Monday, July 31, 2006

Qana demonstrates limits of air power

Israel is learning how difficult it is to fight an insurgent force that hides among civilians, wears civilian clothing and use the population and the UN as a shield when confronted by the IDF. Trying to root such a force out using well trained and well disciplined ground forces is tough. Trying to do it with air power alone is impossible. Fighting the conventional armies in Syria and Iran would be a better use of Israeli air power.

Something is not right about what happened in Qana. Israel strikes a building at midnight and at 8 am that building collapses. Why didn’t the people get out during the intervening 7-8 hours? Better question; why didn’t they get out when Israel warned them to when fighting first broke out?

When the truth about Qana is known, I think we will find that the brave Hezbollah fighters are now target their own people and blaming Israel. In the short run, with the help of the MSM, Hezbollah seems to be getting the upper hand in the propaganda war. But such is sure to be the case in weasel Europe where governments there are predisposed to blame any bad thing happening in the Middle Eats on the Jews. After all, many of these governments have a militant Muslim population of their own that must be appeased.

Then Kofi Annan goes to the Security Council and acts as if he has had some great revelation when he announces that killing innocent civilians is a bad thing. That’s the kind of insightful leadership the world longs for from its world political body. Were Kofi not mired in relativism and equivalency, he’d stop with you’re both equally guilty except Israel is more so talk and roll in on the terrorists that started all of this. Even as Israel suspends its air campaign, Hezbollah continues to fire hundreds of missiles into Israel.

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