Shahar Ilan, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service: Ministers to inquiry: Olmert to blame for late Lebanon war push
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Title:The necessity of appearance
Name:Mark Lincoln
City: HoustonState: Texas
The late war push was wasteful of life and limb. But it was necessary to provide the government with a fig leaf of appearance. It could be argued, based upon the push to the Litani, that the war had not been lost.

The war he started to prove his manhood could not be allowed to prove his incompetence.

So good men died for the appearances of a bad one.