War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

From one end of the Cable TV universe to the other, the anchors are asking all parties involved in the Israeli-Hezbollah war the wrong question. I would estimate that if you watched any cable news program, you would hear the reporters or anchors ask someone about a timeline for a cease-fire at least 5 times an hour. This basic lack of understanding is quite shocking for anyone who supposes that they are capable of digesting the happenings of this world, then wrapping them up in high tech graphics and passing it off as news.

If the world wants the fighting and killing to stop, it has to ask just one thing. If tomorrow morning Hezbollah, through Syria, tells the Israeli government that it will return their two captured soldiers and stop firing rockets across the border into Israel, the fighting would end by noon. That is a fact, and to pretend otherwise is just a waste of breath.

That is what I believe secretary of State Rice told the Hezbollah representative in Syria today. He is reported to have declined the offer.

What if a third party were to send in say 2,000 troops to keep Hezbollah from attacking Israel? Would that be a possible solution? Nope.

The UN has had 2,000 'blue helmeted boobs on the ground' since 1978. The UN is worse than useless, it proposes solutions that serve only to make people feel better. Not only don't those solutions work, they make them much worse by ignoring why the problem exists in the first place.

Hezbollah is evil. Not sort of evil, plain old standard run of the mill evil. Please don't comment that they build schools and hospitals, the Nazis built all kinds of schools, hospitals and every other type of infrastructure you can think of. The also killed almost 20 million people, don't talk to me about schools and hospitals.

Hezbollah may want to talk once they get low on rockets, but I doubt it. My terms for a cease fire would be this - unconditional surrender.

If you don't like those terms, you will hate the alternative.

William T Sherman had it right, you called the tune, you pay the fiddler.