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July 19, 2006
I Wish We Had Some Of That...
Paul Mirengoff cites a report that Israeli resolve to finish off Hizbollah, even given its dovish and militarily inexperienced government, is well-nigh monolithic. Paul quotes from Saul Singer's must-read article:
Not a single mayor, or even a man-on-the-street can be found, even in the bomb shelters of our bombarded cities, who wants this war to stop a moment before the IDF has finished the job, and the threat from the north is permanently erased.
Paul concludes, quite correctly:
When a powerful nation stands together in this fashion behind a specific mission, the likelihood that the mission will succeed is high.
As I mentioned to my wife a while ago, we can thank God once again for the fact that George Bush was elected (his coming train-wreck on immigration notwithstanding). It has been so very gratifying to observe the Bush administration's restraint from attempting to diplomatically rein in the Israelis--can you imagine the desperate vacillating scramble to assemble a myriad of talking conferences that a Kerry administration would initiate?
Not that the Israelis would give a rat's ass what a President Kerry would think.
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