Here’s the really unseemly thing about these vicious, genocidal Islamic lunatics – total ingrates:
What does a misguided American administration have to do to get some love from these people? They kept Israel leashed during the entire war – no attacks on Lebanese infrastructure being used by Hezbollah, no attacks against Hezbollah infrastructure that was connected to the government, etc. Israel couldn’t get Nasrallah while he was in Beirut because Israeli attacks on Beirut were – wait for it – being strongly condemned by the State Department. And still nothing.
Not that we’re surprised. If Hezbollah ever acknowledged that the IDF would have dismantled them but for the US, people might ask just how close the IDF actually came? Answer: very close. So close that Nasrallah is not sure he wants to test his luck again. Of course, Iran might make him anyway – depends on how much heat they’re feeling for their nuclear program – but wouldn’t someone who’s constructing a slick museum about his “divine victory” want to ride Allah’s good graces all the way into Tel Aviv?
Incidentally, there are some particularly zealous anti-Israel leftists who really, really wish that Hezbollah had achieved a great military victory. You know what the problem with that is? The part of history when Nasrallah was crawling to Arab leaders begging them to have the US call the IDF off.
References:
* Hezbollah’s Creepy New Museum [TNR]
* Hezbollah Probably Lost the War, But They May Never Have Been In It To Win [MR]
* Nasrallah: Hezbollah Doesn’t Want Another Great Victory Over the Zionists [MR]
* Hezbollah to Arab Countries: We’re Losing the War. Quick, Someone Impose a Ceasefire. [MR]
Previously:
* Mere Rhetoric: Nasrallah Is More Honest About Iran Than The British Press
* Hezbollah To Lebanon: Nice Country You Got Here… Be a Real Shame If Anything Happened To It
* Olmert: Hezbollah Got Trounced
Cross-posted to:
* The Astute Bloggers
* Israpundit
