This is good (but depressing). I wonder to what degree we can use domestic opposition against Hezbollah (since unlike with Hamas, in Lebanon there's large non-shiite populations who don't want to wreck the country in order to bomb Israel).
You can use them to deter Hizb'Allah from starting a war, and we are already doing that, but you can't use them in any way once the war has started. Theoretically, if we kept up the current situation long enough, enough resentment to Hizb'Allah would build up to make it possible to actually actively coordinate with Lebanese paramilitaries against Hizb'Allah, as we once did against the PLO. But that would take many years and it would probably end up just as much of a disaster as last time.
That's such a strong statement "probably end up just as much of a disaster". Can you please give me next week's lottery numbers while you're on a run of predicting the future with such certainty?
Things change, don't they? In the 24 years after Israel's withdrawl from the south lebanon buffer zone Lebanon has sure prospered under Hezbollah's ever increasing stranglehold of the country - politically, economically, security, right? It must be that if Israel continues kicking Hezbollah in the face harder and harder as it has since July, and follows up with a ground invasion of the south, that the Lebanese will treat Hezbollah exactly as they did in the 80s. I call bullshit on such strong assertions in the changing environment. Lebanon is a failed state in a much worse situation, and it is all pinned on Hezbollah and the rest of the Iraninan axis (Syria, Shia Islamist proxies, Iran).
We have reached the point of no solutions.
Time to turn to G-d.
Unless Non-Zionism can come up with something;)
This is good (but depressing). I wonder to what degree we can use domestic opposition against Hezbollah (since unlike with Hamas, in Lebanon there's large non-shiite populations who don't want to wreck the country in order to bomb Israel).
You can use them to deter Hizb'Allah from starting a war, and we are already doing that, but you can't use them in any way once the war has started. Theoretically, if we kept up the current situation long enough, enough resentment to Hizb'Allah would build up to make it possible to actually actively coordinate with Lebanese paramilitaries against Hizb'Allah, as we once did against the PLO. But that would take many years and it would probably end up just as much of a disaster as last time.
That's such a strong statement "probably end up just as much of a disaster". Can you please give me next week's lottery numbers while you're on a run of predicting the future with such certainty?
Things change, don't they? In the 24 years after Israel's withdrawl from the south lebanon buffer zone Lebanon has sure prospered under Hezbollah's ever increasing stranglehold of the country - politically, economically, security, right? It must be that if Israel continues kicking Hezbollah in the face harder and harder as it has since July, and follows up with a ground invasion of the south, that the Lebanese will treat Hezbollah exactly as they did in the 80s. I call bullshit on such strong assertions in the changing environment. Lebanon is a failed state in a much worse situation, and it is all pinned on Hezbollah and the rest of the Iraninan axis (Syria, Shia Islamist proxies, Iran).