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...quite. It turned out that Great Powers have wildly diverging interests. They may oppose war in the abstract, but they have other priorities too. Italy coveted Abyssinia. Germany wanted to rearm and reconquer. Japan sought control of Asia...
...security of the region as long as it maintains its arsenal (Nasrallah claimed that Hezbollah still possesses 20,000 rockets), is permitted to expand it, and continues to voice its aggressive intentions.It is both a practical and psychological necessity to force Hezbollah to disarm. If allowed, Hezbollah will rearm itself with the aid of Iran, renewing its threat to Israel and further undermining the Lebanese government as well as the broader Middle East peace process. Disarming Hezbollah will weaken its ties to Iran and allow Lebanon to rebuild itself without remaining a slave to the regional goals of both Iran...
...Israeli soldiers are mostly living inside their tanks and APCs, where they eat, sleep and conduct their ablutions. Once they have expended much of the ammunition they're carrying in firefights with Hizballah, they are typically relieved after a few days, driving back to the Israeli border to refuel, rearm and, for many of the soldiers, to catch a day or two of r&r in abandoned resorts near the border - which can even include visits from mothers, wives and girlfriends, before being sent back...
...first week (taken as a proportion of the population, that's the equivalent of the U.S. losing 5,000) and probably more in the cleanup operations in the weeks that followed; Pushing north to the Litani River would make driving back to the border to refuel and rearm every few days impractical, and Israel would be forced to develop fixed positions and supply lines - something they've carefully avoided until now, because these offer very tempting targets to Hizballah; Deploying up to the Litani wouldn't necessarily eliminate the rocket threat to northern Israel, because even Katyusha rockets fired from...
...ones getting killed. Allen B. Ury Costa Mesa, California, U.S. It seems clear that the U.S. needs to deploy additional troops in Iraq and that commanders have repeatedly asked for more manpower. Any military historian knows that a war cannot be won when the enemy is allowed either to rearm or to get money and additional troops on a regular basis. That situation is occurring in Iraq because the U.S. does not have enough troops to close the borders with Syria and Iran. We won't win in Iraq until we have more troops to close its borders. Don Johnson...