Syria expert Josh Landis of the Univesity of Oklahoma provides this comment from a former US ambassador to an Arab country revealing how pitifully weak the Bush-Lobby-War Party line is

First, the US is in a weaker position to influence the outcome of this crisis than any time in the last three decades. Our influence in the region couldn't be lower.

Second, I do not see how Hezbullah can be defeated, much less dismantled.

I fear that our policy has become so misguided that we will end up only making matters worse. We don't know what the situation will look like in a month, but it is liable to be very bad for Arab moderates and for the US

The US/Israel - A Troubling "Aliance"

⁷For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads, it shall yield no meal; if it were to yield, foreigners would devour it.

⁸Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the nations as a useless vessel.

⁹For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild ass wandering alone