Rice says cease-fire in Lebanon possible in days

Yeah, it's possible that I'll win the lottery in a few days too. Or that Jennifer Love Hewitt will come over to my house for directions to a local diner, fall madly in love with me on the spot and whisk me away to a magical little island where we can make love on the sand and neither of us grows any older for the rest of eternity.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said today that a cease-fire could be reached in Lebanon within days. "This week is entirely possible. Certainly we are talking about days not weeks," she said on the PBS Newshour.

Someone remind me, how long has this Hizbollah / Israel conflict really been going on? A decade or so? Sure, we'll fix it right up in a few days. Just a little talk and a few band-aids and, poof, peace will prevail. You know why this happens? It's the American culture. We're used to everything being solved in the span of a half-hour to two hours on television. We're impatient. We want peace NOW. Not later.