Gladly. Grammour Boy wrote:
Uhm...I would think that anyone who cares about such geopolitical issues would know that "guerrilla warfare" is fought by "civilians", hence the name "guerrilla". That the guerrilla forces of Hezbollah are organized within and fight from civilian areas should come as no surprise to those who know or should know about such matters.
Every Israeli soldier has to pause being a civilian into order to put on that uniform. You expect Hezbollah to be applauded because they don't put on a uniform when they go out to kill the enemy? It takes real courage for an Israeli soldier to put on that uniform when his enemy does not. Get it straight.
The IDF is not facing a legitimate army in battle. Rather, they are battling against a well-organized but small, nonetheless, guerrilla force with wide support from the civilian population of Lebanon.
Since you don't mention the massive funding of Hezbollah by Syria and Iran, I wonder just what you think those two countries are doing fighting Israel by proxy.
The IDF should have known by now, as the Russians found out in Afghanistan in the 80's, that wars against guerrilla forces almost always end in failure.
Then you argue Israel should surrender. After all, Grammour Boy, you've got plaudits from The Question, Zodiac, and Mentalist on your BRILLIANT essay, let's hear your answer as to what demand of Hezbollah Israel should meet. Oh wait, that's right, Hezbollah wants Israel to die! They have no other demands, Grammour Boy, so if Israel is doomed to defeat against the Guerilla foe, then Grammour Boy argues they should just lay down and die. I know this because this issue has been on the news for weeks, and you haven't offered a different solution to Israel defending themselves.
This latest incursion into Lebanon by the IDF has been nothing but a miserable failure politically and from a public relations standpoint.
From a P.R. standpoint, you already supported anyone fighting Israel. That's a given. So what from a P.R. standpoint changed from your long-standing hatred of Israel? Nothing. Israel knew this perfectly well, which is why they are not fighting a P.R. war. They know that impressing Grammour Boy or Question or Mentalist isn't going to happen ever, so they fight to win, and to hell with what you think. And they would be perfectly justified in such an attitude.
Weeks of bombing campaigns on the obviously inferior guerrilla forces of Hezbollah has not had the intended effect of diminishing Hezbollah's influence in the region nor its ability to fire missiles into Haifa. Rather, they have brought shame on the IDF for killing innocent civilians by raining down laser-guided bombs on apartment buildings in Lebanon.
So it's your brilliant analysis that Hezbollah shares none of that shame in deliberately basing their operations in apartment buildings and anywhere else they can use the innocent as human shields. Not even a teensy bit?
The U.S. should end the war between the IDF and Hezbollah now before more innocent civilians on both sides serve as sacrificial lamb in this ill-advised conflict.
The U.S. should support the IDF, and Hezbollah should saw through your neck and put your head up on display as a warning to other gullible, willing dupes of the west.
-Ogami
