Hezbollah admits their error ...

Sheik Nasrallah has finally admitted that he made a serious miscalculation regarding Israel here, which only serves to vindicate ATY's position that Israel will use force to send the message that they will not be passive about their continuing right to exist.

I was not correct in my analysis because I am a clairvoyant, but because I understand the history of the Middle-East and can contextualise the position of Israel within that region. Too much of the common liberal/socialist and anti-Israel viewpoint is coloured by a predilection for the normative and a basic and simplistic knee-jerk anti-colonialism.

My ethical construct may be normative, but in terms of security, military and geo-strategic issues we can only analyse and make predictions based on positive reasoning. In the end, I do not eschew empiricism entirely, but merely want to bring it into counterbalance when we make public policy.

On a direct note, it is nice to see that the UN is now taking aim at problems in The Lebanon. It is too bad they are 30 years too late ...