For those of you looking for a little anti-RMA/transformation shadenfreude look no further than this acerbic and quite accurate comment from Col. Lang.

The IAF and its associated heavy artillery simply lacks the weight of fire needed to drive this enemy from its prepared positions in the stony ground of South Lebanon. The actual ground maneuver attempted thus far is a joke and typical of the role imagined by "Air Power" advocates for ground forces. "Maroun al-Ras" is a tiny village less than a mile from the Israeli border, and no amount of fancy graphics on TV "gushed" over by retired generals can alter the fact that its capture is an insignificant achievement that has had and will have no effect on the amount of fire going into northern Israel.

PNAC meets RMA enthusiasts meets reality? Who knew?

Tragedy always results when people believe their own lies.

There is also the ocassional irony too:

An international force that will fight Hizballah in the south to disarm it is a pipe dream. Who will do that? The only realistic candidate would be France in terms of military capacity. This would be a major irony of history.

Axis of weasels indeed.