The Real Story Within The Story

The story is about Rice's visit to wherever (it says Israel, but other reports say Italy). Its about bringing "lasting peace" to the area as if it can be magically ordained. But that's not what I'm interested in.

Daniel Ayalon, Israel's ambassador to Washington, told The Associated Press that Israel has destroyed about 40 percent of Hezbollah's military capabilities.

"Most of the long-range (missiles) have been hit, a lot of the medium range, but they still have thousands and thousands of rockets, short-range and others," Ayalon said in an interview.[emphasis mine]

My question dear reader is, how do they know? Who's conducting the census of arms? Do they have pix?

My opinion is this is just bullshit the "folks back home" need to hear. No one knows what's been destroyed. Americans attack a building in Beirut. People are killed. How hard is it to count the bodies? But the count will vary from report to report and day to day. That's how chaos affects things.

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