Ceasefire only a mirage ... Qana-like carnage continues!

Isn't war beautiful? Just look at the lines on that F-16!

Well, my previous posting got it wrong ... or maybe 100% correct! It appears that there will be no ceasefire for now and that Condoleezza Rice will be elsewhere than in Jerusalem for awhile. Rather than letting the war "wind down" for a couple of days, the Israeli Security Cabinet approved broadening the ground offensive and rejected a ceasefire, at least until an international "peace force" is in place.

Of course, the Lebanese are fleeing north in every vehicle that is even 50% mobile as the Israelis are vowing to destroy every Hezbollah position in southern Lebanon.

And, just as our invasion of Iraq provided a rallying cry for an increased Al-Qaida involvement in Iraq (and elsewhere in the Middle East) among Sunnis, the Qana attack of two days ago has become a rallying cry for the Hezbollah among Shiites everywhere.

The massacre in Qana may well be the turning point (not necessarily a good one from our vantage) in the Israeli-Lebanon War of 2006.

Oh yes, there will be a 48-hour suspension of air operations (it began 18 hours ago) over southern Lebanon while the Lebanese clean up the mess in Qana and flee northward in buses, minivans, trucks, cars and anything else that can hold these sad people and their belongings.


Yeh, isn't war just beautiful ... ?