Today brings news that Lebanese terror group Hezbollah is gearing up for a war with Israel in order to relieve some of the pressure on the Assad regime in Syria. For a long time, Syria has been the patron of Hezbollah, with Syria supplying weapons and financing to the terror group. Iran has also been a major patron of the group and has used Syria as the highway into Lebanon to get the supplies there. A loss of the Assad regime would be a terrible blow to Hezbollah. This explains the groups desire to take attention off of the slaughter being carried out by Assad against his own people.
Sadly, it is the slow pace of Western response that is providing Hezbollah with the time to decide upon war and then to actually move ahead. Were there to be military strikes against he Assad regime, it would be too late for the Hexbollah move to work. On the other hand, if the US and NATO have no intention to do anything about Assad, then it would probably be best for them all to just shut up. There is no reason to egg on Hezbollah to act if the whole thing is a charade.
It would be nice if the USA could provide clear and decisive leadership on this issue. Sadly, it seems that the only place Obama can be decisive is when he is issuing regulations that kill jobs or slow economic growth in the USA.
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