Nasrallah Tacitly Apologizes and Admits Defeat

by Michael J. Totten

Hassan Nasrallah sounds like your typical delusional Middle East despot when he boasts that Hezbollah “won” the war against Israel. He has a problem, though. Hezbollah lives in Lebanon, not in Iraq, Egypt, or Syria. Mainstream Lebanese culture is too well-educated and democratic to fall for that kind of alternate-universe propaganda.

Today he all but admitted on New TV that Hezbollah blew it.

“[W]e did not believe, even by one percent, that the captive operation would result in such a wide-scale war, as such a war did not take place in the history of wars. Had we known that the captive operation would result in such a war we would not have carried it out at all.”

If the latest round against Israel were such a great epic victory, why say he wouldn’t have started it if he would have known how it would turn out?