Hezbollah provoked the war?

Editor,

Please stop parroting the Bushnik line that "Hezbollah provoked the war." At least read Seymour Hersch's article "WATCHING LEBANON - Washington's interests in Israel's war," in the August 21, 2006, issue of the New Yorker and wake up to the fact that Hezbollah's capture of those Israeli soldiers was used as a pretext by Israel and the Bush administration (a) to prove the concept of destroying Iran's underground facilities from the air, and (b) to eliminate Hezbollah's ability to threaten Israel in retaliation for an American bombing campaign against Tehran. Both of these objectives failed miserably, and still the NYT persists in feeding Bushnik militarist fantasies to the American public instead of leveling, coming clean, and attributing aggression to the real aggressors in this disgusting debacle.