For Hezbollah, Claiming Victory Could Be Costly

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/world/middleeast/14lebanon.html?scp=1&sq=for%20Hezbollah,&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:38 AM
Subject: re: For Hezbollah, Claiming Victory Could Be Costly
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

    If as you write "the prospect of [Hezbollahs members'] arrest is almost impossible to fathom", then the crisis in Lebanon is not potential; it is upon us. Where the central government can't enforce the law on its citizens, the state has failed. We have experience with such failed states in Somalia and in Afghanistan. They provide incubators for terrorism and piracy. Lebanon is a bleeding wound; the status quo shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

Barry Levine