Going for the gold in Lebanon

Full scale invasion on the way:

Artillery, rockets, tanks and Humvees are massing on Lebanon’s southern border as Israel reveals the true extent of its ambitions. It is determined not merely to punish Hezbollah, but to destroy it once and for all as a military threat.

“As long as Hezbollah is in the south of Lebanon this will lead to a destabilised region,” Tzipi Livni, the Israeli Foreign Minister, told The Times. Taking heart from President Bush’s stance that Israel had the right to defend itself, she said that Ehud Olmert, the Prime Minister, would not rest until the Shia group was removed from southern Lebanon.