[whataretheysaying] Mary Madigan: Hezbollah's military and strategic failures

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Posted by Mary Madigan:
Hezbollah's military and strategic failures
http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1211218982.shtml


   Michael Totten: [1]Lebanon will not become the next Gaza

     Commenters both inside and outside the country compared Hezbollah's
     invasion of West Beirut last week to the Hamas takeover of Gaza
     last year, which is perhaps understandable: that's what it looked
     like. If Lebanon's mainstream Sunni-dominated partyâSaad Hariri's
     Future Movementâhas a militia that is able and willing to fight, it
     didn't make much of an appearance. Hezbollah seized the western
     half of the city in a walk. Most journalists focused on this
     portion of the conflict because West Beirut is where almost every
     journalist in Lebanon lives and where almost every hotel for
     visiting journalists is located.

     Far less attention has been paid to Hezbollah's military and
     strategic failure in the Chouf mountains southeast of Beirut where
     Lebanon's Druze community lives. Hezbollah picked a [2]major fight
     there and lost. After three days of pitched battles, its gunmen
     were unable to conquer a single villageâeven when they brought out
     mortars and heavy artillery.

     The Druze are among the fiercest of warriors, and everyone in
     Lebanon knows it.

   [3]More..

References

   1. http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2008/05/lebanons-future.php
   2. http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2008/05/hezbollahs-thir.php
   3. http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/lebanon-s-future-11376