In the summer of 2006, Israel waged savage if ultimately unsuccessful war on Lebanon to get its two captured soldiers back (while Obama led the cheer leading section, its worth adding). It failed. It was forced to recognize, yet again, that there are clear and absolute limits to the kind of power that "flows from the barrel of a gun." Israel, once seen as nearly omnipotent in the face of its Arab neighbors, faced military defeat at the hands of Hizballah for the second time in less than seven years.
Well Israel got the bodies of its soldiers back, but not under the conditions of its own choosing. This is what it looks like when Empires fall.
Here are the coffins of Arab bodies that Israel was forced to hand over to Nasrallah:
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