Josh Manchester from TCS makes an interesting observation about the relationship between the US invassion in Iraq and the current Hezbollah-Israeli crisis.

Decisive action is what has traditionally been missing from the wars of the Middle East. Land changes hands, blows are exchanged, and peace eventually is negotiated. But the underlying dynamic never changes because the sides are rarely faced with a decisive defeat, the only condition that can force the most avowed of men to abandon the ideas they hold dear....this moment would not have been possible without the invasion of Iraq.

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