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Another Middle East War Is on the Horizon

Submitted by Maury Leon, Nov 3, 2006 15:07

The weakness Israel shows is in deference to international opinion: as dose the United States. No military can win a war with its hands, or even one hand, tied behind its back. That's what world public opinion does when a government gives due deference to it. In order to defeat the enemy, war must be perused with ruthless efficiency. The West refrains from all-out war – destroy the enemy and neutralizing those who support it. That was the experience of the West in Vietnam. That is the lesson of post World War II war. If Israel is to survive as a nation-state, it will have to adopt the strategy and tactics of its enemy and ignore international opinion.

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