A childish rant requires adult intervention

It is not at all clear to me what Israel thinks it is doing in Lebanon. As Kevin Drum points out, they occupied the country for many years and couldn't root out Hizbollah then. Why would they think they could now? Yes, maybe they can reduce the most dangerous imminent threats from Hizbollah, but do they really need to bomb the hell out of the entire country to do that? Or, is this merely outright revenge? If it's that, why extract your pound of flesh from the people who had nothing to do with it? Maybe this is like kicking the dog because you're mad at your wife, but it certainly seems a bit childish -- and, when scores of innocent people are being killed by a childish rant, some adult needs to step up and intervene.

Ah, but there's the problem. There are no adults available -- certainly not in Washington.