Iraq the Model’s Mohammed Fadhill explains.
"The key point in this strategy is to keep the half-solution alive. This method proved successful in keeping the despotic regimes in power for decades and these regimes think this strategy is still valid. What makes them this way is their interpretation of international comments which came almost exactly as they always do; calls for restraint and urging a cease-fire which they (Iran and her allies) think will mean eventually going back to negotiations which they know very well how to keep moving in an empty circle."
What it really boils down to is the insanity of half measures when dealing with terrorists. You either go for victory or you accept their war of attrition, a slow death of a thousand cuts. But even if the Olmert government knows that – and it surely does – will they have the courage to push on through the usual condemnation?
Everyone in the blogosphere, it seems, apologizes before noting something DEBKAfile has up. The conventional wisdom is that DEBKA is not always accurate, but the Israeli open-intelligence site certainly is interesting and has many readers, and now has a good active map that shows what’s within the range of some of those thousands of missiles that have been raining on northern Israel since last week, almost one-a-minute at times.
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