Thursday August 17, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

For the Western world, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
For the Arab and Moslem world, truth is in the eye of the believer.

In the eyes of Shiites - especially Iran, Hezbollah won the conflict with Israel.
Hezbollah won because they are still standing.
Hezbollah won because some of the battles with Israel took hours and even days.

There is no way of better showing the relationship between Iran and Hezbollah than by quoting the Supreme Leader of Iran, the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei.
In an interview with Al Manar, Hezbollah TV, Khamenei praised Hezbollah and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
He said: "Your unprecedented holy war and steadfastness are beyond the limits of my description. It's a divine victory. It is a victory of Islam."

Lowest estimates say that Hezbollah had 1500 fighters.
That means that a small cadre of Hezbollah fighters held their own against the great Israeli Army.
When you look at it that way, when that is the only way you look at it, it is a victory.