Over at the Belmont Club, Wretchard notes, in the comment section,
"The Jews are no longer at the center of this problem. Events in Mumbai, Chechnya, Bosnia, Thailand, Bali, the Philippines and Denmark have nothing more to do with Israel. They have everything to do with what Paul Sheehan called the three strains: Wahabism, Iranian radical Islamism and Pakistani-Islamic nationalism. We may argue whether it is just those three. But the point is that the world crisis is no longer about Israel's existence."
http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2006/07/dark-crossroads.html
Because of the shiftings, there is space for some of these players to tell Hezbollah, they are fools and wrong. The war is still against radical Islam, but Israel is not the end all and be all of what global islamofascism is after. Its just a useful rallying tool. Some of nations dealing with this have other fish they would rather fry right this minute.
Not to say, that if things escalate beyond Israel/Lebanon they won't close ranks, though.
Has anyone posted a comment on Maj. Bevalacqua/Fox News about a half hour ago who severly criticized Israel for bombing so much of Lebanon? He said they didn't even bomb the terrorist training camp until today--before which, his sources tell him, the terrorists had already removed everything. In other words, they bombed an empty building. Comments?
I said on another thread that the two real wild cards in this are Iran and Pakistan. It appears that Musharaff's control of the Pakistani government is not that good, and that Pakistani intelligence was involved with the bombings in India. A nuclear war between India and Pakistan is much closer than a similar between Iran and anyone else. Neither country is directly involved in the Israeli war.
The real interesting thing is if India did go to war with Pakistan, we would be in a situation were we might have to deal with two allies attacking each other.