Framework Clarification, Issual Underlyingness

George W Bush's third favourite doggie, after Barney and Olmert bar Sharon, has been for a bit of a frolic round the master's ankles. Bush informed a press conference that he and Tony had agreed that there is some necessity for a "clear framework for cessation of hostilities on an urgent basis", rather than an immediate one, always provided it doesn't put the Israeli government to any inconvenience. Tony agreed with him, saying that steps were being taken to bring about the "cessation of hostilities we all want to see", namely the one that will best suit Washington, Whitehall and Olmert bar Sharon. Tony feels "deeply for people in Lebanon and people in Israel who are the innocent casualties of this conflict", of course he does. Tony would like the conflict to "stop now", and the peace plan, which is actually a far superior peace plan to the one Condoleezza Rice torpedoed in Rome, will practically help the conflict to stop now just as soon as the underlying issues have been resolved. The underlying issues could be resolved as early as next week; at least, those underlying issues that matter to Washington, Whitehall and Olmert bar Sharon. Bush wants a meeting of the UN security council on Monday, so that the organisation can once more prove its relevance by doing as it is told. Tony agrees with him. Bush wants an international "stability force", perhaps even a coalition of the willing, to be introduced into the area. This is because "the US is committed to using all of its influence to seize the moment to build a stable and democratic Middle East". However, Hizbullah, who are very nasty people indeed, are thought to have up to fifteen thousand rockets, against which the world's sole military superpower finds itself helpless, even when backed by its third favourite doggie: the peace plan will work only "if Hizbullah are prepared to allow it to work".