Hezbollah held a big "victory" rally in Beirut yesterday. Sheik Nasrallah says his group is re-armed and has 20,000 missiles on hand. More importantly, he says his group will not disarm unless the government of Lebanon is "strong". My guess is that he will not consider the Lebanese government "strong" until he is at its head.

I hate to agree with Leftist columnist Robert Kuttner, but he is right about the uniformly bad military options we face when considering action against Iran. We cannot stop their nuclear program with airpower alone, and to attack them (an act of war) without the resources and the will to carry through with a total war against not only the Iranians, but all our Islamofascist enemies, would create far more harm than good.

Contrary to earlier reports, Hamas will not recognize Israel as a pre-condition for participating in a unity government with Fatah in the Palestinian territories.

Bill Kristol and Frederick Kagan at the Weekly Standard say there is now an almost universal consensus on expanding the size of the U.S. Army, except inside the Administration. They are right, and the shortsightedness of the Administration on this issue will prove tragic for our country in the years to come.

Probably the most disheartening news of the week is the story of Pakistan's surrender to the Taliban in Waziristan, which is one of the mountainous tribal regions in the northwest portion of the country. While Pakistani government officials and their American allies in the Administration may try to make it seem as if this is a chance for the tribal leaders to clean their own house, it really amounts to ceding the territory to the extremists. Al Qaeda and the Taliban now have a safe-haven, nearly the size of New Jersey, in which to reconstitute their terrorist training camps and plan, train for, and launch attacks in Afghanistan and around the world. Once again, George W. Bush has gambled on being able to fight this war in a limited way and is in danger of losing. The major global war will probably not be fought on his watch, but it is coming. Perhaps it will come when Pakistan falls into the hands of the Islamofascists, perhaps sometime later or from some other cause. But it is coming.