In a few days, when the Lebanese front calms down, the internal politics will kick in. Some grievances will be aired, some accounts will be paid – as usual after our regular helter-skelter manner of going into wars.
Bradley Burston (who but Bradley, indeed?) offers a sober look at what is already trumpeted as a victory by both Nasrallah and Olmert. The article starts with:
It went into the war as the best equipped guerrilla force in history, with sophisticated laser-guided anti-tank missile weaponry, with bunkers built with reinforced concrete walls four meters (12 feet) thick, with more than 13,000 rockets, a launcher for every eight of them, command and control networks built with Iranian advice and Iranian advisors, and a string of fortifications, some of them originally built by Israel, up to the very edge of Israel’s northern border.
And ends with:
When this war is over and Israel’s troops are gone from Lebanon, and when the rage at Israel begins to subside, it will be Nasrallah’s turn – like Nasser’s four decades ago – to answer to fellow Arabs for his actions.
And you should read everything in-between by yourselves, it is worth your time.
Cross-posted on SimplyJews
It seems that this article could be a minor sub-melody compared to this one by Bernard Lewis of the WSJ . Bernard is not one of the hysterical screamers and is certainly not a member of the anti-semetic jews of america. He did warn about the the bin Laden threat in 1998, and his latest warning should not be taken lightly.
Comment by winston — 08/14/2006 @ 12:35 am