John Sutton's glancing header wide from a McLean cross offered an immediate response, before David Clarkson drove straight at Janos Balogh from distance.
One possibility is that he did not intend to do any such thing, and that Mr Olmert's robust response to Hizbullah's cross-border raid took Mr Nasrallah by surprise.
Defence minister Viscount Astor of Hever said the role of minister for veterans, at present Andrew Robathan, was partly created as a response to calls for greater cross-government co-ordination.