[Chris Alger]

They bombed the tarmac and bombed it again after repairs. They bombed roads, bridges, factories, apartments, houses, fuel supplies and all manner of vehicles, even ambulances. They told civilians to flee and them bombed them when they did. They flattened entire villages. They bombed civilian targets so deliberately and indiscriminately -- the overwhelming majority of Israeli-caused casualties are civilians -- that the UN's high commissioner (Canadian) warned that Israeli leaders were facing personal criminal responsibility.

Israel has no intention of committing the amount of forces necessary to defeat and disarm Hizballah; they're on the verge of admitting as much. But it has plenty enough firepower to punish millios of Lebanonese for living in the country where Hizballah exists.