Let's think this one through...
I imagine a scene where Ehud Olmert, the Prime Minister, is sitting around with his cabinet and the generals talking about how to defeat Hezbollah.
"OK, what if we keep bombing Hezbollah from the air?"
"I don't know, that doesn't seem to be working. We need to try something
else. Let's think big!"
"Hey, I've got it!" yells a young deputy...."what if we bombed a UN
observer post?"
"Wow, that's a GREAT idea," says another, rueful of the fact that he
didn't come up with the idea himself.
"Yeah, it's not like world pressure on us to stop is EXORBITANT or anything
like that. I'm sure if we attack a UN outpost, no one is going to notice. No
one's watching the war anymore anyway, the Americans are caught on the beach,
watching reality TV."
"Man, this is just brilliant. We'll deliberately attack a UN outpost which
will send the message that no international peacekeeper is safe-and that'll get
everyone off our backs! No pressure will follow that one. This one is foolproof."
"Right, think of all the benefits from a deliberate attack on a UN outpost," says Olmert. "It'll increase world pressure by a factor of 10, do nothing to affect Hezbollah's capabilities, and it'll make us look like we are indiscriminate killers. Definitely the way to go.""Hey, can you pass me the joint?"
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