Michael Totten: “Hezbollah’s “victory” in Beirut is not all it seems”

At Michael Totten:

Obama’s language is derived from those corners of the left that claim Hezbollah is only interested in winning the Shia a larger share of the political process. Never mind the guns, it’s essentially a social welfare movement, with schools and clinics! – and its own foreign policy, intelligence services and terror apparatus, used at the regional, international and now domestic level. But the solution, says, Obama, channeling the man he fired for talking to Hamas, is diplomacy.

Sandmonkey looks at the situation in Beirut (with a mix of seriousness and humor).

Meanwhile, Hezbollah is surging in Lebanon.  Good thing those UN weapons sanctions worked so well.  I actually met a French army officer assigned as UN overseer last summer and he assured me, despite everything I was reading, that the situation was well under control.