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Ah Skybird, doesn't this remind you of that time I said the USA would self-destruct like Europe?

You might still hold old-fashioned or theoretical views on the US. But Rice cannot go against the will of the people, and when all the militancy is in favour of the Hizbollah, when everybody is shocked and indignant and demands peace, policy follows through. Take the best example: war. Many did not want to join WW2, but then Pearl Harbor happened and all the talk and discussion ceased. Landon and Roosevelt started speaking the same language. Afghanistan and Iraq were only possible because of 9/11. And of course, you have this Israeli-Hizbollah war which smells like Vietnam.

What does the UN think Israel should do? React proportionally? Does that mean if the Hizbollah kills eight soldiers and kidnaps two Israel should do the same to them? So the Hizbollah will dictate the terms of the war?

Have you noticed by the last attack on Haifa, that even with all this heavy bombing the attacking power of the enemy has not yet been eliminated? The Lebanese government, now in the hands of the Hizbollah, will only accept a cease-fire if Israel immediately exits the country. Lebanon doesn't exist anymore, it has suffered a militaristic Coup d'èta and is now under control of the homicidal militia, seeing how the Hizbollah dictates the terms. Their objective being the complete destruction of their neighbor state.

But of course, America is shocked with Israel. Lebanese children do need protection, but so does the Israeli, and both mainly so from the hands of the Hizbollah which recruits 13 year olds! For the sake of the children from both sides of the border, the Hizbollah must be destroyed.

Their ambition is to one day be strong enough to wipe Israel off the map, which is also the ambition of the Iranian Ayatollah. A cease-fire which doesn't provide the destruction of the Hizbollah will only buy them time to fulfil their ambition.