Vital Perspective has the leaked text of a UN cease-fire resolution. [As I type this, CNN alerts that the resolution has pass unanimously in the Security Council.]
You can do a lot of parsing here -- it calls for Hizballah to disarm, but not really...looks like it's back to the status quo.
Israel forgot a very old lesson -- strike hard, strike fast, cover ground before the outside world steps in and puts a stop to it.
I think you're probably right, Solomon. The Israeli government should have adopted the Powell Doctrine, at least as it was practiced during the 1991 Gulf War. Powell believed than that one should go in and get out fast, and that one should have a concrete, limited and achievable goal.
Come to think of it, the younger President Bush should have adhered to that doctrine, as well. Maybe that's why the older Bush didn't "go all the way" in 1991. He probably better understood that doing so would have opened a can of worms. It was too bad about the Iraqis whom we encouraged to rebel, only to be cut down (with no aid from us) by Hussein's forces.
The weakness in the resolution is the lebaness govt could be bullied by its hezbollah jackboots in the cabinet to have the govt "consent" to Hezbollah being in the south!
I think you're probably right, Solomon. The Israeli government should have adopted the Powell Doctrine, at least as it was practiced during the 1991 Gulf War. Powell believed than that one should go in and get out fast, and that one should have a concrete, limited and achievable goal.
Come to think of it, the younger President Bush should have adhered to that doctrine, as well. Maybe that's why the older Bush didn't "go all the way" in 1991. He probably better understood that doing so would have opened a can of worms. It was too bad about the Iraqis whom we encouraged to rebel, only to be cut down (with no aid from us) by Hussein's forces.
The weakness in the resolution is the lebaness govt could be bullied by its hezbollah jackboots in the cabinet to have the govt "consent" to Hezbollah being in the south!
I can interpret this resolution in no other way than as a resounding Israeli defeat.