefire now.
"To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it." AR
a lot of the news from out there today. Shepard Smith is really good, and he is on right now. He has a very good knowledge of the situation on both sides and also talks a lot to the Israeli troops. Fox News has had some of the best coverage of the conflict.
"To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it." AR
yours is a cyclic cycle, just keep doing this decades and decades to come as they rebuild their resistence, which they will do because civilian casualties especially ensure they'll be motivated to do.
foreign troops as buffer with a mandate to repel anyone trying to get through to try to start trouble again. It will take a long time but simply imposing some temporary cease-fire will do even less to solve the problem of terrorists remaining there.
"To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it." AR
A cease-fire set to start when the IDF soldiers are returned might work, but I'm not sure if any state can allow a hostile force to kidnap their soldiers, take them across lines and then hold them without a response.
I've felt that Israel's attack has been a bit unfocused, but as long as Hezbollah is holding kidnapped soldiers, they need to be responding.
if we spent money building local inrastructure in the sorts of areas causing these trouble, the rise of local market traffic would affect it's viability to operate as a weapons store... businessmen don't like that risk...
when you kill this many people, someone ends up bitter. You can't kill fast enough to do it, if you anihilate a whole tribe of people, some pacifists of your own tribe will be offended and resist you further, it never ends.
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no, and here is why
First Israel must finish the job of taking care of Hezbollah. Destroy as many of their weapons as possible and take care of their command structure.
I believe the only course of action to finish it would be a full scale invasion up to the river, which is about 20 miles north. They can clean out the training camps, find the caches of weapons - they just found a whole bunch of weapons and rockets in a Mosque in that first Lebanese village that they took. Is this how the terrorists treat their own houses of worship? Not a big surprise there.
To leave Hezbollah not thoroughly destroyed would be a failure.
Ok, now once major hostilities cease and Israel controls the southern part of Lebanon, NATO troops can move in and Israel can withdraw back. NATO troops will have fully responsive Rules of Engagement to be able to attack any Hezbollah units they encounter to prevent them from moving back down South.
That's the current plan I believe and it seems that both Bush administration and the Israelis are in agreement on that. NATO should be interested as well.
As far as the cease fire with the Palestinians and Hamas. Hamas and other terror groups declared ceasefire unilaterally just earlier today I believe saying they are immediately stopping launching rockets at Israel... Only to have it broken by their own militants shooting rockets at Israel later in the day. Oh yeah, ceasefire now.
"To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it." AR
have been watching
a lot of the news from out there today. Shepard Smith is really good, and he is on right now. He has a very good knowledge of the situation on both sides and also talks a lot to the Israeli troops. Fox News has had some of the best coverage of the conflict.
"To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it." AR
cyclic
yours is a cyclic cycle, just keep doing this decades and decades to come as they rebuild their resistence, which they will do because civilian casualties especially ensure they'll be motivated to do.
that's why you need
foreign troops as buffer with a mandate to repel anyone trying to get through to try to start trouble again. It will take a long time but simply imposing some temporary cease-fire will do even less to solve the problem of terrorists remaining there.
"To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it." AR
Dependent one
A cease-fire set to start when the IDF soldiers are returned might work, but I'm not sure if any state can allow a hostile force to kidnap their soldiers, take them across lines and then hold them without a response.
I've felt that Israel's attack has been a bit unfocused, but as long as Hezbollah is holding kidnapped soldiers, they need to be responding.
I disagree
if we spent money building local inrastructure in the sorts of areas causing these trouble, the rise of local market traffic would affect it's viability to operate as a weapons store... businessmen don't like that risk...
when you kill this many people, someone ends up bitter. You can't kill fast enough to do it, if you anihilate a whole tribe of people, some pacifists of your own tribe will be offended and resist you further, it never ends.