Here is a kind of echo of Wretchard's idea that if you do not have the will to defend your self your weapons are useless. I found this blog entry by Patrick McGreevy in City Belt.
As the vastly more powerful force, the IDF could have crushed Hezbollah, but only by conducting a genocide on the Shiite people of southern Lebanon who support its resistance. And genocide, on global TV, is the one sin Israel cannot survive.
Hezbollah is a designer resistance force, shaped by repeated Israeli blows against Arabs -- designed not simply to counter its powerful adversaryÂ’s field techniques, but to infiltrate its soul and seek its deepest pain. It finds this pain like a heat-seeking missile finds its warm target because Hezbollah‚Â’s resistance, too, is born of pain. This is the madness we confront.
