Posted by
Gary Gross on Thursday, August 17, 2006 12:35:21 AM
That's the first thing I thought after reading
this article about how Lebanon won't disarm Hezbollah.
By now everyone knows that the Lebanese government won't disarm Hezbollah. They've told the Hezbos to just keep their RPG's and Katyusha's out of sight. (I'm guessing that they're advocating a different policy on rockets and mobile launchers.) No comment is needed in terms of whether UNIFIL will disarm the Hezbos after failing to do so for three decades. Like Lebanon, UNIFIL is part of the problem.
That leaves the disarming of Hebollah to just one group: the IDF. This time, they'd better be serious about it because they won't get an unlimited amount of opportunities to protect their country. It's time that they stopped being timid. It's time that they stopped caring about civilian casualties. It's time that they focused on one thing: killing and/or disarming Hezbollah. It's time for Israel to send a message to its 'neighbors' and let Syria and Iran know that they mean business. It's time they let them know that they'd best not mess with Israel because the price the terrormasters will pay will be substantially higher than what Israel will pay. It's just that simple.