Israel is doing her part. I doubt they will let injured or killed soldiers and civies go unanswered in a MAJOR way. DEBKA, the ones who every body says is always wrong, and who often misses EXACT details, but hits the principles pretty close.... says Blair, Bush and Sharon settle final plans for dealing with Syria this weekend, and Israel is good to go.
God speed them if it is true. Syria needs a "burma shave" big time.
I think the best policy is to have the wider war. These people want us destroyed, so it's better for us to have the war now, with whatever losses we might sustain, than to "make peace" only to have it blow up 10 or 20 years from now when a lot of these enemies may be far more powerful (and may have made allegiences with North Korea, China, etc.) and could cause a true WIII with an order of magnitude more American casualties, both military and civilian.
Democracy and Islamism are fundamentally incompatible. And while American democracy can live with Islamism, Islamism cannot live with us. One of its central tenets is to destroy all that is not Islamist. Thus, Islamism must be destroyed.
(Note that Islamism != Islam the religion.)
Of course, thanks to X-42 we may not be militarily prepared for a wider war right now; only the Bush Administration and the Pentagon know that for sure.