Olmert’s Continuing Lebanon Delusions

Olmert Says Lebanon War Was a Success, by Ronny Sofer (Ynet)

For context on some of the glaring failures last summer’s Lebanon action, click here, here and here.

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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Thursday evening that the second Lebanon war was a success.

Olmert spoke at a meeting with the Israel Defense Forces General Staff members, where he heard the lessons drawn from the war and praised Resigning Chief of Staff Dan Halutz .

The major conclusions and findings of the various teams that investigated the failures of the war were presented to the prime minister at the meeting. Former IDF Chief of Staff Dan Shomron, who examined the work of the General Staff, came to the meeting to present its actions during the war.

According to Olmert, “There were successes during the war, but there were also failures from which we must draw lessons and work to fix them so that they don’t repeat themselves.

“If someone had said on July 11 that in half a year southern Lebanon would Hezbollah free, without one Hezbollah member sitting on the border, and that not one border incident would take place and that an army of 15,000 people would sit there, including the Lebanon army, he would have been deemed crazy.”