Re: The sobering effect of long-range missiles: WP report

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

maybe this war involves an Israeli effort to get Hizbollah to use up
its missiles, which would stop the missiles flying for awhile...
(Further, the missiles don't seem very effective except at raising
Israeli public support for the govt.)

On 7/20/06, Marvin Gandall <marvgandall@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jim Devine:
>
> > perhaps the vociferousness of Israel's response to Hizbollah's
> > kidnapping of two soldiers arose because powerful Israeli groups
> > didn't _want_ to negotiate?
> >
> ==================
> Clearly they don't "want" to, but if they can't stop missiles from hitting
> Israeli cities, they may ultimately "have" to. Unless they're prepared to
> use nuclear weapons.


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Jim Devine / "You need a busload of faith to get by." -- Lou Reed.