Politicians take aim at Olmert

Meretz Chairman Yossi Beilin called for the establishment of a committee to investigate the events of the war. Beilin said there were serious questions to be asked about the preparedness of the home front and how decisions were made leading up to the war.

The questions, he said, were "whether it was possible to prevent the kidnapping of the soldiers, whether the 'Pandora's Box' of Lebanon had to be opened and whether it was possible to reach a deal with Syria and avoid the Hizbullah threat."

Gil Hoffman and Sheera Claire Frenkel

The war in Lebanon doesn't seem to be over just yet.

The unspoken subtext of this is that these committees will also investigate whether Olmert was dancing at the end of the Bush Administration's strings. Other sources have indicated the we were "pushing" Israel to take action in Lebanon. I don't think they will be so much concerned with the actual fact of that, but more with what happened after we went schizophrenic on them and hid behind the UN.

That leads to the other subtext, which is that there seem to be developing cracks in foreign policy in the Bush Administration along the lines of those that led Colin Powell to take a hike. Interesting developments ahead. The real question would be, what will we do should Israel heat things up again in Southern Lebanon?