Nasrallah's Pyrrhic victory

You'd think the people whose hearts bleed for the poor Palestinians and Lebanese would realize that who is really to blame for Lebanon's suffering, especially since they're so quick to claim that the U.S. created Saddam and Al Qaeda by supporting them in fights against our common enemies.

Generally, it's not a good idea to attack a country with an air force if you don't have one, and it's worse to assure that the battleground will be on your own territory. Hitler was winning when he invaded Poland and France and was launching buzz bombs on England, but when the Allies were able to bomb German cities, everybody knew the jig was up. Hezbollah did for Lebanon what Hitler did for East Germany. Not only was it hammered by the enemy, it ended up unliberated for the next forty five years.

Now we're being told that we should do the same for Iraq by pulling out our troops and leaving the way open for Iran to move in. This "peace movement" seems determined to make sure that our allies and those we have liberated end up worse off for our having helped them. They never count the corpses in Vietnam caused by our withdrawal and unwillingness to support the South when the North violated the treaty that ended the war.