Lebanon

Bush, Condi and Olmert have indeed begun creating a new Mid-East. I fear though it isn't what they visualized. Of course nothing Bush touches seems to come out as he intended. Israel has lost this war. They lost it when they killed those UN observers at an outpost that's been in the same spot for 40 years. They lost it in the media frenzy that's now known as Qana. They lost it with the grossly disproportionate response to tit for tat exchanges.

Israel lost the support of progressives by adopting the Bush doctrine. They lost the war mostly though, by radicalizing dozens of new Hezbollah guerillas with each bombing of Lebanon. Every Arab in the region is now sworn to destroy Israel and the strides toward democracy and statehood being made in Beirut went up in flames. It doesn't matter what they've accomplished militarily because you don't defeat insurgencies militarily.

That is the failure of the Bush doctrine.