Victor Davis Hanson says that the present Israeli-Hezbollah-Hamas war is different from past mideast conflicts. This time public opinion in the western world - particularly in the G8 and the UN - is on Israel's side:
The only difference from the usual scripted Middle East war is that this time, privately at least, most of the West, and perhaps some in the Arab world as well, want Israel to wipe out Hezbollah, and perhaps hit Syria or Iran . The terrorists and their sponsors know this, and rage accordingly when their military impotence is revealed to a global audience — especially after no reprieve is forthcoming to save their “pride” and “honor.”I think there is even more to this than just a simple hands-off attitude. Over the last several years the United States has methodically surrounded Iran:
And Syria can't be too comfortable either:
The other countries in the region are getting sick and tired of the terrorism too. Look at the reaction to the bombings in Egypt and Jordan in the last year. The war in Lebanon is merely a battle in a larger war, as were the battles in Iraq and in Afghanistan. These critical battles have set up an endgame where the United States can sweep into Iran and Syria from bases in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the Israelis can wipe out Hezbollah and Hamas and free Lebanon, on Syria's southern border. It might take a few years, or it might take only a few more months or weeks, but for both Iran and Syria their entire government power structures now have a limited shelf-life. It is limited only by the United States' decisions about the timing.
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