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Why Hezbollah Won the War
From The Gathering Storm
How sad. Here's a man grasping at ideological straws.
I just finished listening to Bush’s Press Conference on the cease fire in Lebanon. How sad that he just doesn’t understand that you can not win an asynchronous war using conventional tactics. You can’t win a war where you allow your enemy to find sanctuary and support from rogue nation states. You can not win a war where your enemy sets up and celebrates a terrorist state within a state as a victory. Then again, maybe he does but is afraid to admit it.
Hezbollah won this war. They know it because they are still in control of Lebanon and for the first time, an Arab state has defeated the mighty war machine of Israel. The Arab states now know that tactics used against Israel in Lebanon and against us in Iraq and Afghanistan is working. They found the way to bring the world powers to their knees.
We will soon see other celebrations in the Mid-East when we leave Iraq in the hands of a young democracy to take control of their own destiny as we did with Vietnam – and the end result will be the same. And soon, Afghanistan will follow because our fellow ‘allies’ will play into the hands of the Islamists and tire of the casualties inflicted upon them seeing no end in sight because they refuse to eliminate the sanctuaries from where the jihadists receive support and protection – Iran and Pakistan.
Am I discouraged? Yes.
Am I disgusted? Yes.
Am I mad? Damn right!
I’m mad because we are, or soon, will be in a defensive position in this war because our allies do not have the moral backbone to move us out of this asynchronous warfare and into one that we can win.
So, here we sit. Wringing our hands over shampoo and toothpastes instead of making our enemies wring their hands over seeing an F16 over their capitols. Here we sit, waiting for the next blow to fall upon us while our enemies sit in the catbird seat seeing their strategy is working and knowing their centers of support will not be attacked by their enemy. We have learned nothing from the ideological struggles of the last century. We hear that this is a different type of warfare that’s more than just military but include cultural warfare as well – yet we seem to be unable to act.
Until, like all tyrannies before it, they miscalculate the behavior of the free world and put our backs to the wall. When that happens, the Islamists using both violent and peaceful means to advance their agenda of world domination will wish their fathers never met their mothers.
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