Posted by
Icarus on Wednesday, April 08, 2009 12:23:08 PM
That is what you would think when you read this story's headline: "
US Studies Hezbollah to Prepare Troops". Reading the article puts a very different spin on the story and should have led to a very different headline.
The story's third and fourth paragraphs give a much better picture than does the ignorant headline:
With the US military engaged in counter insurgency battles in Iraq
and Afghanistan, concerns have been raised that it is no longer
prepared to effectively fight enemies using conventional tactics.
To counter this, the newspaper reported, the US has sent more than a
dozen teams to Israel to interview military officers who fought against
Hezbollah in 2006 to glean as much information about their tactics as
possible.
American Military leaders are not studying Hezbollah as much as they are studying Israeli tactics in that nation's fight against Hezbollah. This article's headline continues the fiction that Hezbollah was militarily successful in 2006. In fact, Hezbollah suffered major losses when Israel decided to fight back, and the only thing that kept Hezbollah vermin alive to fight another day was interference from Islamo-Nazi appeasing bureaucrats in Europe and the American State Department.
Of course, no headline writer, trained at an "elite" college or university journalism program, would have been caught dead writing more truthful headline such as, "US Studies Israeli Military to Prepare Troops".