Cardinal's Shadid in Beirut
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Shadid, the recent Pulitzer winner who has covered the region for many years, highlighted civilian casualties in Lebanon at the outset -- an approach common in European papers -- and quickly described the "assymetrical" nature of the battle.
"In a war that has witnessed an escalation each day, the asymmetrical nature of the conflict was laid bare Saturday: For each attack by Hezbollah since it captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid, Israel has inflicted a far greater price," he wrote. "It has systematically dismantled the country's infrastructure, displaced thousands of residents and instilled a new sense of foreboding and fear in the now-deserted streets of this brash, confident city still shadowed by the legacy of Lebanon's 15-year civil war."