It is more and more apparent that this sad affair, Hezbollah (aided and abetted by Lebanese complicity and impotence, Syrian and Irani supplies versus Israel and American political and military support, is a harbinger of much larger issues. We are already begun on WWIII, whatever it ultimately gets called. The overall combatants are those who exist in, represent, and believe in, the Open Society, against those who believe in absolute authority, be it religist or racist. The determination of how far this war will go and who will win will ultimately be the Muslims as an entity.
Thrown into the mix is the movement for one world, this day economic and tomorrow political.
The big plus for Bush and Blair is that whatever words they use they basically recognize the importance of staking a claim right now and not letting the situation get any worse. Unfortunately, the Americans, as is customary, are politically quite dense at dealing with the outside world. But the rest of the world is much more dense in thinking that if they ignore the problem it will go away. It will not go away.