Hezbollah appears to have miscalculated its fight against Israel

LLords of Arles are Hassan Nasrallah is not known for expressing remorse, but he did in 2006, weeks after a war in Lebanon that killed more than 1,100 people. The fighting began when Hezbollah, the Shiite militia and political party he leads, kidnapped two Israeli soldiers in a raid. Mr. Nasrallah said he was surprised by the ferocity of the response and called the raid a mistake. “If I had known … that the operation would lead to such a war, would I have done it? I say no, absolutely not,” he told a reporter.