Terrible

Is this the year of dreadful decisions?

The ceasefire deal Israel has agreed to is terrible for many reasons, starting with the fact that Hezbollah agreed to it in one breath and then said they'd do pretty much whatever they wanted to in the next.

My thoughts on this pretty much echo those of Dean Barnett, aka Soxblog, currently posting on Hugh Hewiit. What he writes is what I've always said, again and again:

1) What would happen if all the Arab nations and their terrorist proxies like Hezbollah set down their arms and gave up their ambitions to drive Israel into the sea?

There would be peace in the Middle East.

2) What would happen if Israel disbanded the IDF, junked its nuclear weapons and declared to its neighbors that she would do anything to live in peace?

Israel would be annihilated, millions of its citizens killed. The term genocide could be used to describe the ensuing holocaust, but since that term has been so hopelessly debased by American academics, a new term would have to be created like super-duper-mega genocide to really capture the nature of things.

Early this decade, Ariel Sharon--the statute of limitations on Lebanon '82 having run out--was elected Prime Minister by the Israelis for the same reason, one decade earlier, New Yorkers elected Rudy Guiliani mayor: for their physical safety. My prediction is that when the sheer irresponsibility of this deal becomes manifest, Benjamin Netanyahu will return from the wilderness as a wartime Prime Minister.