Kathryn, it’s all very well for the Moose to write that (and I agree with much of what he says), and it’s impossible not to be appalled by the predicament in which Israel has been placed, but that does not mean that assessing the Bush administration’s approach to this crisis is as straightforward as he seems to imply. The US, and with varying degrees of enthusiasm, the rest of the West, is involved in a global struggle against Islamic extremism. The question that the White House has to ask itself is whether Israel’s current actions in the Lebanon are helping that wider struggle. I’ve yet to be convinced that they are.