Israel has decided 30 days of attacking just is not enough, and is gearing up for a second month of destruction.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has ordered the army to prepare to expand its ground offensive in Lebanon, Israeli officials have said.
There were two outcomes that Israel had to avoid at all cost. Number two would have been to make sure your actions did not arouse wide spread sympathy or support for Hezbollah.
They screwed that up royally. In the first week of the conflict the Arab states were quiet, and their local populations not real agitated. Now, after hundreds of civilian deaths, Hezbollah is again being viewed as heros.
The most important thing they had to do was to not lose.
They are quickly one their way to making sure they fail at this also. When combat first started, Israel needed about a week to 'win'. Condi Rice stalled the international talks to give them the time they wanted. When that week passed, they needed another week, maybe ten days, when that passed, they needed a couple more weeks.
Now Israel is ramping up it's invasion force, to make yet another push to 'win'. What happens next in this effort to win is anyone's guess.
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