israel/palestine
Thank God for those bunker busters:After shoveling sand from their tunnel Thursday, the smugglers hoisted the prized cargo out of the narrow shaft: bags of potato chips -- a minor.
It's irrelevant whether Hamas fighters avoided contact with the IDF because of orders, or because they were afraid. The answer, not that it matters, is both; guerrillas should be afraid.
I diavlogged with Eli Lake last week:
The Provost at UK has launched a "War on Attrition", designed to mobilize faculty around the goal of keeping economically marginal students in school during the recession. In spite of.
Debates about the meaning of "terrorism" often feature some odd assumptions, including:(1) Killing 500 civilians while making some attempt to avoid killing them is less morally problematic than killing five.
And we have ourselves a ground invasion of Gaza. A week ago, I did not expect this. If the Israelis want to push this, Hamas cannot win in any conventional.
At least one Arab state can be expected to leap to Israel's defense:Of the various premises on which the U.S. invasion of Iraq was sold to the American people, one.
The ante is rhetorically upped:“The goal of the operation is to topple Hamas,” Haim Ramon, the deputy to Ehud Olmert, the Prime Minister, said. It was the first time since.