Platitudes about the futility of war are ageless. This war like all others will end someday. Preferably after we win.
The war on terror is necessary and will continue regardless of platitudes written by long dead philosophers or for that matter living ones.
The strategy of the war against islamo fascism is progressing however slowly yet meticulously in our favor.
I see Israel is making great strides today. Tneir progress in reducing Lebanon to a mere afterthought in terms of substantive infrastructure is well underway.
They will have their way with Lebanon for awhile and then the blue helmeted UN will move into a buffer zone large enought to keep those Katyusha missiles out of range. Hezbollah will have had its nads cut off for a while anyway.
Collateral casualties? yes. Fortunes of war merely. Let the cliches about the horrors go on.
All that matters is that we win.
Israel/U.S ....1... Hezbollah Zip/zero/nada. Iraqi insurgency.....given pause to think that we are not backing down. They now simply kill each other at a frightening rate. Even that will eventually grow old to them.