Peretz: Lebanon War was missed opportunity, but was necessary [View All]

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This reminds me of the establishment argument here about Iraq: "We did the right thing, it was just done incompetently, and by other people (not me!). This also agrees with Avnery's take on what the spin would be: "what we did didn't work, so we need to do more of it".

Oh yeah, and :rofl::rofl:

The Second Lebanon War was a missed opportunity, but the decision to go into it was correct, former defense minister Amir Peretz said on Thursday, following publication of the Winograd Committee's final report.

"I agree with Winograd that the war was a grave and large missed opportunity, but for a missed opportunity to be created, there needs to be a reality that is being missed," he told reporters.

"There is no doubt that the decision to go to war was correct," he said.
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"It is clear that the decision to open the war is the central issue," he added. "Politicians and military men praised the brave decision to go to war and now suddenly from every direction are voices saying the decision to go to war was hasty, undirected."

Peretz, who served as defense minister during the war, was replaced by Ehud Barak in mid-2007 when the latter won the Labor Party leadership.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/950033.html