NY POST: ISRAEL'S MILITARY WOES GO DEEP. In an op-ed in The New York Post, senior correspondent in Israel for Defense News Barbara Opall-Rome writes:

But Israel's problems won't be fixed simply by putting in new faces. The true fathers of the Lebanon fiasco include every leader of the past generation.

Ironically, two of Israel's most respected warriors, Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon, are most to blame for creating the conditions that culminated in last summer's war. It's not for nothing that the Winograd panel began its probe from May 2000, with then-Prime Minister Barak's unilateral, overnight withdrawal from Lebanon and Hezbollah's provocative repositioning along Israel's northern border.

The soul searching has barely begun.

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