US Security Assistance To Lebanon Already Being Turned Against Israel
I honestly thought that the resigned “well that was hard to predict” post about security assistance to Lebanon would come next month, when Hezbollah will probably win the election and assume control over “all the security and administrative apparatus of the state.” It’s been obvious since 2007 - when the Pentagon got the brilliant idea to modernize the Lebanese military - that US weapons would eventually be turned against Israel.
I should probably say “turned against Israel again,” since the exact same thing happened with the hundreds of tons of weapons that the US gave to Fatah troops in Gaza. It’s almost as if there’s a flaw in the Arabist logic of arming “least of all evils” Arab regimes even while those regimes incite anti-Western hatred.
Lebanon is already a country where the elites have switched from honoring anti-Syrian martyrs to celebrating the freedom of Hezbollah-linked child murdering filthbags. Some of that has to do with how Hezbollah’s taken to killing people who attend Hariri memorials. But