Churchill's jaw-jaw is needed in Lebanon  As Israel and
Hezbollah continue to fight, I'm unlikely to be the first or
only writer to refer to Winston Churchill, who said, "To jaw-
jaw is better than to war- war." Pure pacifism isn't really an
option these days, but I appreciate Churchill's sentiment. If
you talk first, you can almost always maintain the option to
fight later; however, the more you fight the less likely any
possibility of talk becomes.  Just about everyone wants an
immediate cease-fire in Lebanon. In fact, the only holdouts are
Israel and the United States. Israel's position is
understandable and reasonably justified. It's a small country,
surrounded by neighbors that have been traditionally hostile to
its existence. It suffered a cross-border incursion by
Hezbollah, an anti-Israeli militia with thousands of rockets
capable of striking Israeli cities. Israel contends, quite
reasonably, that any other country would respond in the same
way, even though, as it turns out, its course of action is pr