With the outgoing, and the incoming

Impressive reporting by Michael Totten, on the Israeli-Lebanon border, with many good photos of what this mobile artillery base is like and why some IDF spokesmen are upbeat, almost sanguine.

“Has anything been permanently accomplished up there?” I said.

“Some things, yes,” he said. “We destroyed a lot of their infrastructure. They had more weapons and more underground bunkers and tunnels than we had any idea. People coming out of there say it’s vast.”

But not much looks hopeful in Lisa Goldman’s report from "the shooting gallery."