The radio just quoted Israel; "Calming border towns with artillery fire."

[benburch]

Okay, what a mealy-mouthed collection of weasel-words that one was.

Yeah, the tomb is a really calm place.

Reminds me of "We had to destroy the village in order to save it," except less honest.

[karlrschneider]

1. Beatings will continue until morale improves...

:eyes:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. Calming the crying baby with a pillow over it's face.

[originalpckelly]

3. We are sending people off to die in a war...

in order to keep people from dying.

[sueragingroz]

4. That is terribly enlightened thinking - calm with artillary.

:eyes: :crazy:

[SlipperySlope]

5. It is calm when hezbollah stops attacking Israel.

Things are not "calm" while rockets are free to fly from Lebanon into Israel.

Israel did not want it to come to this, but a ground invasion appears to be the next step necessary to bring calm.

[benburch]

8. You are missing the point here.

I am talking about the Weasel-words.

If you are extinguishing all life in these border towns, and pulverizing everything into gravel to remove any trace of a chance that Hezzbolla could possibly be there or use those towns, SAY SO.

Because it is entirely clear that is the intention of the shelling.

Don't sugar coat your war. Say what you are doing in plain words, and say why you are doing it in plain words.

[madrchsod]

9. invasion to bring calm?

isn`t that what condi said?

[CuteNFuzzy]

11. "Israel did not want it to come to this"

oh really

[izzie]

6. You know just watching the 3 cables it looks like this to me.

A well outfitted military which look like our Am. troops that have been on TV for 3 years moving in to a country with no military at all and driving families from their homes and running for their lives. Taking two men as prisoners does not even hit a bell in my head. This looks like one sided aggression, and done with Bush saying it is fine. I see the whole Islamic world turning against us and Israel. I think this is even a bigger error than us going into Iraq.

[NNN0LHI]

7. It will become calm when Israel controls all of Lebanon's water I betcha

Thats where this seems headed.

Don

[htuttle]

10. Define 'controls'

[NNN0LHI]

12. Definition

http://www.answers.com/topic/controllability

con·trol (kən-trōl')

tr.v., -trolled, -trol·ling, -trols.

To exercise authoritative or dominating influence over; direct. See synonyms at conduct.

To adjust to a requirement; regulate: controlled trading on the stock market; controls the flow of water.

To hold in restraint; check: struggled to control my temper.

To reduce or prevent the spread of: control insects; controlled the fire by dousing it with water.

To verify or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or by comparing with another standard.

To verify (an account, for example) by using a duplicate register for comparison.