I may be late getting to this analysis, though I haven’t seen it anywhere else.

The big question–I’ve heard it from friends and family, on TV, sluicing throught the tubes of the internets–is why did Hezbollah choose to attack Israel now? By which, people are actually asking, why did Iran choose to attack Israel now? Because the whole world knows that Iran pulls the strings that make Hezbollah move.

On the surface the timing of the attack seems illogical  – ...

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But this story (h/t Captain’s Quarters) hints at an answer. In it, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah claims that his group is now the defacto government of Lebanon. Which means, at least in his thinking, Hezbollah has replaced a democratically-elected government that was hostile to Syria and Iran. And given the relative strengths of Hezbollah and the Lebanese army, he’s probably more right than wrong at this point.

[Read the whole thing here.]

Rick Moran: NASRALLAH BELIEVES HE’S IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT

Contributed by Bill Faith on July 22, 2006 at 12:26 PM in Bill Faith, Islamism Delenda Est | Permalink

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