A religious militia that calls itself “the party of God”...

Now we’ve seen the Hezbollah leader, Hasan Nasrallah, take all of Lebanon into a devastating, unprovoked war with Israel, just to improve his political standing and take the pressure off Iran. America should be galvanizing the forces of order – Europe, Russia, China & India – into a coalition against these trends. But we can’t. Why? In part, it’s because our President and Secretary of State, although they speak with great moral clarity, have no moral authority. That’s been shattered by their performance in Iraq. The world hates George Bush more than any US President in my lifetime. He is radioactive – and so caught up in his own ideological bubble that he is incapable of imagining or forging alternative strategies. In part, it is also because China, Europe & Russia have become freeloaders off US power. They reap enormous profits from the post-Cold-War order shaped by the US, but rather than become real stakeholders in that order, helping to draw and defend redlines, they duck, mumble, waffle or cut their own deals. This doesn’t bode well for global stability. A religious militia that calls itself “the party of God” takes over a state and drags it into war, using high-tech rockets – mullahs with drones – and the world is paralyzed. Those who ignore this madness will one day see it come to a theater near them.

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Source: IIPM Publication, Editor: Arindam Chaudhuri