The two flags on the bottom of the right side are those of the UK and the US. They join Israel in not recommending an immediate cease-fire.
A BBC correspondent, Jim Muir, has been covering Lebanon for more than thirty years. His two articles do not support the current actions of the US and he offers a number of reasons why we are making what may turn our to be an error worse than attacking Iraq. Read the first article and then the second.
And then, according to the NY Times, you have the Arab leaders who had denounced Hezbollah backtracking in light of the continued hostilities. Israel and the US bet that Hezbollah would crack quickly. That does not appear to be happening. The wise man re-thinks his strategy.
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Jim Muir's articles hit the spot. His comparisons with the wars of the 70's and 80's are absolutely correct, in my opinion. Neither Israel, nor the US - or anyone else, for that matter - can ever destroy Hezbullah because there will always be young men ready to fight Israel and the West. Their ranks are swelled daily by comments such as those from the mouth of Condoleeza Rice recently, "a new Middle East" and "we will prevail." Such arrogance from a representative of the president brands all Americans with similar arrogance in Arab eyes. That Blair and Bush believed Israel could defeat Hezbullah indicates the lack of competence displayed by both in their handling of the situation. Bush's tactic of solving every problem by military force exposes his total inability to act diplomatically. Like a schoolyard bully his only asset is belligerence, and his legacy to the American people will surely be more attacks like 9/11.
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