Our sources tell us that Israel does not intend to bring about a broader conflict by extending the present crisis to Syria or Iran. Rather, the plan is to retrieve the soldiers who have been taken prisoner in both Gaza and Lebanon, do some damage to the terrorists' ability to carry out rocket attacks from those bases, and return home. If that's right, and events don't take an unforeseen turn, the effect will most likely be that the long-term issues posed by Iran, Syria, the Iran-Syria alliance, and Iran and Syria's control over terrorist groups including Hamas and Hezbollah, will go unresolved.
Got that? "Will go unresolved." Not "may go unresolved," or even "mostly likely will go unresolved. To Powerline, there is only one way resolve "the long-term issues posed by Iran, Syria, the Iran-Syria alliance, and Iran and Syria's control over terrorist groups including Hamas and Hezbollah," and that is WAR, BABY!
You can almost taste their disappointment as they type "Israel does not intend to bring about a broader conflict." They had the champaign already chilled, and the lube and the "chicks with guns" magazine all laid out....
UPDATE: No casualties in Haifa. One poor Israeli woman did get blown to bits while sipping coffee on her balcony, however, and hundreds of Lebanese people (who had just started to think they were in control of their destiny) have been killed by Israel.
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