Dman — you got another war. It isn’t so obvious this time, but we, the U

Tried to preview and got the above mess — sorry.

Chris — be careful out there. As we know, Lebanon was a nice country for awhile. Now the US taxpayers are, once again, paying for the eradication of that pleasant mix.

Watch out Granny, Here comes Israel!

“Gunfire and shelling also killed a 75-year-old woman and wounded 10 others, including a baby[italics definitely added],” Aljazeera is reporting.

WTF?!.. I thought Israel was supposed to be the good guy!

Chris, If all of this wasn’t so sad, it might just rise to pathetic. “W’s” adventure in Iraq may have been a fools errand at the beginning, but now it looks to be catastrophic. It is too bad that will all of the upheaval in the world today that we have a man for President who obviously did not graduate from the top of his class at Yale. All I can do is hope that this turns out better than my instincts tell me.

if you are lucky, Israel will weaken Hezzbollah enough so that the supporters of the cedar revolution will end up with the lion’s share of power. If this finishes without a weakened Hezz, then I fear they will turn their next efforts towards consolidating power through civil war. I think the time has come to expunge the hate-mongers so that Lebanon can move forward into peace. The path of Hezzbullah will only bring the misery of Palestine into the borders of Lebanon. When you throw rocks at a doberman, it will often attack.

I think the time has come to expunge the hate-mongers so that Lebanon can move forward into peace.

You mean like when the PLO was expelled in ‘82?

I’m no fan of Hezbollah, but somehow the logic of “they’ll stop hating us if we crush them militarily enough times” doesn’t seem to be working out so well. I wonder why not.

There seems to be a curent running through some of the posts here (Not Chris’) which implies that Lebanon and Hizbollah share the same agenda in all this. Let’s see what the Lebanese have to say…according to an article on Aljazeera.net some politicians (and civilians)have expressed doubt about or condemned Hezbollah’s cross-border raid on Wednesday.

Michel Aoun, a member of parliament who leads the Free Patriotic Movement, called the raid a “pure military action” but also condemned Israel’s retaliatory attacks on civilian targets.

“The priority now is to stop military operations and move towards a solution through negotiations”

Walid Jumblatt, a Druze leader who opposed Aoun’s arrangement with Hezbollah, called the group’s raid an “outrageous” way to drag the country into war and said it was symptomatic of regional power-plays. “Iran and Syria are unfortunately using Lebanon as their proxy, and this is unacceptable,” he said. Ramzi Salha, a travel agent, says: “Whatever the agenda of Hezbollah is, it is not necessarily the agenda of the Lebanese people.

“They have not been designated by the Lebanese people to decide what is best for the country.”