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Why Hezbollah is everyone’s problem
The world is now in the opening stages of yet another contest between the free and unfree. It’s a conflict reaching far and wide, and will last for decades.
Bret StephensContributorIn 2006, Hezbollah launched a guerrilla raid into Israel. It led to a 34-day war that devastated Lebanon, traumatised Israel, and concluded with a UN resolution that was supposed to disarm the terrorist militia and keep its forces far from the border.
The resolution did neither. Instead, a combination of international wishful thinking and the willfulness of Hezbollah’s patrons in Iran have brought us to where we are now – the cusp of a conflict that could dwarf the scale of fighting in the Gaza Strip.
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