Welcoming Israel to the Club
Now, the greatest military power in the world and the greatest military power in the Middle East have both come to grief against hotheaded, angry, religious martyrs, brandishing the weapons of our cold-war policy.
Israel spent five weeks pounding Hezbollah, which pretty much meant knocking hell out of the whole of Lebanon. Infrastructure, private business, personal property, lives and states-of-mind were well crushed. The physical damage will take decades to put back in shape, at a cost to the international community in the hundreds of billions. The costs in terms of human anguish, lost lives, limbs and shattered families is uncountable.
It showed Hezbollah it couldn’t kidnap two Israeli soldiers without cost, right? Power follows power, into the valley of darkness. Israel has by far the most powerful military in the Middle East and they broke up a hell of a lot of furniture. We don’t put faces on ‘furniture,’ the so-called collateral damage that insurgents, who hide their weaponry and …