Jerusalem

WHEN GEORGE W. BUSH SAID that the world would eventually come to realize that Hezbollah lost its month-long war with Israel, he probably had no idea that this realization would come so quickly–or that it would come directly from the mouth of Hezbollah General Secretary Hassan Nasrallah.

Nasrallah told a Lebanese TV audience last night that had he had known that the operation to take two Israeli soldiers would end as it did, then he not have taken that course of action. “If there was a one percent possibility,” he said. “We would not have done that. We would not have done any capturing.”