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Originally Posted by parihaka
I'm still holding off until I see the composition and ROE for the UN force. I suspect the worst, but hope for the best.
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Syria is saved from the brink of internal implosion and has been validated as the strongest player of the Great Game in the Levant.
Iran is magnified, as well as having virtual hegemony over Lebanon and southern Iraq and has acheived its strategic objective of diverting attention away from its still-progressing nuclear program.
Hezbollah is now no linger a state within a state; it IS the state, with greater opportunities than ever before to humiliate Lebanon's 'army' by possessing better weapons and more men.
Nasrallah will be a virtual king, now that he will dispense all the aid and rebuilding efforts, financed by the Saudis and others, to his friends and supporters, without being pressed by a feckless and duplicitous UN that will - once again - refuse to enforce its own 'demands'.
Israel has been defeated on the ground by no more than 3,000 ragtag militiamen - ARAB militiamen.
The US has allowed France to talk it into a dumbass deal that sells out an ally by promising to police the zone...and then reneging on that promise to provide troops.
The kidnapped Israeli troops have been abandoned by their country to whatever fate their subhuman captors devise for them, most likely a show trial and imprisonment, before a dishonorable 'deal' to trade them for the worst kind of terrorist scumbag criminals justly held by the Israelis.
And if anybody thinks this is the end of it, I will guarantee you that a weaker Israel will STILL have to fight a yet stronger Hezbollah, with Iranian and probably Syrian troops at their side in the next 'go'.
Bleak. Discouraging. Bitter. This is what DEFEAT feels like, people, and if we keep electing weak men, we'd all better get used to it.
Ronald Reagan and Ariel Sharon in their heyday would've done better than this.