Tuesday, 15 August 2006
Tally Ho
Contributed by Bill Faith

Dafydd ab Hugh:

Avoiding the patriotic chest-thumping of the Bush administration; dismissing the self-serving doubletalk of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz; brushing off the triumphalist squawking of Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Hezbollah; and shunning the tantrum of defeatism by Jed Babbin and his ilk, let's take a moment to tally up, in as unbiased a fashion as we can, who won, who lost, and in what ways, in the recent dustup between Israel and Hezbollah.

Alas, much of the result is opaque, depending still on future events. But I'll try my best to make predictions.

Let's go through each player in turn, starting with...

[Read on. Long but worthy.]

Contributed by Bill Faith on August 15, 2006 at 05:35 PM in Hezbollah, Iran, Islamism Delenda Est, Israel, Lebanon | Permalink

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