If Olmert had even a shred of a sack, he'd preemptively pummel the "Party of God" into oblivion.....
Two years after the Second Lebanon War, the Iranian-backed Hezbollah organization has bolstered its recruitment efforts at an unprecedented rate in preparation for a fresh war with Israel, The Guardian reported Sunday.
The report quoted an unnamed Hezbollah fighter as saying: "It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah [Hezbollah chief] commands us" to attack.
According to the report, the Islamist group has of late been sending "hundreds, if not thousands" of recruits to training camps in Lebanon, Syria and Iran in ancticipation of conflict with Israel.
"The villages in the south are empty of men," an international official was quoted as saying. "They are all gone, training in Bekaa, Syria and Iran."
Israel and the Hezbollah fought a 34-day war in the summer of 2006, sparked by the militant group's cross-border raid and abduction of two Israel Defense Forces reservists.
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Some simple military stuff for y'all:
The botched invasion onto Southern Lebanon was due to the fact that Israel had, for the first time in it's existence, failed to pursue modern day "Blitzkrieg." Instead they bought into what turned out to be a slow attrition conflict - chewing your way along yard by yard, mile by mile. Their Strategic plan was flawed, thanks to incompetent officers at a high level.
This has already changed. Israel has returned to it's original rigorous training regimen, and placed competent officers in as Commanders.
Oh, and most important, at a high level and on down, they have stated that they will kick anyone's ass who starts up with them next, and they mean it. Israelis don't play.
The next time Hezbollah begins something with Israel, they are freaking going DOWN.
Posted by: Last Angry Man | April 27, 2008 at 09:14 PM