With ceasefire holding, Home Front Command eases restrictions in northern Israel

[Beastly Boy]

14. You never disappoint!

Evacuation and control of terrain. No difference, right? Never mind that it is the military that controls the terrain. Israeli military. You know, the Israeli military that ordered the evacuation of civilians. Because they are in control. Not Hezbollah military, who never ordered as much as a slice of pizza in Israel. Ever. And what happened since the strike? Did Hezbollah lose control of Israel's north that they never had?

Of course, you are fully aware that I never suggested that an offensive military operation, like a single strike of a single target, ceases to be one if its goal is not achieved. But it is pointless to conduct one, as you pointed out, if a goal is not articulated. What you failed to grasp, even with the help of my analogy, that the two are not synonymous: the former is the process that describes the goals, and the latter is one of the instruments, among many, to facilitate them.

Pretty simple indeed, unless one is inclined to ignore the simplicity of it in favor of making stuff up.