Endgame Viable

I was home sick yesterday, and I saw a somewhat distressing report on CNN. The British anchorwoman reported that Condoleeza Rice had offered a cease-fire proposal to Lebanon that included an international peacekeeping force and a prisoner swap. Nooooooo! No prisoner swap! Prisoner swap bad! If there’s a prisoner swap, Hezbollah (or whatever’s left of them) will keep right on kidnapping Israelis and Americans and whoever else they feel like kidnapping, knowing that it will achieve their goals (perhaps after a long period of civilian deaths).

After some Google News searching this morning, I’m somewhat relieved to see I can’t corroborate what I saw on CNN yesterday. All I can find are reports that Lebanon’s prime minister proposed a prisoner exchange, but Rice is rejecting their proposal: Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Rejects Rice Proposal. So let’s hope CNN was merely misreporting the facts.