Success and failure in any military operation is based upon the ability of an action to achieve it's objectives, Israel set out almost a month ago to degrade and destroy Hezbollah, get back it’s soldiers, and kill Hassan Nasrallah. In every objective it set it has failed abysmally, Israeli officials speak of degrading the infrastructure of Hezbollah. But the infrastructure of Hezbollah remains largely intact, the ability of Hezbollah to continue fighting is a testament to the resiliency of the organization. Hezbollah will not be pushed back to the Litani River for at least a month, and as Hezbollah is pushed north Israel’s supply lines will grow longer as Hezbollah supply lines grow shorter. Israel will have more land it has to defend and Hezbollah will be able to concentrate it’s efforts.

After over a week of watching and waiting, I’ve thought long and hard about where this war will go, and I don‘t like what I am seeing. And for the first time I find myself in open disagreement with General Clark unless as I hope I have misunderstood his position on what Israel is doing. Though I know our General is the last person who would criticize citizens expressing dissent. But to tell the truth... Kofi Annan is right, the fighting has to stop.. right now. Personally I just don’t think the Israeli targeting system is as effective as many believe it to be.

Hezbollah has proven to be a far more effective organization than anyone had predicted. Israel’s attack is having the opposite effect it intended. Instead of weakening Hezbollah the Israeli’s have failed fundamentally to understand the methods and motivation’s of Hezbollah. The Israeli's air campaign by targeting Lebanese infrastructure is moving the Lebanese people and to some extent even the government into the sphere of Hezbollah.