Hezbollah seems to be now so disoriented and enervated that it may not be able to mount a counteroffensive, delaying or even foreclosing on an Israeli ground invasion into southern Lebanon to enforce the United Nations resolutions neither the U.N. nor the Lebanese government observe.

That would be a happy outcome for the West. Western democracies squirm with discomfort whenever Israel vigorously exercises its right to self-defense, but the group it is presently dismantling with extreme precision is a terrorist sect with Western blood on its hands. Israel is meting out long-delayed justice not just in its own name but ours, too. And for this generous dispensation, Israel gets nothing but grief from its supposed allies.