Don Surber on the WAPO opinion Contributed by Zero Ponsdorf
Don's post is here:
Don is a transplanted hillbilly and a genuine member of the MSM. Don't have clue as to why they keep paying him?
The original WAPO article is
WHEN ISRAEL withdrew its troops from southern Lebanon in 2000 after
more than two decades of occupation, it also issued a warning: Any
cross-border provocations by Hezbollah, the militant Shiite group,
would elicit a severe military response. So there can be no surprise at
the violent reaction to Hezbollah's ambush of an Israeli patrol
Wednesday, in which three soldiers were killed and two others taken
captive by the guerrillas. And there can be no doubt that Iran and
Syria, Hezbollah's chief sponsors, bear responsibility for what has
instantly become the most far-reaching, lethal and dangerous eruption
of cross-border fighting in the Middle East in recent years.
Europeans
and others in the international community are already criticizing as
excessive Israel's swift military response. Conspicuously they have
said comparatively little about the volleys of dozens of rockets
Hezbollah rained down on northern Israel yesterday. In fact, given the
all-too-familiar patterns of violence and retribution in the Middle
East, the Israeli attacks are entirely predictable, and precisely what
Hezbollah and its patrons must have expected and even wanted. But for
Israel, the pressing question must be whether its reprisals will be
effective in achieving the desired results -- retrieving the soldiers
taken hostage and reasserting Israeli deterrence in the north.
Dunno exactly what lit WAPO's fuse, but the perspective is of note.
Contributed by Zero Ponsdorf on July 15, 2006 at 10:21 PM in , , |
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