There has been a spate of news articles today saying that US and Israeli intelligence have been taken by surprise at the sophistication of some of the rockets that Hezbollah have been using. It is alleged that these more advanced weapons have been supplied by Iran and that they raise the possibility that Iranian weapons development is further along than they thought.

This is all coming from basically the same people who assured us that they knew all about the Iraqi WMDs. We know how that turned out. I smell spin. The US and Israel have been trying to stampede the rest of the world about Iran's nuclear development program without much success. Crying wolf worked so well last time. Let's do it again.