It's a Quagmire, alright
I couldn't resist this article. Thanks to Daled Amos, I've come across this piece describing the quagmire an aggressor is facing in the Middle East. On his own, a theocratic dictator decided to attack one of the most powerful nations in the region, and now has his hands full managing the resulting imbroglio. His original allies are starting to call for him to cut and run, and those who the world think might sympathize? They don't.
The editor-in-chief of the Arab Times notes:
HASSAN Nasrallah is in a quagmire. If, according to his own statements, Nasrallah knew Israel would attack Lebanon between September and November, if he was aware the Zionist enemy was ready for war and if he had received this information, which even the Pentagon and CIA could not receive, why did he give Israel an opportunity to launch the war before time by kidnapping two of its soldiers? Nasrallah has called for the beginning of a second phase of this war.In what he calls “Beyond Haifa,” Nasrallah says his fighters will begin rocket attacks deeper into Israel, south of Haifa. We wonder if Nasrallah took any time to review his achievements in the first phase of the war against the enemy before thinking about the next. So far his only achievements have been causing the destruction of Lebanon’s infrastructure and killing of innocent Lebanese. If he begins the second phase the only result will be wiping out of whatever remains of Lebanon’s infrastructure and killing of the rest of the Lebanese.
I think that despite the claims of the usual suspects, Arab opinion is not one monotholic view.
