Betrayed (again)

Once again we have been betrayed by our leaders.  I feel like Charlie Brown who gets fooled by Lucy every time, and instead of kicking the football, ends up flying through the air and landing flat on his back.

I shouldn't be surprised.  We're talking about the same incompetent leadership that sent our sons into Lebanon with lofty goals; to return the kidnapped soldiers, to push Hezbullah back at least to the Litani River and deal them so serious a blow that they would be unable to threaten the north of Israel for years or even decades to come.  But for all those lofty goals, they sent our young men into battle without a plan, and allowed them to die by the dozens while wandering aimlessly around southern Lebanon while the politicians dithered.

Now the same idiots have done it again.  They embarked upon a worthy quest; to stop the ceaseless rocket and mortar fire on Sderot and the other Gaza Belt communities.  But again they had no plan... no end game nor exit strategy... and certainly no plan for victory. 

Once again they sent our soldiers into harm's way while still arguing among themselves as to what exactly they hoped to accomplish, much less how.

Now with our young men deep in Gaza, our feckless leaders have  announced a unilateral cease fire... but one which will leave our soldiers in place, exposed like sitting ducks.  Predictably, Hamas' response has been to continue firing rockets at us.

So let's review, shall we?:

Instead of stopping the rocket fire from Gaza, we succeeded in bringing a much larger swath of our country under the shadow of Hamas' missiles.

Instead of unseating or disarming Hamas, we have boosted their prestige in much the same way we boosted Hezbullah's.  State sponsors will be lining up to re-arm and bankroll them.

Instead of getting Gilad Shalit back, we got news reports that we may very well have killed him in one of our air-strikes (we'll probably never know).

Olmert, Livni and Barak have announced that all of Operation Cast Lead's goals were met.   But unless the goals included completely eliminating Israel's deterrence, making us a pariah in the eyes of the international community and getting a bunch of Israeli soldiers killed and wounded in the process, I can't think of a single thing they accomplished.

I can only hope and pray that these serial imbeciles and their parties will be punished at the polls in the upcoming elections.