Israel plans short offensive...

...good luck with that.

Hezbollah continued their bombardment of Israel today, killing one person in the town of Nahariya and destroying buildings in Haifa.

However there is promising news on the diplomatic front. From MSNBC.com:

"Earlier on Tuesday, Israel's deputy army chief estimated that an offensive against Hezbollah would end within a few weeks.

"We will not take months," Israel's deputy army chief, Major-General Moshe Kaplinsky, told Army Radio.

"We need more time to complete our very clear goals. When we fight terror it is a war that needs to be very accurate, very schematic and it takes time."

Meantime, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said the time for diplomacy was at hand, though she added that Israel's military operations would not end until its goals are reached."

Seems like this basically means, "we'll have peace, after we've blown them to kingdom come." This is the sorta rhetoric that gets Kristol and Wolfiwitz sweating with anticipation--pure neo-conservatism. I've said it once, I'll say it again. The war against terror is a war of conscious and wars of conscious cannot be won at the barrel of a gun. Of course this is different when it comes from Israel versus the United States. Truly, living on the border against the very people who want to see you destroyed breeds this type of vindictive attitude. And yet, someone said that with great power comes great responsibility. The time for diplomacy is at hand, but the longer Israeli military strikes continue, especially against civilian targets, the harder it will be to achieve true peace in the region. My continuing flustration and cynicism stems from the reality that no one wants peace, only annihilation.

I don't even know why I post this stuff anymore. My mental state would be better served writing about Brittney and K-Fed.