tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13378665.post115258073406963620..comments2024-03-01T16:32:41.076+08:00Comments on Sun Bin: The blueprint for action needs to tackle the source of 4GW - examples: Lebanon, Afghanistan and IraqSun Binhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08093210384069958083noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13378665.post-1154372613129258242006-08-01T05:03:00.000+10:002006-08-01T05:03:00.000+10:00A sound strategy from IDF general Eiland had been ...<A HREF="http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,429341,00.html" REL="nofollow">A sound strategy from IDF general Eiland had been rejected.</A><BR/><BR/>Eiland: I suggested a package deal which was to be presented by the international community -- by the Middle East quartet, for example. I had good reason to believe that the United States, United Nations and France would support it. We could not merely demand the implementation of UN resolution 1559 and the disarmament of the Hezbollah. In order to get the consent of the Lebanese government, Israel also had to make concessions -- like the release of Lebanese prisoners -- to stop the flights into Lebanese airspace and to agree to a redemarcation of the border between Israel and Lebanon.Sun Binhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08093210384069958083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13378665.post-1154359623000313402006-08-01T01:27:00.000+10:002006-08-01T01:27:00.000+10:00good questions. Is Israel encouraged by internatio...good questions. <BR/><BR/>Is Israel encouraged by international inaction toward its disproportion reaction in Gaza strip the weeks preceding its invastion into Lebanon? Does Olmert really believe the rule of the game has changed, changed so much that he could outdo the US by this much?<BR/>-- if the former, the international community needs to share the blame for encouragement by silence.<BR/><BR/>(And as Zenpundit discussed) Is there a backstory of Bush egging Olmert in a grand strategy to turn Iran into Iraq? or the contrary that Olmert ignored Bush's objection in this campaign?<BR/>-- if for the latter, Bush is inexcusable for being maneuvered by Olmert.Sun Binhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08093210384069958083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13378665.post-1154341856975391222006-07-31T20:30:00.000+10:002006-07-31T20:30:00.000+10:00Questionable point I'm about to make, but:Bush and...Questionable point I'm about to make, but:<BR/><BR/>Bush and Blair could have allowed for the indiscriminate killing of Lebanese during ''Israel's right to defend itself,'' but I wonder if now they have an excuse to make peace with Lebanon and to refuse Olmert his desire to keep going? Olmert was once in the Shimon Peres government when an errant artillery shell killed 100 people in the same Qana area about ten years ago. <BR/><BR/>Media sources, like Debka, say that Israel's mistake came during a transition period in the administratoin of the war. <BR/><BR/>Was Israel in the process of pulling back when this happened? <BR/><BR/>Was the US and the UK prepared to come in, sponsored by a French UN force and make peace with Lebanon? <BR/><BR/>How close is the US to Olmert?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com