Originally Posted by bellskids

Also Hezbollah has a handful of seats in an admittedly small parliament. By contrast in France the National Front gets a huge proportion of the votes and a significant number of seats in government. Would you want to wipe them out too being as they are extreme right wingers and not particuarly fond of Jews? It is better to give these people an alternative to Hezbollah. If we helped the Lebanese government become self sufficient and able to provide the buses, hospitals, schools etc that its people need and want then Hezbollah becomes less and less attractive and less and less relevant to the lives of ordinary Lebanese citizens.