Does anyone really think the country that spent millions of dollars building explosive-laden pagers that blinded and maimed children, then spent tens of millions of dollars gloating about it in public, gives a solitary thought to the cost-benefit ratio?

They have rules that say it's okay to kill 100 civilians as long as a single "operative" is also killed.

This is a country whose leadership cares only about executing terror. Just like the USA.

Yet the pager attack did help wipe out most of the Hezbollah leadership and shortened the war overall.

Without it, Lebanon might be looking a lot more like Gaza right now.