Andy McCarthy says it all:

Hezbollah wins this big just by being legitmized. Hezbollah is a terrorist organization, not a country. The resolution we are signing on to, however, addresses it as if it were a country. The resolution doesn't purport to direct any UN member nation to make Hezbollah cease firing — least of all Lebanon, the purported sovereign of this territory. Instead, it appeals to Hezbollah directly — in the same paragraph in which it addresses Israel, as if there were no difference in status between the two — and "calls on" it to stand down.

How do we sign onto that? Didn't we just say about 24 hours ago that we are dealing with "Islamo-fascists" who cannot be reasoned with? Yet, recognizing that no one is willing to fight them, we are joining the "international community" in calling on Hezbollah terrorists to stand down? And when they don't what happens? Will we write them a strong letter?

Maybe we should vacate Iraq but have the new Iraqi army and the UN guard the country while we call on al Qaeda to disarm. That's apparently a winning formula, right?

Unbelievable that the Bush administration could even approach signing on to this preposterous ceasefire.

Paul writes over at Powerline:

But why should Israel have been given less than a month to undo six years of Hezbollah entrenchment? We've had several years in Iraq and haven't finished the job. My guess is that the administration just didn't want to take the international heat associated with another month (say) of fighting in Lebanon. If so, that doesn't bode well for its future conduct of the war on terror.

Olmert's government should fall, as it very may well, because of his indecisive and incompetent handling of this war.

And how can President Bush be taken with full seriousness in talking about the war against Islamofascists when he has is now going to restrain Israel from its push to destroy Hezbollah? It's the same Hezbollah that killed 241 U.S. Marines in Beirut in 1983, Mr. President. And now Hassan Nasrallah is going to be able to stand and defiantly claim victory. He stood up to the Israelis and stared them down. To say that Syria and Iran are now feeling emboldened is an understatement.

Unbelievable.

It's difficult to accept the fact that during a week in which a major terrorist plot was disrupted, we have actually suffered a significant setback in our global war against Islamofascists with the passage of this ceasefire resolution. But that is precisely what has occurred.