The war on terror is over

Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem post has a must-read breakdown of the UN backed cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah/Lebanon. In short, she argues passionately that this agreement (codified in the form of a UN resolution) represents a catastrophic loss for Israel and the US and a victory for Hezbollah. Sadly, she's right. The Bush administration has handed a terrorist organization a victory, and in doing so has effectively ended the war on terror. My faith in Bush's resolve and leadership with respect to the greatest threat our country now faces has been utterly shattered.

Why, why, why can't we learn from history? Diplomatic compromises with Hitler in the 1930s cost us dearly in the 1940s. The folly of attempting to broker a lasting peace with a bunch of Islamic terrorists who will stop at nothing to kill as many Jews and take as much land as they can should be even more apparent to us now than the futility of negotiating with Hitler was to the leaders of the day in the late 1930s. I fear that in the years to come, we too will pay dearly for our desire to appease the appeasors of the world.