Hezbollah's orcs and goblins
With typical glibness, the BBC reports the rolling coup in the Lebanon like this: "Thousand of supporters of Hezbollah and its pro-Syrian allies in Lebanon have spent the night camped out in Beirut, to protest against the government." There is another way of expressing "supporters of Hezbollah" and it is "Iran", while "pro-Syrian" is, in fact, "Syrian". Both Iran and Syria are attacking Lebanon with the intention of destroying it and their proxies are the black clad followers of the malevolent Nasrallah.
Prime Minister Fouad Siniora is hopelessly inept in dealing with the forces now arrayed against him and he reminds one more and more of those timid European leaders of the 1930s who fretted and fumbled as the Shadow loomed over their lands. Time to turn to Tolkien: "It needs but one foe to breed a war, not two, Master Warden," answered Eowyn. "And those who have not swords can still die upon them." Lord of the Rings, Book III, The Return of the King. Tolkien (J.R.R.) is gone but Totten (Michael J.) is with us and his blog on the Lebanese crisis is a must read.
