Steve Clemons has the scoop on Condi's travails with her counterparts in Israel, and he has some advice for the president.
There are so many questions that the conflagration in the Middle East raises, but chief among them, I think, is whether Israel is using the kidnapping of two of its soldiers as an excuse to mount all-out war on three enemies it dearly wants to take out: the governments of Syria, Iran and the Palestinian authority, with the bombardment of Lebanon (could re-occupation be far off???) as a pretext for wider (U.S.-assisted?) war. Israel doesn't exactly have an international reputation for equanimity (except in the U.S., where our politicans are well bought and paid for by AIPAC), and where our veto-shield flies over Israel at the U.N. ...
Updates on what's happening can be found on MSNBC.com.
Lebanon is reportedly seeking a cease-fire with Israel. I'll bet any money it won't happen.
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