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Eumelia ([personal profile] eumelia) wrote2006-08-11 07:24 pm

There are acronyms in this post

It takes a long time for me to formulate the words needed to say what it is I feel needs to be said.
No words can describe what happened in the past two days.
I simply do not want to put down in words how utterly disappointed I am in my commanders, because that's personal, and I've already ranted to my family about it and putting what I want to say about the fubar* situation that went down yesterday I will be exposing state secrets.
None of which should be put on-line.

Instead I shall vent about the snafu** situation that is going on in the North and how our government is doing ziltch, zero, nata, nieta and a whole lotta nothing for the people there.
Where the fuck is Olmert?! He will be giving a public address on Tuesday... Tuesday. If he were a decent PM (I'm not even talking person here) but the bloody leader of my fine country, he would be giving speeches every damn day, morale and patriotism is something that is needed for those who are targeted.
The way the armed wing of Hezbollah works, as I've stated before, is guerrilla warfare, that means they use scare and surprises tactics to subdue the population and while Israelis are tough and have been through more wars and skirmishes in the past sixty years that is remotely sane, they have been quite resilient against the rockets landing in their back yards, but it's wearing them down and they are getting no governmental support. Quiriat Shmona, Metula, Ma'alot, Tzfat and the other small Yeshuvim and Kibbutzim are ghost Townes, but not everyone has family/friends/generous acquaintances/generous strangers in the Centre and South for them to sweat this time out and they're stuck in between the rows of red tape, because we are still fighting an undeclared war against an organisation that is the De Facto army of South Lebanon and has representatives in the Lebanese Parliament and the way Israel is doing thing we should have declared Cassus Belli about the kidnapped soldiers and not gone in all Gung Ho into a country that traumatized us and fight an enemy we so severely underestimated.

So it's all snafu, but utterly and completely fubar.
And yeah, I'm angry, frustrated.
And still realistic... we have to fight... I don't want to... but I will.

*Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition
**Situation Normal, All Fucked Up.

[identity profile] gonzo21.livejournal.com 2006-08-11 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
At least your leader is still in the country, ours has gone off on a lovely holiday somewhere sunny.


Out of curiosity, where about were those two soldiers kidnapped originally?

[identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com 2006-08-11 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Aahhh, Barbedos...


They were patrolling the Northern border.

[identity profile] gonzo21.livejournal.com 2006-08-11 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Nation in a state of crisis, world politics threatening to boil over into regional conflict, people panicking, the government teetering on the edge of melt down, why what else do you do but go on holiday?

I don't think putting all politicians in a high security prison and never letting them out again would be the solution to all of the worlds problems, but I sometimes think it would be a good start.


Is it known if they were in Lebanon when they were kidnapped, or if they were still in Israel?

[identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com 2006-08-11 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
They were in Israel, the Hezbollah men infiltrated the country in order to perpetrate *something*, they ended up kidnapping.

[identity profile] gonzo21.livejournal.com 2006-08-11 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Rightie, thank you. I'd heard stories that they were in Israel when they were kidnapped, and stories that they were in Lebanon when they were kidnapped. Which, makes quite a big difference under international law. But nobody seemed to know for sure. I'm guessing you'd know.

[identity profile] hagar-972.livejournal.com 2006-08-12 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Out of curiousiry: which media had been claiming that they were in Lebanon?

[identity profile] gonzo21.livejournal.com 2006-08-12 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, it was a while ago, back when the crisis started. I can't remember. The story was circulating some UK news outlet, but... can't remember which one. Sorry.

[identity profile] gonzo21.livejournal.com 2006-08-11 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, and also:

*hug*

[identity profile] queenmab21.livejournal.com 2006-08-12 09:25 am (UTC)(link)
The situation sucks, i hope it will be over soon. And Olmert? Don't even let me start.

*Hugs and kisses*