This is a bad move and we are weaker because of it. Our p()ssy government should have helped Isreal defeat these scum bags. What happened to "either you are with us or against us"?
I think there are a lot of things that are in play here (aside from the fact that the "resolution" had been delayed by Bolton for weeks and that it is pretty toothless anyway).
One is that this was all a preliminary, testing skirmish. Ohlmert revealed himself to be too weak and vacillating for us to support fully, because, quite frankly, I think he would have let us down and made us look a lot worse if we had overtly committed and then he wimped out. I would suspect that Bush is a little disappointed in Ohlmert's performance, after Israel had been given the time and strategic materials to carry it off more thoroughly than it has.
Secondly, I think Hezbollah proved to be a lot better armed and more widely dispersed than anybody expected initially. I am sure we were watching their means for receiving their resupply shipments, who was sending them, etc.
Third, I think it indicates that the nutcase in Iran isn't quite ready to go yet; while he blustered, he really didn't do anything overtly, but limited himself to covertly supplying advisers and materiel to the Hezzies. It also revealed that other countries which may hate us, such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt, are more afraid of Iran than they are of us, and are even willing to support us rather than be taken over by Iran.
There are a lot of things going on here, and this is probably just one of the opening skirmishes in a war that we have to win - so therefore, we have to conduct it correctly and knowledgeably from the start.
That is indeed the prevailing school of thought, but perhaps it is the West that needs time to regroup, renegotiate alliances, and continue to unmask the islamicfascists such that no western civilized nation is in doubt of the enemy's intentions.
At this point in time of the conflict we still have way too many people who are in denial of what is at stake in the WOT. The enemy's tactics of simply wearing out our resolve seems to be working. Let us take a breath as well for now and refocus our efforts. Bush told us this fight would be going on long after he left office, so in the long struggle against an enemy so insidious such that they can confound a republic with their theocracy let us regather our will, our focus, and our future.