In Their Culture Kidnapping Is Bad? Who Knew?

Meant to call your attention to the front page story in Monday's WaTi: Hezbollah: War With Israel Was A Mistake. The strongest evidence yet that Hezbollah did not help itself with the recent war is that Nasrallah's been forced to apologize for the war to his own people.

"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," he told Lebanon's New TV station.

Speaking of ideological retreats (I hope you're impressed with this segue to an otherwise utterly unrelated story), another blockbuster from Monday: Anglican Leader Says Gays Should Alter Ways For Church. The Archbishop of Canterbury is distancing himself from his own earlier writings in support of homosexual marriage.

"I don't believe inclusion is a value in itself. Welcome is. We don't say 'Come in, and we ask no questions.' I do believe conversion means conversion of habits, behaviors, ideas, emotions," Archbishop Williams told a Dutch journalist.

"Ethics is not a matter of a set of abstract rules, it is a matter of living the mind of Christ. That applies to sexual ethics."