Wars end when soldiers with weapons occupy the contested ground, and all opponents who would take the ground from the soldiers are either killed or surrender. That's it. Air attacks do not win wars. Naval attacks do not win wars. Diplomacy does not win wars. Air, naval, and diplomacy can obtain truces, or effect the shape and timing of campaigns in which soldiers on the ground conquer and hold the ground, but only ground victories win wars. If Hamas gunmen control the ground in Gaza after this skirmish, then Hamas has won; if IDF soldiers control the ground in Gaza, Israel has won. It's that simple. Olmert didn't know the lessons of history in Lebanon; let's see if he knows them now.
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The making of a radical mind - Introduction to My 1980s Journal
Reflections on my life as I enter middle age - What My Body Parts Blog Is About
Returning through doubt to the faith of my forefathers
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What landscapes, buildings, movies, etc., impressed me in my youth. - Arrogance (8 articles)
What is arrogance? Am I arrogant? Yes. - Obama, Marxist (17 articles)
Obama's ideological commitment. - Most Influential Books (2 articles)
One list from 1980, one from 2009. - A Primer on America's Economic Crisis (5 articles)
It's not just housing and the banking system. - Life's Illusions (5 articles)
Sex, movies, politics, family life, and cancer - Can There Be A False Religion? (4 articles)
A framework for evaluating Islam's claim to be a religion - The Causes of Obesity (4 articles)
What is obesity, what causes it, is it lack of exercise, whose fault? - Issues of Medicine and Insurance (5 articles)
How to solve California's and America's medical care and cost crisis - President Bush, an Evening at the Coffee Depot, the Homeless Drunk Man
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Some people need convincing - Preparing to Die (3 articles)
How can we prepare? - This Objectionable Man
I am an objectionable person - When Is Death Not Pointless?
Death in combat is not pointless - Military Service
What being classified 4F did to my views of war - Friendship (2 articles)
Friendship is not what most people think it is--or want it to be. - My First Time
Yes, my first time for that - Burdens of Women (3 articles)
Caretaking, pregnancy, men - Thinking About Abortion (7 articles)
Why women get abortions; devaluing women; influence of men; family formation, my girl friend's abortion
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