Israel Continues to Lose Battle with Hezbollah

I don't know about anybody else, but I sure am not impressed with Israel's ability to strike at Hezbollah. The battle is an undeclared victory for Hezbollah in the fact that they are holding back one of the largest and certainly the best supplied military powers in the world. Even though Israel has been quite successful at killing women and children, and they seem to be quite good at destroying civilian infrastructure, they just don’t seem to be able to strike at Hezbollah leadership or put an end to the rocket attacks. Incursions by Israeli troops into Lebanon have occurred at a high price in relation to ground gained. Israeli troops have routinely been ambushed and have taken heavy casualties including the disabling of many Israeli tanks. After watching US troops roll through Afghanistan and Iraq, there is a big difference between the military of the US and the military of Israel. In a military that requires mandatory service of its soldiers, you get the worst of soldiers with the best of soldiers. And a soldier on the front lines in Lebanon may have to serve beside someone who would have a problem hitting a camel with a baseball bat from 3 feet. And you also have to consider, in the fog of war, historical evidence has proven these untried and untested troops typically fire large bursts of rounds and have absolutely no clue as to what they are firing at or what they are hitting or they simply hold up their weapons and pretend to fire. Even if it is unsaid at this time by most of the Israeli troops, but in the back of their minds, they are wondering what the hell are they doing in Lebanon fighting a battle over 2 soldiers. It is the blockheaded stubborn Zionist mentality that they don’t care how many Lebanese civilians die, they don’t care how many Lebanese or Hezbollah soldiers die, they don’t care how many Israeli civilians die and they don’t care how many Israeli soldiers die, damn it, we have to make them pay for taking those two soldiers. If you take a step back and look at the big picture, that is like saying, I don’t care if the whole forest burns down, damn it, I am going to get these two sticks to catch fire if it kills me and everyone around me. So to see that, in their zealous lust for death, they are indiscriminately bombing and killing is no surprise. It goes back to my blog yesterday where I provided a factual basis for Israel’s inability to enter into a conflict without ever having an exit strategy. Their exit strategy is to blow the hell out of them until they decide that they can not take any more. What they fail to realize, is the same thing that Nazi Germany failed to realize during WWII during its bombing blitz of London, the greater the destruction, the higher the resistance and the greater the morale. You can not bomb people into submission, it has never worked historically. The bombing of Serbia by the US during the Bosnian-Serbian crisis only served to have the average Serbian, line up on bridges with t-shirts emblazoned with a target. The massive US “shock and awe” attack on Iraq neither shocked nor awed anyone and the US continues to fight resistance troops in Iraq. The bombing campaigns in North Vietnam from Linebacker 1 to Linebacker 2 and so forth, provided nothing but a lot of holes in the ground, and the resistance eventually won that battle.

So as we look at Israel’s assault on Hezbollah, it is clear that they are not striking at leadership, they are making very little progress in stopping rocket attacks, they have done more to encourage Arab fighters to join the cause than Syria and Iran combined, and they are no safer now, and probably less safe, than they were a month ago. So tell me, other than the ability to commit war crimes, kill women and children and drag the name of the US through the mud with them, what has Israel accomplished. And when they leave, who will have to pay to clean up the mess. You got it, it will be the American taxpayer, the same person who paid for the bombs that were given to Israel, will be the same people to come back and provide aid to the Lebanese to rebuild the country. The only sense this war makes is that people making bombs are making money.