US cool to immediate Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire

The United States declined to join calls for an immediate ceasefire between Israel
and Hezbollah, insisting such a pact would only be a temporary fix for the worsening crisis. "What ... everybody wants to see is a cessation of violence," said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack. "But nobody wants to see a cessation of violence done in such a way that you end up back where we are today...