Hezbollah’s motivations
Friday, 28 July 2006 | 112 readers so far
In the Company of Soldiers has an excellent report from Stratfor that discusses the mindset of Hezbollah. Entirely worth reading. Here is a small excerpt:
That pedantic lesson complete, we can now locate Hezbollah’s ideology and intentions more carefully. Hezbollah is a Shiite radical group that grew out of the Iranian revolution. However, there is a tension in its views, because it also is close to Syria. As such, it is close to a much more secular partner, more in the Nasserite tradition domestically. But it also is close to a country that views Lebanon, Jordan and Israel as part of greater Syria, the Syria torn apart by the British and French.
Go read it all. Perspective on the whole Israel/Lebanon/Palestine greater Middle East can be found.
1 July 28th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Elizabeth says:
That was an interesting article. There’s no question there are a multitude of interests involved in the Middle East…it can get overwhelming to try and sort it all out so what I concentrate on is what would be the sane thing for the U.S. to do given all the competing interests in that region?