This is very, very bad:

Israeli tanks and troops today invaded southern Lebanon after Hizbullah captured two soldiers and killed several others. The Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, described the capture of the soldiers an “act of war” by Lebanon, with today’s developments compounding the ongoing political crisis over an abducted Israeli soldier being held in Gaza.

Palestinian militants holding Corporal Gilad Shalit have demanded that all Palestinian women and young people held in Israeli jails be freed in exchange for his release.

The Bush administration blamed Syria and Iran for today’s kidnappings and violence, calling for the immediate and unconditional release of the two soldiers.

Guess the road map to peace has hit a dead end now. To make matters even worse, we are condemning other countries in the actions of Lebanon today:

The United States blamed Syria and Iran on Wednesday for the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah militants and an eruption of violence along the southern border of Lebanon.

The White House called for the immediate and unconditional release of the two soldiers.

“We condemn in the strongest terms Hezbollah’s unprovoked attack on Israel and the kidnapping of the two Israeli soldiers,” National Security Council spokesman Frederick Jones said as President Bush flew here for a visit. He said Hezbollah had also launched unprovoked rocket attacks on civilian targets in Israel as part of its offensive.

Israel sent troops, warplanes, tanks and gunboats in a military offensive into southern Lebanon after Hezbollah militants crossed into Israel and captured two Israeli soldiers. Israel said seven of its soldiers had been killed in the violence.

Remember how people against Iraq said the entire area was on the verge of “descending into chaos”? Well it seems that is now happening. I won’t say this is all the fault of our failed policy in Iraq, but our foreign policy as a whole has been damaging to the entire Middle East. With this escalation of violence with our ally Israel, I wonder how long before our military is involved. Even worse – how long before Iran really gets involved? If they weren’t involved already, the fact that our government has pointed the blame finger to them will surely provoke their getting involved now.

Wow – don’t you just wish our only problems were a President getting a blow job?