Was I right about Gaza?

It's certainly looking so based on the recent news reports. Everyone is now saying the Gaza operation didn't achieve very much. Hamas have already started to rearm, the international assurances are worthless and Hamas are declaring victory. The whole thing was a political ploy by Olmert and Livni to show how tough they can be, and even that didn't achieve its goals, since recent polls suggest that Netanyahu gained more from the whole thing than Livni did. The people in the South aren't happy either. It's no big chiddush to bomb a defenceless population with smart bombs, the chiddush would have been to take out Hamas, but Israel didn't get anywhere near that goal, they didn't even engage. A complete waste of time, which only achieved international condemnation of Israel, more hatred, a strong possibility of revenge attacks, war crimes allegations and possible trials, and of course the deaths of hundreds of innocent children.  Oh yeah, I can already hear the reponse of the Zionfanatics - 'Well, we had to do something'. Yeah, good job guys, you really did do something.