Won't End Well III

Dig around the site for versions I and II on this subject, I'm too lazy to link to them. However, I thought this post by Marc Lynch summed up what my problem with the whole Israel/Gaza/Hamas fiasco.

It was a profoundly dismaying experience. Because if Ambassador Meridor is taken at his word, then Israel has no strategy in Gaza.

Asked three times by audience members, Meridor simply could not offer any plausible explanation as to how its military campaign in Gaza would achieve its stated goals.

The military campaign by Israel in Gaza is looking more and more like our little trip into Iraq. We picked out our bad guys, bombed them, but had no plan for the end game. We disbanded the Iraqi army because we lacked any sort of plan for post military action. We misspent and just plain lost tons of money because we lacked any sort of plan for post military action. We appointed unqualified political hacks to key reconstruction posts because we lacked any sort of plan for post military action. And it certainly looks and sounds as if Israel has no plan for post military action.