WWIII forever?

The "War on Terror" is alive and well and living in the Middle East.\nUprooting terrorism from the face of the globe is a noble cause, but -- similar to America's Iraq misadventure and Israel's history of violence -- destroying nations to "eradicate" the terrorists only further emboldens terrorism as a military tool because of the collateral damage in dismantled infrastructures and murdered humans.\nPolitical analysts, from Newt Gingrich to diplomats, like the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, have declared in the last week-to-months that the international community's "War on Terror" is akin to "World War III" -- a new kind of battle against a very different kind of enemy.\nIf so, 20th century military tactics (i.e. transforming once "stable" countries like Lebanon and democratic public bodies like Hamas to rubble) have no place in humanity's first 21st-century war.\n"World War III" requires nations to win the hearts and minds of their global neighbors using every last diplomatic tool in the negotiating shed because terrorism is not a country, but a way of life, and wars are never "won" in the hearts and minds of humanity.\nIsrael might not respect the democratic process or the end result of its neighbor's national elections, but isolation and methodical destruction of its neighbor's quality of life as "diplomatic" tools further instigates its neighbors' willingness to support terrorist-like retaliation, and to applaud terrorism as a tool of national defense. \nAs democratic governments, the Palestinian Authority and Lebanon need to utilize the international press, United Nations and anyone else who will listen to address their continued grievances with Israel -- like the imprisonment of about 10,000 Palestinians, including about 500 women and children.\nIsrael, unless it truly seeks to inflame "World War III," needs to withdraw from Lebanon and the Gaza Strip before helping the international community rebuild its neighbors' property, national esteem and sense of value within the world. \nIran and Syria, unless they truly seek to destroy their own land and murder their own people, need to pressure themselves, Hamas and Hezbollah to recognize Israel's right to exist.\nContinued biting of thumbs at one another is as sexy as a nuclear holocaust.\nMight our international leaders demonstrate restraint, patience and determination to solve their global neighbor-to-neighbor conflict that they themselves perpetuate?