The United States is deploying additional forces to the eastern Mediterranean, including marines, directly citing the security situation between Israel and Lebanon and with the explicit goal of getting Hezbollah to back down. This is, in my opinion, perhaps the least credible threat the United States could have possibly employed. American marines in Lebanon specifically have a rather touchy history, and sending marines into Lebanon during an election year would be political suicide. Of s larger concen though, arms shipments reportedly accelerated from the United States to Israel drastically over the past month or so. Furthermore, the United States has said that they are unfreezing part of the one weapons shipment to Israel which had been frozen. The United States has maintained that they do not want a full scale war to break out between Israel and Hezbollah, but the United States iscertainly helping to facilitate a potential Israeli invasion of Lebanon.