Victory over Hezbollah is Far Better than Ceasefire

Fire of Liberty

While Israel is fighting it out with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon(And gaining ground at that) the media and the world community seem to be going into a "ceasefire" frenzy. Now while its great to desire peace for the sake of preventing further bloodshed and death of people its also a way to get a nation destroyed when aggressors like Hezbollah start launching missiles or taking soldiers hostage like they've done in these past 13 days. Even more, if you look at the term "ceasefire" being bandied back and forth in the press and the diplomatic core, you'll discover that it calls for a cessation of fighting but never draws out a peace between the to factions. With Hezbollah having the destruction of Israel in its charter, its pretty much written in stone that Hezbollah will just use this ceasefire as an opportunity to re-organize, bring in new fighters and re-stock their depleted arsenals to come back in several months or years with a far deadlier barrage of missiles and a fervent will to confront Israel.(Much like they did in 2000 and with UNSC Resolution 1559) All in all this call for a ceasefire for the sake of peace is one more way of letting Hezbollah stay on its feet to fight another day. I'd say that Thomas Sowell, columnist, author and senior fellow at the Hoover Institute, makes a good point in his most recent column about the futility of people(MSM and world community)being so committed to peace and willing to draw up such ceasefires when he noted the following:

Take the Middle East. People are calling for a cease-fire in the interests of peace. But there have been more cease-fires in the Middle East than anywhere else. If cease-fires actually promoted peace, the Middle East would be the most peaceful region on the face of the earth instead of the most violent.

He further notes that the only way that you're ever going to create a peaceful solution with regards to any war, in this case the Israel's confrontation against terrorists like Hezbollah, is for one group(Israel preferably) to handily defeat the other.

While we'll never see Hezbollah at the peace table like we saw with Lee at Appomattox or the Japanese on the USS Missouri, it's necessary for the livelihood for the state of Israel, Lebanon, and the overall safety of the world from Islamic terrorism that the IDF ends the existence of Hezbollah or at least put them out of commission for a long time. Therefore the best policy with regards to dealing with Hezbollah is to let the IDF get their job done by rolling the terrorists up where they currently reside. Now while the IDFs operation in Lebanon will be a very tough and bloody operation its a definite must in securing peace for future generation of Israel, Lebanon and the greater Middle East. So I'll continue to cheer on Israel's rollback and hope that they create a situation where the people of Israel are safe from katyushas, Zelzals and terrorism and the state of Lebanon free from "Hezbollahland" in the south. And after reading this piece in the Jerusalem Post, I'm well assured that the Israel Defense Forces are in good hands and will succeed in their mission to route Hezbollah from their dens.