Israel is losing World War III

[IndianaGreen]

Israel is losing World War III

By Bradley Burston

With thousands of thousands of soldiers already in Lebanon, seven brigades and counting, after 4,600 IAF bombing runs , 150 of them Sunday night alone, 80 to 90 percent of Hezbolah's 2,500 fighters are alive and shooting. They are still capable of firing 200 rockets a day into Israel.

We are losing the war, in part, because our actions have only gained sympathy for Hezbollah.

Polls are now showing that nearly 90 percent of Lebanese ? including many who had serious doubts about Hezbollah in the past, now support the organization's war with Israel.

The war has so elevated Hezbollah in the eyes of the world, that terrorism authority Prof. Robert A. Pape, writing in The New York Times, could without flinching compare the group to "the multidimensional American civil-rights movement of the 1960s."

Oddly, one of the lessons of the war is that the government, fearing a backlash over the deaths of soldiers, has directed an offensive which has relied on remote control warfare, effectively causing the needless deaths of hundreds of civilians in Lebanon, and, in the process, putting a million Israelis in range of Katyushas and Fajrs.

It's true, this is World War III. And we are losing.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/747340.html

[Joe Bacon]

1. But they can't be losing! The book says they win!

I wonder how TV preachers will explain this to their sheeple if Israel does lose?

[IndianaGreen]

3. I am sure they will blame gay marriage for delaying Jesus's return

They have been spinning religious prophecy to suit their purposes for 2,000 years.

[bemildred]

2. Fair. Not great, but fair.

Still shopping the "war to save civilization" bullshit.
But at least admits the folly of the present course.
Get some licks in on Olmert and Halutz and those fuckwits.
But clearly setting us up for a long war, wallowing in Nazi and WWII analogies, rather than admitting that the answer to folly is not more folly. Thinks the problem is some sort of technical deficiency in tactics or something, rather than a delusional world view.

Comparing Hezbullah to MLK and the civil rights movement is a bit much, I hadn't heard that one.