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To: LindyBill who wrote (251717)5/26/2008 11:48:49 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 793799
 
Hizballah has won a major victory, but there is no victory that cannot be reversed. It is certainly worth trying, in order not to eliminate the Hizballah threat but at least to make it harder for Hizballah to obtain arms, in the hope that the Sunnis, and the Druze, and the Christians are now arming themselves, having learned a lesson, and will, if the Syrian-Iranian support for Hizballah can be stopped, and arms shipments ended or interdicted more successfully, be ready to take on a weakened Hizballah and to teach it a lesson that will take a long time to unlearn.

The Druze don't need any lessons. It has not been widely reported (since Hizbullah controls most of the media in Lebanon) but while Hizbullah was waltzing into West Beirut unapposed, they also attacked the Druze strongholds in the Chouf Mountains and got their butts kicked. But the Druze need armed allies to make headway.
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