Reality hits

Israeli misgivings about Olmert's and Peretz's grandstanding:

It is doubtful that Olmert and Peretz, even in their worst nightmares, ever envisioned this spontaneous operation extending and transforming into the longest war to which the Israeli home front has been exposed since the War of Independence (not counting the terror attacks). But the enchanting myth of a "speedy, strong and elegant" IDF that "supplies the goods" within two or three days is blowing up in their faces, just as it blew up in the faces of their predecessors.

The article raises the big question: would Ariel Sharon have done this?