eudaemonia

Caught off-guard

As I suggested in my earlier post below, Israel's response points to the terrorist's miscalculation. Joel Mowbry, Townhall.com confirms this:

"Ha’aretz today reports that Olmert’s reaction caught both Hezbollah and its Iranian puppetmasters off-guard. Money quote:

“Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, secretary general of Hezbollah, assumed Israel’s response would be of the moderate sort like that following the withdrawal from Southern Lebanon in May 2000. Soon after the abduction, Hezbollah officers turned to (United Nations agency) UNIFIL and suggested a cease-fire as early as that evening. The Israeli response has come as a surprise to Hezbollah and Iranian advisers.”

What this shows is that weakness in the face of low intensity aggression is quickly factored into the terrorist's plans for future attacks. This is a war, as the enemy has declared it decades ago, let's begin to treat it as it really is.

posted by spelunker @ 5:45 AM