Israel just doesn't get Fourth Generation War.  It's been 35 years since the vaunted Israeli military won a military contest. In 2006, Hezbollah chased the Israelis out of Lebanon for the second time and has emerged politically and militarily stronger than before the invasion.

Once again, predictably and as predicted, Israel failed to achieve any of its war aims in the Gaza Offensive and emerges both internally and internationally weaker than before it launched its offensive

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Of the spending cuts the Gang of Nelson made, I challenge anyone to name one more ludicrous or counter-stimulative than the $40 Billion in state budget assistance.  What planet is he living on?  Whatever stimulative impact remains in the bill, a substantiall portion of it is being wiped out in state budget cuts right now, and the worst is yet to come as this in today's Los Angeles Times report from the Real World demonstrates

States' only option now is budget pain

Healthcare, parks, schools: Politicians' proposals to close budget gaps would hit where it hurts. Even zoo animals may not get a break.

Reporting from Atlanta and Las Vegas -- They have plundered reserves, enacted hiring freezes and engaged in all manner of budgetary voodoo to shield us from the pain.

But now state governments -- reeling from a historic free fall in tax revenue -- have run out of tricks. And Americans are about to feel it.