This is what the jihadists count on...the world community will immediately demand an end to conflict as soon as one side (especially Israel) dominates the terrain.
We're always told how---after the Beirut, Cole and Mogadishu disasters---the islamofascists concluded we wouldn't fight.
But I've always believed there was a more relevant and significant incident that gave them solace. Remember the "Highway of Death" at the end of the Persian Gulf War? We had Saddam's Republican Guard bottled up on the highway out of Kuwait. Our pilots were picking them off like fish in a barrel. It would have taken only a couple of days to eliminate them entirely.
But Bush the elder anticipated the world's horror at such a show of force and knew there would be condemnations---even though no Iraqi surrender had been tendered. At best, the world will only tolerate U.S. and Israeli power as long as we're losing or at a draw. As soon as it's clear we're dominating (and on the verge of destroying the threat), then the world says it must stop.
The jihadists reasonably concluded the world will always step in to save them from a total loss. And they were right...up til now. Though such mutterings are heard this time, there's really no heart behind the demands that Israel restrain its attacks. The jihadists are now realizing, too late, that the appeasers have run out of moral authority. Unlike Papa Bush, I think the IDF intends to shoot all those fish in the barrel...once and for all. And the appeasers will privately cheer.
When even Hillary Clinton is on record as saying yesterday that Israel has a right to defend herself, I think the jihadists can't count on the appeasers this time.
That's what Israel is doing, moron, taking out the destablizing terrorist known as Hezbollah.