President Willing to Delude Himself About Other People’s Wars Too

President Bush asserted yesterday that Hezbollah was defeated in its month-long conflict with Israel, casting the fighting that killed hundreds of Lebanese and Israeli civilians as part of a wider struggle “between freedom and terrorism.”

So what you’re telling us is that in a seemingly endless conflict against an enemy to poorly-defined and decentralized to be actually defeated in one campaign, you can just “assert” victory and then stop fighting? Dude, President Bush, where were you three years ago?

Hezbollah the Loser in Battle, Bush Says [WP]