Billmon strikes again!

This is like a scene from a bar fight, where one of the pugalists makes sure his friends have a good strong hold of him, and then starts yelling "let me at him!"

Ehud Olmert's office said late Friday that the expanded incursion into Lebanon would continue "for the time being," despite agreeing to a cease-fire resolution drafted by the United Nations Security Council.

Senior Israel Defense Forces officers said that the IDF is "continuing forward at full power,"

This, of course, is 100% kosher bullshit - nobody in their right mind would start a major offensive at "full power" knowing full well that it wil all have to be shut down within 48 or at most 72 hours. The whole thing was a fraud to begin with -- just a desperate attempt by Olmert and his bedraggled colleagues to try to kick a little dust in the eyes of their domestic constituents. The message -- "yeah, boy, if they had'na stopped me I would have kicked his ass but good -- isn't very original or at this point even slightly believable.

But what are they going to do? They've blown it, right down the line, from the opening bid for an aerial knockout, through the defeats and retreats, the incredible shrinking war aims, the daily humiliation of seeing a third of Israel bombarded with rockets. And now this -- a ceasefire that appears to give Hizbullah all or nearly all of what it demanded (although not the Laker tickets), all of it to be supervised by a "reinforced" version of UNIFIL (most of the reinforcements will probably never arrive) working under a limited one-year mandate, and with no more legal authority to use force than the current bunch of blue helmets.

I haven't even had time to check in on the Israeli target practice in Lebanon... So they are as we used to say in the "hood," getting their ass handed to them huh?
Well Billmon has put up one of his classics... My favorite quote:

All the bellicose rhetoric in the world -- like Schiff's threat to respond with "cruel craziness" if and when other red lines are crossed in the future -- can't conceal the failures: of a miltary aristocracy's arrogant faith in technology, of an Army that's grown accustomed to waging war against Palestinian teenagers, of a political establishment that believes with zombie-like intensity that the cure for incompetence is ever greater applications of military force. (Italics mine)

Interesting. I wonder what "Kimmy," is thinking now... Funny how after all the cheerleading from the right, the justification on civilian deaths, and all the rest, it appears that Israel is being bested by a rag tag group of terrorist. And yea they are terrorist, and yea I believe Israel has the right to fight terrorist who are killing their citizens, but this particular implementation of the so called "Bush Doctrine," is as bankrupt and and morally questionable as what we have done to Iraq... The neocons who created and supported these wars, always from a safe distance of course, will go down in history as the cowards who thrived on conflict, but lost... Yeah LOST. Because no matter how you size it up, other than a full scale invasion of Lebanon, followed by a nuking of Iran and possibly Syria, is the only way the Israelis can win this conflict, and in winning, they will lose any hope for future peace.

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