[Washington Post] Charles Krauthammer - Hizballah may have won the propaganda war, but on the ground it lost. Badly. Hizballah lost hundreds of its best fighters. A deeply entrenched infrastructure on Israel's border is in ruins. The great hero has had to go so deep into hiding that Nasrallah has been called "the underground mullah." As the dust settles, the Lebanese are furious at Hizballah for provoking a war that brought them nothing but devastation - and then crowing about victory amid the ruins. The Arabs know where their interests lie. And they do not lie with a Shiite militia that fights for Iran. Hizballah is in no position, either militarily or politically, for another round. Nasrallah's admission that the war was a mistake is an implicit pledge not to repeat it, lest he be completely finished as a Lebanese political figure.
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