"Anyone have the figures of comparison?"
Sort of ( I have seen & linked to them long ago, can't locate it now )-- from the CIA Factbook ( a good link to save ):
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/is.html Population:
6,352,117
United States: 298,444,215 (July 2006 est.)
Roughly 43 to 1
Pray for Israel. I really mean it- they are the canary in our coal mine.
It ticks me off. We're at war with Syria and Iran too, but nobody dare admit it. If we sent a division into Syria on the west and another into Iran on the northeast that might make them a little too busy to be so mischeivous in Lebanon.