Halutz: Ground operations will be limited in scope

[lovuian]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/741318.html

Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Dan Halutz told reporters in Tel Aviv on Friday that any military incursion into Lebanon will be limited in scope.

"We will fight terror wherever it is because if we do not fight it, it will fight us. If we don't reach it, it will reach us," Halutz said in a nationally televised news conference. "We will also conduct limited ground operations as much as needed in order to harm the terror that harms us."

When the army presented its plans for an operation in Lebanon, the timeframe that it provided was one of "weeks".





"It takes time to hit at terror," Halutz said.
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This isn't going to be a rush job like we did in Iraq...

[gratuitous]

1. Mr. Halutz knows that going in?

I've heard that war gets awfully foggy and that it can get that way awfully fast. And even the planned lays of mice and men--I mean the best-laid plans gae aft aglay.

[lovuian]

2. I think Israel is realizing they are pretty entrenched and

bombing isn't going to just do it...

plus it helps put pressure on Syria...