If Hizbullah Accepts a Ceasefire Resolution from the UN, You KNOW That It Has To Be Bad for Israel

Concerned Citizen: Caroline is an excellent writer, is just to the right of me politically, and has written an excellent piece on the ceasefire and its terms, below. My headline for this entry says it all. In her analysis, which is tight and pursuasive, she raises the little considered issue (at least by the press) of what a Hizbullah victory in this war -- sealed in blood by the UN resolution -- means to our war in Iraq and the safety of our soldiers there. She claims the Hizbullah has been in the vanguard training Al Sadr's Shiite militia in southern Iraq (wholly believable as Iran's global terrorist proxy), and that moderate Shiites are going to be running for cover as a result of this war (according to Caroline, America blames Israel's inept prosecution of the war for its acceptance of this ceasefire -- hard to argue with this reasoning, if not the result). While this result can lead to further criticism by analysts that Bush and Condi were wrong in the first place to give Israel such a bright green light to pursue this war, it is hard to blame them too much for this -- never in Israel's history has its leadership so bungled the prosecution of a war on so many differnt levels.

I will try to write my next installment, my assessment of what is likely to happen over the next six months in the Israeli-Lebanese war (Hizbullah is part of the Lebanese government, after all), from Italy.

Ciao!

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