中东地区的战争，尤其是像以色列最近与真主党的那些没有最终结果的战争，几乎总是会给重大的政治突破创造条件，因为它们使作战的各方认识到了能力的局限性。
Wars in the Middle East, especially those , such as Israel’s recent war against Hezbollah, that ended inconclusively, have almost invariably created the conditions for major political breakthroughs, because they taught the warring parties the limits of power.