Anything else is ignorant, wishful thinking.

 Israel appears to be concentrating its current activities in Lebanon on destroying Hezbollah supplies and removing Hezbollah leadership from the battlefield.  The principal tools being used are superb intelligence coupled with equally superb air power, supplemented with limited ground operations designed to further weaken Hezbollah capabilities.  This differs, at least for now, from its campaign in Gaza, where it has been actively attempting to destroy Hamas rank and file, as well as its leadership.  It remains to be seen how much of its current ground campaign in Lebanon is preparation for a broader attack and what the objectives of that campaign might be.

The question immediately before us, presently, is how Israel will respond to the most recent Iranian provocations - ineffective though they have been.  Some American observers believe that Israel is intent on waging its campaign against Iran with the objective of freeing the Iranian people from their radical leadership.  I hope that is so.  If it is, I agree with the analysts that expect Israel to avoid the oil fields because that would adversely impact the lives of the Iranian people.  Were I influential in their decision-making, I would be arguing for a massive strike on their nuclear facilities, even though the Biden Administration appears to be vigorously and mindlessly arguing against that approach.  My rationale being that a conflict with Iran after they have a nuclear capability is going to be far more painful than it would be now.  Unlike Biden, I believe the Iranian leadership when it daily tells us that they intend to destroy both Israel and America.

I argue that it is time to understand that the current leadership in Iran is dedicated to destroying America.  I do not believe that the Iranian people share that objective.  I do not want to go to war anywhere with anyone,  War is a stupid activity, but if we become involved in war, I firmly believe that we have no choice but to see it though to victory.  Appeasement is never an acceptable strategy.  No matter how we might want to deny it, we are currently ineffectively engaged in numerous wars, to include one with the radical leadership in Teheran.  We must face up to it now, if we are to minimize the costs in blood and treasure that we will inevitably incur.  Anything else is ignorant, wishful thinking.