Many Lebanese would be against the deaths of the Hezbollah fighters. It's not as simple as you paint it.

It also doesn't matter that Israel acted "with restraint". That's not the perception of many Lebanese.

And if they had not acted "with restraint"--you would have seen a real jihad in response.

And that would help nobody--including the Israelis.


It was a miscalculation--first by Hezbollah--but then also by the Israelis.

And now it's Catch-22. No strong multinational force until Hezbollah is disarmed. Hezbollah will not do that unless the Israelis leave Lebanon first--if then. The Israelis won't completely leave until Hezbollah is disarmed.

So--stalemate. Then the war resumes.