Why I have to watch my blood pressure

While doing my run today (on a treadmill in the fitness center), I watched the news...something I'm careful about doing these days. Unfortunately for me, I saw something that irritated me...alot. A reporter was talking about this:Hezbollah says Israeli response a surprise

BEIRUT, Lebanon - A senior Hezbollah official said Tuesday the guerrillas did not expect
Israel to react so strongly to its capture of two Israeli soldiers.

Mahmoud Komati, deputy chief of the Hezbollah's political arm, also told The Associated Press that his group will not lay down arms.

His comments were the first time that a leader from the Shiite militant group has publicly suggested it miscalculated the consequences of the July 12 cross-border raid in which two Israeli soldiers were captured and three were killed.

"The truth is — let me say this clearly — we didn't even expect (this) response ... that (Israel) would exploit this operation for this big war against us," said Komati.

He said Hezbollah had expected "the usual, limited response" from Israel.

Expliot? Wait one second. Who is doing the exploiting? Komati is admitting that Hezbollah was exploiting a "percieved" weakness (Israel's limited response) to get what they wanted. This is one example of the reason diplomacy doesn't always work. Ace said it best:

Diplomacy is a powerful tool. But it has one key weakness.

The word "No."

If you assume everyone wants peace and to co-exist happily ever after, diplomacy may work. This assumption is wrong in the real world, where there are some who are downright evil.