When such a moment arrived, totally out of the blue (or so it seemed) with Hezbollah’s raid on July 12, 2006, Israel’s two top politicians were completely out of their depth, stumbling into a war for which neither they nor the Israeli Army were prepared. The military was led – for the first time in its history – by an Air Force general, Dan Halutz, who believed that everything could be solved by air power, creating a combustible combination of civilian ignorance and military arrogance.
当这一时刻来临之际，也就是2006年7月12日真主党完全出乎意料地（或者看起来如此）发动袭击的时候，以色列两位最高的政治人物完全不知所措，匆忙之中应战，他们本人以及以色列陆军都没有做好准备。在历史上第一次，以色列军队由一名空军将军哈卢茨领导。他相信空中力量可以解决一切问题，从而造成文职领导人的无知以及军队的傲慢。二者结合就导致局势极度危机。