Monday, August 28, 2006

Lebanon Ooops

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: "A miscalculation? Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah: 'We did not think, even 1 percent, that the capture would lead to a war at this time and of this magnitude. You ask me, if I had known on July 11 ... that the operation would lead to such a war, would I do it? I say no, absolutely not.'

Update: From TPM Reader JG: 'I read his statement more like a PR maneuver: all the destruction is a result of Israel's unreasonable reaction. He would never, ever have dreamt that the kidnapping might have brought that kind of harm to his poor, beloved Lebanon.'"

Gee. And blowing up two buildings and killing three thousand Americans surely wouldn't cause the U.S. to lash out. Would it?

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