and what stands in the way of the war going to completion - is the pressure put by the world media and the UN, to stop it. and the PR helps hezbollah, which is why they exploit it.
While we are waiting patiently for the rockets to start falling (or not) maybe someone can answer the question that has been bugging me for some time:
What the heck is this "pressure" that the "world community" is putting on George Bush? Just how does the "world community" exercise their supposed power to tell us anything. Take the French (please - as the old joke goes). What do we care what the French think? Ditto Kofi and the rest of the UN? I don't get it. There is nothing they can actually do to put any real pressure on us. They can't hate us any more than they already do so that's not it. It's the sticks and stones thing. I don't see how they can break any U.S. bones.
But I have a candidate answer: I think the pressure is that they will ignore us at U.N. and State Department cocktail parties and we will feel left out. That's the only thing I can think of.