Can’t somebody wake up Ariel Sharon? Are they sure they've tried everything? What about blasting Barry Manilow records at him?
Never thought I’d miss the old lug, but boy, think of all the people who would still be alive if he were healthy.
Sharon had the experience and wisdom not to be suckered into a full fledged war over such a mundane incident*. Aren’t the current generals, those who are directing this war, the same guys who served under Sharon? Or has there been a change in the upper echelons of the IDF? If they are the same, then why have they lost their senses? Maybe they were always itching for a confrontation, but they couldn’t browbeat Sharon. He’d been through enough of that in Lebanon already. Just the fact that he was an old tired man with no interest in leading his country into yet another war might’ve been enough for him to firmly put the brakes on his guys.
There might’ve been a few shots here, a few rockets there, and then Sharon would’ve privately sat down with the enemy and hammered out a prisoner exchange. That would’ve been the end of it. It would have been page A-17 stuff and the rest of us wouldn’t even have cared.
*Yeah, I'm pretending this conflict has ANYTHING to do with kidnapped soldiers. I am so three weeks ago!
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