Sunday, July 01, 2007

Lessons Learned

After the Israelis bollixed up the Hizbollah War last summer, I wrote that the Israelis would be better the next round:


Israel will learn from this fight. Hizbollah is feeling pretty good right now, but when they enter the next round with high hopes of finally killing the Jews once and for all, the IDF will rip their hearts out.


As Napoleon might have said, when you start to destroy Hizbollah, destroy Hizbollah.


The only question is whether Syria will get stupid and try to intervene to save Hizbollah from destruction.


One Hand Clapping reports that the next round will be different:

Whatever is coming this summer will not have the same misdirected response of last summer. For Iran, Hizbullah, and Syrian to assume that the next round will be like last summer is simply not realistic. Israel is a very small place and the regular drills with the air force and the army are conducted in the open. Here in the north, there have been some very impressive air shows as well as immediate response drills by ground forces. Several weeks ago, the night sky was suddenly filled with the roar and flame of low flying jets scrambling from three directions towards the Golan pulling up over the Heights and turning back over the Upper Galilee to the Sea and back to their bases.

Israel played to their enemies' strengths last year. The next time, homey won't play that game.

If Iran and their loyal poodle Syria strike Israel again this summer, using Hizbollah and probably Hamas in Gaza and openly backing the terrorists, maybe we and the Israelis will split the job. Israel will hammer Syria and we might nail Iran at the same time.