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What's perhaps surprising is that so few of Olmert's detractors have criticized his decision to launch the war after Hizballah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers on July 12. Nor has the bloody draw with Hizballah occasioned any doubt over the long-standing doctrine that Israel must meet force from its enemies with an overwhelming force of its own. What riles Israelis is that Olmert and his generals didn't hit harder and with more deadly effect. Says Golan: "There's a sense that if the army had been allowed to pulverize Hizballah, we could...
...like films of this kind. They are inherently corny. And however realistically they're shot, they are generally regarded as bad for us, encouraging false dreams of hope, even of glory. I agree - in theory. And as sports become an ever more smoothly functioning and soulless corporate machine I doubt that a modern-day Dick Vermeil would try to energize his team's fan base with an open tryout. Even at the time he was criticized...
...Would negotiations with Iran and Hizballah persuade them to give up their attempts to wipe Israel off the map? I doubt that. History teaches us that it is important to believe the declared intentions of megalomaniacs. Jeffrey Fillman Boston...
...other regions, says Shih of UBS. Clive Bannister, the London-based CEO of HSBC Group Private Banking, notes that Asians are more "hands-on" in their investment decisions than the bank's European clients?and less willing to wait for returns to be realized. "There is no doubt that the investment time horizon for many of our Asian clients is shorter than it is for our European ones," Bannister says. Asia's wealthy also tend to be younger and to have made their money through their own entrepreneurial efforts, while there is more inherited wealth in old-world Europe...
...Other North Korea-watchers are skeptical of the estimates, but with accurate data hard to come by in the Hermit Kingdom, "we simply don't know and can't know" the extent of the fatalities, says Gerald Bourke, spokesman for the World Food Program in Beijing. Bourke has no doubt, though, that "there are a lot of hungry people" in North Korea right...