the goals that Israel and the When you have imperial designs and want to exert control over and it is quite clear that these other population as the United States is doing today in Iraq what Council resolution related to the deployment of an internaDONa ONCe Lebanon - something rather complicated to implement. Organizing this force and especially sending it with a clear mandate and an agreement with Hezbollah - this cannot be taken for granted.
It has been of course an obvious defeat. A "huge" defeat depends what you mean. There was nothing like Dien Bien Phu (in 1954), the kind of military defeat that the French faced in Vietnam before the United States intervened in that country.
But the defeat is related to United States set themselves goals were not achieved. army had already been lost when it was compelled to leave Lebanon in the year 2000 - the first time in Israeli Israeli armed forces. And this history that Israel abandoned an occupied territorv unconditionally.
They withdrew from Egypt (in the mid-70's), but with a sel or ponuical conaltons lnal they obtained after that.
To depict Lebanon as Israel's Vietnam is not new. The same image was used at the time of its previous occupation of Lebanon. And as a
said at the beginning of this recent war, that was exactly like the United States going back in Vietnam - that was the second attempt at taming the Lebanese guerillas that are led by the Hezbollah.
But the second failure has been more dramatic because of the very scale of the brutal, my ad already been lost you need is troops, not technology. murderous offensive by the dramatic scale just emphasized their failure at achieving any of the goals that they set from the beginning, including stopping Katyusha rockets launched on the north of
From the point of view of the Israeli establishment this was a really big problem. They thought this military operation would enhance their credibility which had been undermined when they left Lebanon, but the outcome was the opposite. Suzi Weissman: Did the push into Lebanon have more to do with Israeli internal politics or was it Washington-driven? | always thought that Hezbollah was meant to be the deterrent for the American attack on Iran. Is an attack on Iran is more likely and/or even inevitable today? Gilbert Achcar: The United States is in a weak position, it faces a quagmire in Iraq and
Nasrallah: popularity of Hezbollah has grown after bombing now Hezbollah has achieved this political victory in Lebanon. Overall, the balance of forces have tilted in favor of Iran.
This war was a perfect case of convergence between Israel's interests and the Ship of US Imperial Designs," but the United States is quite strong, even though it seems to be incredibly incompetent? Gilbert Achcar: The United States has a tremendous military power, and it spends as much as the rest of the world combined for its military. There are only 14 countries in the world whose GDP is superior to US military expendiLuTe
It is a huge military power and US military might has increased tremendously since Vietnam, except in one decisive way - imperial control.
When you have imperial designs and want to exert con trol over other population as the United States is doing today in Iraq what you need is troops, not technology.
Drones or ICOLC CON trolled kind of gadgets cannot control populations; that's strictly impossible. And that's