tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post3409403169221101861..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: Learning About WarYaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-6090690740586976572010-02-17T15:08:27.675+02:002010-02-17T15:08:27.675+02:00Actually, the weird thing about the article is tha...Actually, the weird thing about the article is that it's subtext is wrong. Everyone seems to think there's no military solution, the operation isn't working, it will only make things worse. It turns out Sharon knew what he was doing. The way to peace isn't any closer now than it was then, but the violence has mostly been gone, and the article was written at the exact moment the tide changed.<br /><br />It's hard to make forecasts, especially about the future, even when you've got the full blast of conventional wisdom on your side.Yaacovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-1147439818824679982010-02-17T14:26:58.101+02:002010-02-17T14:26:58.101+02:00Soccer Dad
thank you - what a read - there should ...Soccer Dad<br />thank you - what a read - there should be definitely more of that <br />- when in 2006 I wanted to learn what Urban Warfare means these days the best I could find was a Fallujah book by Bing West, an author I had gotten to like via The Atlantic, and which in an apt confirmation of the NYT-piece is titled "No True Glory".<br />SilkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-11693236359211779552010-02-16T20:48:27.322+02:002010-02-16T20:48:27.322+02:00It reminds me a bit of this observation:
It's...It reminds me a bit of this <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/12/magazine/an-impossible-occupation.html?scp=4&sq=israel&st=nyt&pagewanted=all" rel="nofollow">observation</a>:<br /><br /><i>It's hard to make sense of the incident: perhaps it is just another of those odd, inexplicable things that happen in a war. On another level, though, it seems to capture the quandary in which the Palsars find themselves. Most any other army in the world, faced with the very real threat of suicide bombers, would probably have simply shot the man in the street -- just as most any other army would have shot the boy in the house the night before -- but even in the heat of the moment the Palsars hesitated.</i>Soccer Dadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16142724823098073038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-53308445728724386572010-02-16T15:46:38.849+02:002010-02-16T15:46:38.849+02:00I remember the ROE in Tzahal during the 1st intifa...I remember the ROE in Tzahal during the 1st intifada. It felt ridiculous to debate whether it was ok or not to shoot to kill if a molotov cocktail was in someone's hand as opposed to the same molotov flying through the air.<br /><br />It was a hinderance to our job. <br /><br />But there is an important point of ROE: It turns us away from barbarity.<br /><br />And that is why they exist - because we are better than our enemies: The jew haters of the world.<br /><br />AsafAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com