The AP reports that Israel is considering an expansion of their military campaign:
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel’s Security Cabinet convened Wednesday to likely approve a broader ground offensive in Lebanon, with key ministers arguing that the military must deal more blows to Hezbollah and score quick battlefield victories before a Mideast cease-fire is imposed. Meanwhile, more Hezbollah rockets were fired at northern Israeli towns, bringing the total during the conflict to 3,333, police said.
Hezbollah guerrillas fired more 100 rockets at Israeli towns, including several medium-range missiles that landed near the West Bank town of Jenin and south of the Israeli city of Afula, police said.
At the same time, diplomatic efforts to end the fighting seem headed no place. How is a "ceasefire" enforced? Who stops Hezbollah’s current rocket campaign? How does one insert a "peacekeeping" force in this area? Who? Who can go and not get shot at by Hezbollah? Can you send an Arab force? Syria? Iran? They’d still attack the Israelis. Who? What if Hezbollah doesn’t want to stop? Would they fight a Lebanese force? The French? Who? Do the peacekeepers end up having to shoot to kill the Hezboullah? How does that differ from what’s happening right now?
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These are the questions that the "diplomats" cannot find answers to because there really aren’t any- save for total victory by one side over another.
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I have a solution that would cure everything- it would eliminate Hezbollah and clear the way for "peacekeepers": A good, ‘ole-fashioned B52 carpetbombing. That’s right- what better way to "tenderize" an 18 mile-wide strip along the border, eliminating 25 years worth of bunkers along with the terrorists in preparation for the "peacekeepers"? Just like the infamous "highway of death" leading from Kuwait to Baghdad, the entire stretch filled with the enemy can be properly dealt with in a quick and effective manner. Heck, the peacekeepers could probably enter unarmed given the likelyhood of few survivors.
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Civilian casualties? Come on… there really are no innocents living in this area. Somebody gives birth to Hezbollah "fighters." Somebody feeds and houses them. The people in this area ARE the Hezbollah.
