Lisa- A sidenote on your issues with media coverage of the war... In March, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government - hardly a "right wing" think tank - issued a report about media coverage of the Lebanon war. The report concluded that the media "partnered" with Hezbollah. You can find the report by doing a search in Google news for Harvard + Hezbollah. I know it won't change anything, but its interesting that note that the report has received no coverage here in america. On the contrary, the Walt-Mersheimer report on how the Zionist lobby controls everything, got covered in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, etc. On the actual war: I recently went to a joint Israel-American event in New York. There has been no proof of life of the kidnapped Israeli soldiers. Does Israel hold Hezbollah terrorists in prisons without saying whether or not they are alive or where they are? What are their motivations for capturing them? Were Hezbollah terrorists mounting attacks on the border, or was Israel just crossing over and snapping them up? I'm curious. I ask that without sarcasm - just to get a better understanding. Also, "breaking the sound barrier" over Lebanon...was that in response to the missile build up and rocket fire? Some journalists in America, arguing for Israeli restraint, mentioned that Israel had done this. It seems like a pretty tame reaction when rockets are regularly falling in your back yard, and responding by kidnapping soldiers and showering Haifa with missiles strikes me as a bit extreme. Again, maybe I'm wrong. I think that part of the problem here - for some of us across the ocean, anyway - is that we were subjected to a barrage of media coverage in the American press that painted Hezbollah as a benign militia and social services organization that is somehow the same as Israeli society. Moral equivalence was the rule of the day, not the exception.