John Robb has an "inside source" that says the 82nd Airborne will be deployed to Lebanon soon. This echoes speculation in Harpers that US Forces will be put in due to a lack of other countries feeling like putting their kids on the line to solve other peoples' problems.

Robb:

However, that won't work since Hezbollah won't comply. Their guerrillas will fight the effort and missiles will continue to fly. The result will be a widening of the war to include Syria and Iran to get at the "real sources" of the conflict...

This is something to watch for. This is something we should try NOT to do as a country. There's no benefit to us to getting involved here as a third party, and plenty of danger. Sadly, I think the political dynamics here are such that there will be no major mainstream opposition to such a deployment, and non-establishment action (e.g. protest, etc) won't start hitting where it hurts until things widen futher and there's a need for a draft or something. At which point...