A miscalculation? Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah: “We did not think, even 1 percent, that the capture would lead to a war at this time and of this magnitude. You ask me, if I had known on July 11 … that the operation would lead to such a war, would I do it? I say no, absolutely not.”
Update: From TPM Reader JG: “I read his statement more like a PR maneuver: all the destruction is a result of Israel’s unreasonable reaction. He would never, ever have dreamt that the kidnapping might have brought that kind of harm to his poor, beloved Lebanon.”
