no the arab world doesn't agree. that was the initial assessment, but that isn't the current view of things. sure, they see that hezbollah was able to not be exterminated, but apart from that, they lost lots of men, material and infrastructure and barely did any damage to israel. what's worse, the entire psychological effect of the hezbollah missile arsenal has now been nullified. hezbollah did the worst they could do, and now israelis know that they can withstand it. basically, hezbollah is now totally impotent as a strategic force against israel, and that fact isn't lost on arabs either.
On 9/22/06, Gruss wrote: > > > RoMunn wrote: > > What a victory- the Hezbollah stronghold of southern Beirut in rubble, > the > > south of the country occupied by UN and Lebanese troops, supplies from > his > > Iranian patrons strangled by the Israeli military, and absolutely > nothing to > > show for it. > > > > That's pretty myopic. To arabs, and most of the World for that > matter, this was a David vs. Goliath and David won. > > The question is not what did Hezbollah lose, but what did Israel gain? > Nothing. They lost. If you have to wonder if you won, you lost. > > And even if some agree with you, the entire Arab world agrees with me > and thus the victory. > > > -- --------------- Robert Munn www.funkymojo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:215912 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
