It’s hard to count the myriad ways in which Richard Cohen just doesn’t get it. Disproportionality is indeed the correct way for Israel to create deterrence. But that isn’t the criticism. The criticism is that Israel just started a fight they cannot win. Now they are saying they will occupy a zone of Lebanon until some international group shows up to take over. Good luck. I have my doubts that any international force will be showing up any time soon. You should have thought of that before you overreacted. Now you have Lebanon: Take Two. Yglesias nails it.
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