http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/18/AR2006071801379.htmlThe road to a solution is therefore clear: Israel liberates south Lebanon and gives it back to the Lebanese.
It starts by preparing the ground with air power, just as the Persian Gulf War began with a 40-day air campaign. But if all that happens is the air campaign, the result will be failure. Hezbollah will remain in place, Israel will remain under the gun, Lebanon will remain divided and unfree. And this war will start again at a time of Hezbollah and Iran's choosing.
Just as in Kuwait in 1991, what must follow the air campaign is a land invasion to clear the ground and expel the occupier. Israel must retake south Lebanon and expel Hezbollah. It would then declare the obvious: that it has no claim to Lebanese territory and is prepared to withdraw and hand south Lebanon over to the Lebanese army (augmented perhaps by an international force), thus finally bringing about what the world has demanded -- implementation of Resolution 1559 and restoration of south Lebanon to Lebanese sovereignty.
My Comment: Just how stupid are these guys? Do they honestly think that Hezbollah will just vanish if driven north? Do they think that by driving the IDF into south Lebanon that somehow the people living in Lebanon will greet them as "liberators"? And do they think that Hezbollah won't return once they leave and hand the region back to Lebanon? The whole mode of action by Hezbollah and other grups like it is to attack and then retreat back, avoiding direct head to head battles that they know they will lose. This has been proven to be a winning tactic from Algiers to Vietnam. What a freakin' moron.