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Theirs is a culture in which winning is cutting the deal and the politician's concept of a strategic defeat--to fail now so you can triumph later--is just money wasted.
In so doing, he forced Israel to fight a regional foe as if it were a local street gang and so rendered the ultimate result of that war - Israel's first strategic military defeat - a foregone conclusion.