Originally Posted by Kangaroo Don
A US official tells The Times of Israel that the Biden administration understands and accepts what Israel is trying to accomplish with a limited ground incursion into Lebanon

Hezbollah is a well-trained militia, believed to have tens of thousands of fighters and an arsenal of 150,000 rockets and missiles.
Originally Posted by Kangaroo Don
  • Hezbollah -- still standing still firing

Israel has Unsuccessful track record
1. made a unilateral withdrawal in 2000
2. The last round of fighting in 2006 ended in a stalemate.

In a TV interview aired on Lebanon's New TV station on August 27, 2006 Nasrallah said that he would not have ordered the capture of two Israeli soldiers if he had known it would lead to such a war: "We do not think, even one percent, that the capture led to a war at this time and of this magnitude.