Israel made a similar mistake in thinking that it could use its enormous margin of conventional military power to destroy Hezbollah in last summer’s Lebanon War. Both Israel and the US are nostalgic for a twentieth-century world of nation-states, which is understandable, since that is the world to which the kind of conventional power they possess is best suited.
在认为能够利用强大的常规军事力量在去年夏天的黎巴嫩战争中摧毁真主党的问题上，以色列也犯下了类似的错误。以色列和美国都非常怀念21世纪的民族国家世界，它们有这样的想法顺理成章，因为在那个世界里，它们所拥有的传统力量最容易发挥作用。