Israel blindsided by the US?

My old yeshiva colleague David Makovsky has read more of the final Winograd Committee report than I have. He has an article on the Washington Institute's web site in which he describes the decision-making process for the final ground assault to reach the Litani River in August 2006 and explains how the decision to proceed with too little time was the result of Israel being 'blind-sided' by the US