Hezbollah and Friends: A Cancerous Growth Choking the Lebanese State
“Resistance is futile”, so say the fictional villains from the Star Trek universe, The Borg. In Lebanon, resisting the so-called resistance, Hezbollah, is far from futile, it is in fact what I consider a national duty. This cancerous growth has long hidden behind the noble cause of liberating occupied Lebanese territory and defending Lebanon against Israeli aggression to amass quite an arsenal of sophisticated and highly destructive weapons as well as a well trained and experienced soldiery that fought in the futile battles of Syria and Yemen, or so we hear. The alliance of Hezbollah and the Amal Movement have unashamedly and intentionally scuttled any hope of electing a new president for the republic any time soon, an election that is a vital first step along the long and torturous road of reform and recovery. They insist on getting their way or nothing moves forward, they are holding the whole country hostage to their whims and paranoid fears because for the first time in...