Even many former hawks now agree that military escalation wouldn't have won the war.

"We urge the international community to offer direct intervention to stop this Israeli military escalation."

And dismayingly, military escalation has closed down the political track to a settlement.

How do you gauge the cost of a military escalation?

Congress is unlikely to deny the president the money to carry out his military escalation.

"It wants the continuation of the military escalation against our mighty people."

Congress needs to do more than just oppose the latest ill-conceived military escalation.

Administration officials have disagreed over whether negotiations should be supplemented by military escalation.

Don't desert us at this important military escalation within its natural home, the school!

But military escalation is not the best way to achieve those goals.