After repeated promises, more Israelis are beginning to realize that Netanyahu has no strategy for war – because war itself is the strategy
“Every war is ironic,” wrote historian Paul Fussell, “because every war is worse than expected.” Fussell, who fought and was wounded in World War II, meant a tragic irony, based on the gap between the expectations of the victim of irony and reality. Between war as it is imagined before it begins – swift, clean, leading to a historic victory – and war as it later unfolds: long, bloody, and above all, very stupid.