printMy column, Call “Israel Needs Precision Pac Men” (Or “Call Off the Israeli Air Force!”), calls for calling off the Israeli Air Force, “ they’ve done a horrific job:
“But first, let us agree that a lumbering army of reluctant conscripts (IDF) is no match for a lean mean force of volunteers (Hezbollah). In addition, a conventional military force hasn’t the capability to contain an outfit like Hezbollah …
The Golani Brigade, an outstanding elite unit, is now on the ground. But Israel has better. In future, she should consider stationing on the borders the best of her special-operations units such as the ‘Sayeret.’ It’s trained in surgical strikes, including modern urban counterterrorism operations …
Since special ops soldiers are highly select, motivated volunteers, their esprit de corps will match Hezbollah’s. Since they’re trained in precision, “ deep-penetration operations, they won’t be turning countries into parking lots and their inhabitants into homeless people, or piles of ash.
Comments are welcome, but what I said in this post about some missives not being fit for this classical liberal forum obtains. Letters reveling in the joys of killing non-combatants don’t belong here. Sorry.