[Ninian Dryhope]

"As such, it is unlikely to be bombed out of existence."

Wrong.

One simply has to bomb until one has killed a massive portion of the Lebanese people. They are very hard headed, but if they are dead, they will no longer be a problem for us or Israel. If our positions were reversed, they would kill all of us in a heartbeat, therefore, we need to be at least as ruthless as they are to defeat them.

[JasonC]

Let's see.

1 million Algerian dead.

2 million Vietnamese dead.

1 million Iranian dead.

Nope, doesn't remotely stop any of it. Tyrants don't care how many bodies a policy costs.

War we always have with us. Ruthlessness doesn't make it go away. We can win any of them (we are winning in Iraq easily), but we can't get out of a single one.

And if the American people decide that they will only count as a victory, the absence of any war whatever, anywhere, no matter how lopsidedly won - then they condemn themselves to defeat, endlessly. Because the least little two bit militia in Somalia can manage that much. No matter how many times you've made the rubble bounce.